O Partido Comunista dos EUA (CPUSA) apoia a reeleição de Barack Obama
A culpa do nos sobreendividarmos é de quem nos emprestou o dinheiro.
Não mexerei um palito pela blogueira cubana, diz Fernando Morais. No Fórum Social, jornalista e escritor especialista em Cuba diz que ajudar Yoani Sánchez é ficar contra revolução. Segundo ele, conquistas sociais do regime importam mais que liberdade para criticar, o que só interessa ao ‘inimigo’ EUA. Cético com política externa americana,
in Correio do Brasil de 27/01/2012
Nota: Yoani Sánchez na Wikipedia; o blogue Generacion Y de Yoani Sánchez
While Interviewee 17 was in the North Korean Army, his unit was dispatched to widen the highway between Pyongyang and the nearby port city of Nampo. They were demolishing a vacated house in Yongkang county, Yongkang district town, when in a basement between two bricks they found a Bible and a small notebook that contained 25 names, one identified as pastor, two as chon-do-sa (assistant pastors), two as elders, and 20 other names, apparently parishioners, identified by their occupations.(…)
In November 1996, the 25 were brought to the road construction site. Four concentric rectangular rows of spectators were assembled to watch the execution. Interviewee 17 was in the first row. The five leaders to be executed—the pastor, two assistant pastors, and two elders—were bound hand and foot and made to lie down in front of a steam roller. This steam roller was a large construction vehicle imported from Japan with a heavy, huge, and wide steel roller mounted on the front to crush and level the roadway prior to pouring concrete. The other twenty persons were held just to the side. The condemned were accused of being Kiddokyo (Protestant Christian) spies and conspiring to engage in subversive activities. Nevertheless, they were told “If you abandon religion and serve only Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, you will not be killed.” None of the five said a word. Some of the fellow parishioners assembled to watch the execution cried, screamed out, or fainted when the skulls made a popping sound as they were crushed beneath the steam roller.
Excerto de “THANK YOU FATHER KIM IL SUNG: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF SEVERE VIOLATIONS OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, CONSCIENCE, AND RELIGION IN NORTH KOREA“ relatório elaborado pela U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom em Novembro 2005.
[Imagem retirada do FP-Passport | via Estado Sentido]
“Václav Havel: another side to the story” de Neil Clark no Guardian
No one questions that Havel, who went to prison twice, was a brave man who had the courage to stand up for his views.Yet the question which needs to be asked is whether his political campaigning made his country, and the world, a better place. Havel’s anti-communist critique contained little if any acknowledgement of the positive achievements of the regimes of eastern Europe in the fields of employment, welfare provision, education and women’s rights. Or the fact that communism, for all its faults, was still asystem which put the economic needs of the majority first.
Com um tal elogio dos regimes comunistas até admira que Clark não ponha em causa a coragem de Havel durante a ditadura. Que, parece conveniente relembrar, era então criminalizada e lhe valeu uma estada na prisão entre outras agruras. Quanto aos supostos benefícios do comunismo e ao desempenho económico dos ex-países comunistas acho que uma extrema cegueira mental será capaz de negar a realidade.
Miguel Noronha