http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/newleft/ en-us Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:15:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029247/posts Democrats, more concerned with saving their party than saving America, would like you and I to forget the old saying “you are known by the company you keep”. We are not to know that Barak Hussein Obama’s official website attracts hateful psychotics: Socialists for Obama, Muslims for Obama, Black Panthers for Obama, or Jemaah Islamiyah’s statement on the website “ We are a group that supports social justice for our oppressed Muslim brothers all over the world. Focal Point USA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029247/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:15:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013208/posts Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obama’s legendary pledges to bring “change” to America’s political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, “Change We Can Believe In” is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is also well practiced at issuing calls for change. Her “Change and Experience” ad campaign was but an outgrowth of her 1993 declaration, as First Lady, that “remolding society is one of the great challenges... Point Of View http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013208/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 19:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885177/posts Radicalism is no longer taught only in college; many younger students are getting a head start. Schools traditionally emphasized the “three Rs” – reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic. Recently a “fourth R” seems to have entered the American schoolhouse: radicalism. “When you go into a class where you’re supposed to learn about government or geography,” high-school junior Sean Allen says, “you expect to learn what the truth is.” He found out last year that some teachers don’t share his expectation. An Accelerated World Geography class at Overland High School in suburban Denver featured diatribes against the United States, capitalism and President... American Legion Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885177/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:33:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771487/posts Breezing through the bookstore at Reagan National Airport the other day, I came across a new volume with the intriguing yet subtle title, American Fascists – The Christian Right and The War on America by former New York Times' correspondent Chris Hedges. But, as the saying goes, tell us what you really think. No hyperbole here. In the introduction, Hedges makes it clear that he actually is comparing evangelical opponents of abortion and gay marriage to the monsters who burned books, ran death camps and plunged humanity into a world war that left 63 million dead. Except it’s Hedges who... Frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771487/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:39:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659819/posts How liberals lost their way Robert Fulford National Post Saturday, July 01, 2006 In 1949 Arthur Schlesinger Jr., then the young intellectual-in-chief of American politics, announced that anti-communism had become an essential part of liberalism. That might seem obvious. Surely the more liberal you are, the more you oppose communist tyranny, no? Still, it needed saying. Schlesinger and his friends had recently beaten back communist sympathizers in the Democratic Party and the unions. In his much-quoted book, The Vital Center, he said communism's challenge had forced American liberals "to take inventory of their moral resources" and decide they couldn't... National Post - Canada http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659819/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jul 2006 19:09:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629204/posts The New left and the Views of C. Wright Mills Written: Summer, 1961 First Published: International Socialist Review, New York, Volume 22, No. 3, pp. 67-79. Transcription/Editing: 2005 by Daniel Gaido HTML Markup: 2005 by David Walters Public Domain:George Novak Internet Archive 2005; This work is completely free. In any reproduction, we ask that you cite this Internet address and the publishing information above. In capitals as distant as Warsaw and Tokyo, London and New York a significant new current of thought has been taking shape among intellectuals on the left. Despite the differences in their surroundings and in their... International Socialist Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629204/posts#comment Tue, 9 May 2006 14:56:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629058/posts What is it about peace and prosperity and a two term Democratic Presidency that Democrats don't like?According to one of the leading liberal bloggers, Markos Moulitsas (or as he is known in the blogosphere - Kos), it is nothing that terribly significant. The head of the netroots high command suggests in Sunday's Washington Post, "Despite all his successes -- and eight years of peace and prosperity is nothing to sneeze at -- he never broke the 50-percent mark in his two elections. Regardless of the president's personal popularity, Democrats held fewer congressional seats at the end of his presidency than... RealClearPolitics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629058/posts#comment Tue, 9 May 2006 07:50:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602052/posts (Executive Summary) During the 1960s and early 1970s, the American people wit- ness4d the growth and decline of'a movement known as the New Left. Those who. gave impetus to the New Left were often the offspring,of Old Left activists, including members of the Communist Party, U.S.A.j one'of the principal Old Left Communist organizations. while there';kere major differences between the two broad movements, par- ticularly as to ideological and organizational discipline, they also managed to coalesce around the great radical organizing causes of -he period, including especially.the Vietnam war; and, though often wracked by sectarian and tactical disputes, they were alike... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602052/posts#comment Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538175/posts WASHINGTON - Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89. McCarthy died in his sleep at assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he had lived for the past few years, said his son, Michael. Eugene McCarthy challenged President Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1968 Democratic nomination during growing debate over the Vietnam War. The challenge led to Johnson's withdrawal from the race. The former college professor, who ran for president five times... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538175/posts#comment Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:22:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477462/posts Shortly after Gerhard Schröder first became German chancellor in 1998, the British tabloid press declared his longtime rival and then finance minister Oskar Lafontaine "the most dangerous man in Europe." At the time, this seemed a ludicrous judgment - not least because it was quickly proved wrong by Lafontaine himself, who resigned only weeks afterward in what is generally regarded one of the more embarrassing cop-outs in postwar German politics. Now, almost seven years later, Lafontaine, who was the first former leader to be threatened with expulsion from the Social Democractic Party (SPD) for delivering a series of public diatribes... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477462/posts#comment Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:56:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308889/posts Fallen Idol A review of Mao: A Reinterpretation by Lee Feigon By Arthur Waldron Mao Zedong was the great hero and icon of much of the "New Left" of forty years ago much as Stalin was for its predecessor, the "Old Left" in the early to middle decades of the last century. Those who fell under the spell of these tyrants in their youth have rarely managed completely to rid themselves of visceral sympathies for them, and a sense that somehow those who pillory their erstwhile heroes don't quite understand. So it is perhaps not surprising that the first... The Claremont Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308889/posts#comment Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:44:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1200209/posts There is a great deal of pop cultural analysis that blames the Baby Boomer generation for the ills that plague American society. I believe that this analysis is as faulty as the perception that Jews were the cause of Communism. Rather, the culture wars that started in the 1960s are the outward manifestation of intellectual movements that began over 200 years before the Berkeley "Free Speech" movement or Woodstock. With regard to the sexual revolution, it was the 1960s and 1970s when promiscuity, no fault divorce, abortion on demand, etc., became widespread in American society. However, that revolution did not... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1200209/posts#comment Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:43:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193416/posts Crows' feet, graying temples, bifocals, a bad ticker and those blankety-blank AARP publications in the mailbox every other day are all reminders that I'm a Baby Boomer whose protest-crazy generation is now more concerned with the price of prescription drugs than the cost of war. But, in this very political year, I'm also observing a political change. Either I'm not as liberal as I used to be or there is a new definition of liberalism. Winston Churchill used to say that any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is... The Advocate-Messenger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1193416/posts#comment Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:53:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104101/posts When I was young, my parents in the early 1960s told me to ignore stories about the “Jews.” Of course, out here in rural California, I never met such distant persons, but only heard about them from disgruntled farmers (who, I wager, had never met any either). These pesky “Jews” apparently in some secretive cabal controlled the entire fruit-market of the United States! “They” — not the paradoxes of interstate commerce and the cutthroat nature of American marketing — explained why we got $3 a box for plums while “they” took $20. Middle men, market manipulators, and secret smart guys... VDH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104101/posts#comment Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:02:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1027558/posts WASHINGTON - Civil liberties groups and politicians raised the prospect Sunday that FBI (news - web sites) monitoring of anti-war protesters could stifle legitimate dissent and jeopardize people's First Amendment right to speak their mind. "What is the chilling effect that will be felt by Americans all across the country if they think they will come under FBI scrutiny just by going to a protest?" said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites). An FBI official on Sunday denied any effort to collect intelligence on people exercising their rights to free speech. The... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1027558/posts#comment Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:00:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021610/posts The following is the first of two parts of Jamie Glazov's introduction to David Horowitz's new book Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey, (Spence Publishing, 2003). Part II will run in our Monday issue, November 17. F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed that American lives have no second acts. The odyssey of David Horowitz refutes Fitzgerald’s claim. Born into a Communist family, Horowitz became one of the founders and intellectual leaders of the New Left in the 1960’s. Then, as the result of a tragedy that was both personal and political, he became profoundly disillusioned with the radical movement and its social... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1021610/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:58:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/856884/posts Toogood Reports [Tuesday, March 4, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Was communism ever a real threat to the nations of the world, or was it just a phantasm infecting the minds of the cold warriors who for so long supported Containment Theory? As my previous column noted, Containment Theory argued that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. As omniscient Marxist academics now tell us, Containment Theory has "little or no intellectual... Toogood Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/856884/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:08:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/853245/posts Toogood Reports [Thursday, February 27, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Cold War thinking was dominated in the West by "Containment Theory," one of whose implications was the Domino Theory. Containment Theory, as originally formulated by diplomat George Kennan, stated that America had to aggressively confront the power of the Soviet Union, wherever the latter made inroads, or threatened to make them. The main means of confrontation was in putting American troops in the Soviets' path. The "Domino Theory" held that the fall of any government to communism likely would topple neighboring governments. The Domino Theory began making a comeback regarding... Toogood Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/853245/posts#comment Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:06:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/795634/posts With the Democratic Party still trying to find an identity and direction in the wake of the humiliating midterm elections, it's amazing and bewildering that a clear course of action — a resonant and resounding theme — has not yet been vocalized by party leaders in Washington, D.C., or Washington state: Become Paul Wellstone Democrats. Wellstone — though passionately liberal — was noted for his civility. The Minnesota senator, who died in a plane crash Oct. 25, did not attack or disparage opponents or their ideas; he advanced his beliefs, and would put forth compelling reasons why you should... The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/795634/posts#comment Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:01:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/787818/posts From the radicalism of the '60s to the interventionism of the '90s. The Passion of Joschka Fischer by Paul Berman Issue Date: 08.27.01 Post Date: 08.22.01 I. Last January, Stern magazine in Germany published a set of five grainy photographs of Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister and vice chancellor, as a young bully in a street battle in Frankfurt. It was April 1973. The photos showed: a figure in a black motorcycle helmet, labeled as Fischer, facing off against another figure in a white policeman's helmet, with a dented Volkswagen squatting in the background; the black-helmeted Fischer drawing near,... The New Republic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/787818/posts#comment Wed, 13 Nov 2002 04:51:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/723789/posts The Hive (Reprinted from SOBRAN’S, June 1999, page 3) Twenty years ago, I was struck by the way various sorts of political “progressives” — Communists, socialists, liberals, “civil libertarians,” “moderates,” “pragmatists” — all spontaneously cooperated with each other. It wasn’t a conspiracy; there was obviously no central direction. But the pattern was too clear to be denied. The word “left” was a dead metaphor; it said nothing interesting about the people it referred to. So I used the metaphor of an insect hive, which captured the way such people moved in harmony and communicated with each other. In a beehive,... Sobran's http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/723789/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jul 2002 03:09:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714241/posts Why are netballers called "girls", why can't they wear shorts and why must they be "ladies" on court? It's all part of the netball holy grail - the sport's attempt to strive for the idealised feminine sportswoman. But the tired old stereotype is now under pressure. The latest edict from netball's keepers of the image is that mouthing the "f " word on court is out. Sent off the court out, that is. Not only that - apparently the ABC has agreed to edit out pictures of stray "f" mouthings so the audience doesn't get to see what the girl... Sydney Morning Herald ) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/714241/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jul 2002 05:16:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/713661/posts {This is a long article, so I will summarise the authors main points. (1) Expand the spirit of Porto Alegre. ( clarity, miltancy, long term planning) (2) Use defensive electoral tactics. (3) Push democratization unceasingly. The most popular demand on the states everywhere is "more"-more education, more health, more guaranteed lifetime income. (4) Make the liberal center fulfil its theoretical preferences. (5) Make anti-racism the defining measure of democracy. (6) Move towards decommodification. (7) Remember always that we are living in the era of transition from our existing world-system to something different. See the full article below:} ___________________ AN EXCHANGEA... The Monthly Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/713661/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:58:52 GMT