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Charles and David Koch: Meet the Billionaires Linked to the Wisconsin Protests

Don't mess with the Kochs. Charles and David Koch, the two billionaire brothers who fight for conservative causes, have found themselves embroiled in the ongoing Wisconsin standoff between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and public employees angry about his plan to kill collective bargaining. David Koch, in particular, is...

'Afghan Robin Hood' and Other Real-Life Outlaws

(Oct. 4) -- Meet Col. Abdul Razziq, a larger-than-life figure in the Afghan war who simultaneously manages a vast criminal empire and maintains an impressive level of NATO-appreciated security in the areas he controls, earning him the nickname "the Afghan Robin Hood." His life and deeds are also the subject of a detailed...

Castro: Actually, Communism Is Working Out Pretty Great for Cuba

(Sept. 10) -- History may or may not absolve former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but one thing is certain: He is not about to absolve history, at least not when it comes a recent quote attributed to him by journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, who wrote that Castro told him: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us...

Castro Admits Cuban Communism Not Working

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(Sept. 9) -- None other than Fidel Castro himself now appears to have given up on Cuba's archaic communist system. The revolutionary leader last week launched a surprise attack on the state-controlled economy he helped create 50 years ago during an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for The Atlantic...

Castro Says 'Cuban Model' Not Working Anymore

HAVANA (Sept. 9) -- Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who...

Background on communism

Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.

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