Ghosts of Germany's Communist Past Return for Election
By: Erik Kirschbaum
- Erik Kirschbaum is a Reuters correspondent in Berlin. August 28th, 2009
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/08/28/ghosts-of-germanys-communist-past-return-for-election/
Will the party that traces its roots to
Japan opposition takes on economy after landslide
By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer Eric Talmadge, Associated
Press Writer 1 hr 53 mins ago
TOKYO – Japan's likely next prime minister rushed to select Cabinet
ministers Monday after his party trounced the ruling conservatives in
elections
This is a partly at least misleading report not taking into account the changes that one of the
constituent elements of Die Linke - ie the former PDS which arose from the eastern Communist Party,
SED - went through nor does it take into account what the West German element,
originally called
If a non-European wants to really
understand what is going on he (she) has to read a countervailing reports
by ot er journalists (in differenr media).
Stephen Steiger, Praue, Czech Republic
^^^
CB Got any countervailing reports ?
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Japan Votes for Multipolarity
dredmond
Voters roundly reject the LDP's watered-down variant of a
US-subservient neoliberalism:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908300210.html
Japan, it should be
The thing to remember is this: the NEW RULING party is simply a set of
factions that emerged from the OLD RULING party over 10 years ago.
They ran as opposition on MORE FREE MARKETS, DEREGULATION,
LIBERALIZATION and appeasement of big business interests that seek to
co-habit with American big