the gop's sinister new nationalism

In India, Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is challenging the secular, multiethnic, and cosmopolitan democracy enshrined in the constitution. . But here’s the difference with the Soviet Union of the early 1950s. Jewish poets didn’t conspire against Stalin; there was no such Doctor’s..

china and russia in strategic alliance

Russian of Strategic Culture Foundation published on June important editorial dedicated to highlighting the strong contrast between the alliance for the century that is being consolidated between China and Russia and the situation of enmity and confrontation that can be seen among Western leaders.. ..

nc mps seek withdrawal of media council bill

Speaking during the in House of Representatives, Khand asked the government to withdraw Media Council Bill and amendment bill of National Human Rights Act, had the provisions of curtailing press freedom and human rights, the fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution.. By curtailing..

bolshevism, the civil war, and stalinism

They also drafted and adopted a Soviet constitution at high speed (by July 1918 – contrast the 12 years it took the American Revolution to move to a constitution, and the four years it took the French Revolution to move to the constitution of 1793). . ..

a need for legal certainty

One of these was to overhaul Cuba’s 1976 constitution, which was drafted at the height of Cuban socialism and has long been out of sync with the country’s post-Soviet reality. In July, Cuba’s National Assembly unveiled a proposed version for the new constitution. ..

monthly review

After the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet Union two years later it was difficult to address the question of socialism for at least two reasons its almost complete in the popular mind with Soviet system and the vision of capitalism that was paraded at the time. ..

a warning shot for putin

Duma is already relatively powerless compared to what Russia watchers call the super presidency enshrined in the constitution that was written by Putin's, Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first elected president. Between the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 and 1993, Yeltsin faced parliament. ..

separation of church, state must be preserved

Once again we have those who would try to rewrite the history of our nation and suggest that the separation of church and state is not part of the fabric of the Constitution of United States... Some claim the idea of separation of church and state comes from Soviet constitution...

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