Through Some Capitalism, Even Socialism Can Survive
From the desk of George Handlery on Sat, 2011-04-23 13:48
1. Raul Castro has spoken on April 16. Addresses from the top of the heap command greater interest in dictatorships than in open societies. In the latter, a de-electable person’s words shrink to a support seeking call. In an autocracy, the Leader’s words are pronouncements to be enforced by whatever it takes.
If you add up the areas in which changes are promised, you find an admission of what earlier the “enemy” claimed. The list confirms a catalogue of things that are awry. These admissions should be compared to the hither claims made by the regime and its apologists. According to these, 2+2 was not four but five or six –as Castro the Lesser has now put it. Remember here the enthusiasm with which the claims of paradise were the holy writ among “progressives” abroad. Such declarations substitute dreams for reality and overlook the systemic shortcomings of leftism.
Iceland’s Pointless EU Application
From the desk of Hjörtur J. Guðmundsson on Sat, 2011-04-23 13:43
There are naturally many things that the European Union should never have done and one of them was to accept Iceland’s application to join the bloc. But Brussels can be pitied up to a certain point as it was deceived to think that the Icelandic people desired membership. Nothing, however, could be further from the reality. The Icelandic people have never wished to become members of the EU and never as little as today. As much as two thirds oppose membership according to successive opinion polls by various polling companies.
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