Néstor García Iturbe: Welcome, Mr. Kerry
CUBA.- EU.- WELCOME, MR. KERRY By: Néstor García Iturbe August 13, 2015 A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. The United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, comes to our country on 14 August. The purpose of the visit is the formal opening of the US Embassy in Havana. We say formal, because, as of […]
Fidel Castro on the 50th Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution
Book of Fidel Castro’s Thoughts Presented in China (2010) Fidel Castro on China’s 60th anniversary: History Cannot be Ignored (2009) Fidel Castro Meets with Chinese Leader (2008) Fidel Castro: Message to the Chinese People (2007) Fidel Castro: The Chinese Victory (2008) Cien Horas Con Fidelnow available in Chinese (2008) Chinese Foreign Ministry’s history of China-Cuba […]
The Socialist Imperative; From Gotha to Now (2015)
THE SOCIALIST IMPERATIVE; FROM GOTHA TO NOW (2015) by Michael A. Lebowitz [excerpts] Monthly Review Press (2015) pp. 135-6 Socialism: The Goal, the Paths, and the Compass At the February 2010 Havana Book Fair, I presented my short book, El Socialismo no Cae del Cielo: Un Neuvo Comienzo, which had been published in 2009 by […]
*texto integro* – Hillary Clinton: Es necesario terminar con el embargo a Cuba de una vez y para siempre. (Miami, 31 de julio 2015)
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Noam Chomsky on Walter Lippmann
Activist and scholar Noam Chomsky said in an interview: the term “manufacturing consent” is not mine, I took it from Walter Lippmann, the leading public intellectual and leading media figure of the twentieth century, who thought it was a great idea. He said we should manufacture consent, that’s the way democracies should work. There should be […]
Historian Howard Zinn, in Discovering John Reed
Historian Howard Zinn, in Discovering John Reed, contrasted the evolution of Reed and Lippmann during World War 1, where Reed moved left and Lippmann moved right: The big periodicals of New York pressed him to cover the European war for them, and he agreed to go for the Metropolitan. At the same time he wrote […]
“Walter Lippmann and Democracy” by Herbert Aptheker (1955)
Historian Herbert Aptheker, author of American Negro Slave Revolts, editor of the writings of, and literary executor of W.E.B. DuBois, and of the Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States and numerous other works on Black history, wrote a comprehensive analysis in 1955 . It was reprinted in Dr. Aptheker’s History and […]
“Lippmann and the News” by MICHAEL SCHUDSON
“Lippmann and the News” by MICHAEL SCHUDSON [from THE NATION, December 31, 2007] For Lippmann, veracity is not easy to attain, nor is its enemy in journalism primarily or necessarily a matter of government pressure or corporate ownership. The same year he published Liberty and the News, Lippmann, assisted by fellow New Republic editor Charles […]