By: Michael Forrester Capitalism has a mixed reputation in our society as of late. Some argue it's the reason why our society is degrading into a cyst pool of moral decay being led by the love of wealth, while others paint capitalism as a beacon of hope and salvation,…
By: Stephanie Pulsck The Way Back is a surprisingly good film. It debuted back in 2010, it stars relatively unknown performers (other than Colin Farrell) along with relatively unknown crew, though some might know director Peter Weir's most famous works, Dead Poet Society and The Truman Show, among others.…
By: Geoffrey Yonil Kim Jong Il, the Supreme Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as reported by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), is dead at 69 of a heart attack after 17 years of ruling North Korea. According to KCNA, Jong Il's death was caused by…
By: Bernard Falis We've all heard how diametrically opposed capitalism and socialism are, and whenever a pundit really wants to insult someone they disagree with nowadays, especially in America, they just call them a socialist, e.g. FOX News and Obama's Administration. But are they really that dissimilar? To break…
By: Thomas Vyncent The Zeitgeist Movement is like communism, democracy, and every science fiction movie and book you've ever seen, read, or heard about. In essence, it proposes that we, as a modern society, are steadily moving towards an apocalyptic world due to a lack of sustainability. This is…
By: David Palsman Talking to a Communist friend of mine—though we usually disagree on most things political—he pointed out something that I hadn't thought about before: maybe we should elect a fundamentalist right-wing Republican as the next President. Not for the sake of saving our country, but to jumpstart…
By: Thomas Rhodin In many respects the bi-partisan, Democrat-and-Republican system that we've grown accustomed in the past couple hundred years has failed. Too many voices, yet only two parties to represent the entirety of the nation's desires and needs, with the occasional third party Independent. And then with this…
By: Jeremy Mydril Imagine what it would look like if Leon Trotsky was reincarnated into a seventeen-year-old Canadian high school student who tries to unionize the students of his public high school, and that's what 'The Trotsky' was all about. Leon Bronstein (played by Jay Baruchel) is a disenfranchised…
By: James Daniels Most people could not wait for the Bush years to be over. With a deficit that was increasing at a mind-boggling rate, unpopular wars, and a host of other major problems, the country was ready for a change. And who could have been better to replace…
By: Timofey Rejouain Under a Cruel Star tells the story of Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czechoslovakian writer, narrated in the first person. In her memoir, Kovaly indicates in the very first sentence that there were three forces in her life that determined the person she would later become: Nazism,…