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Our final tribute to a freedom fighter

Posted by Alejandro Honeker on Saturday, April 20, 2013,

Margaret Thatcher | 1925-2013

This is our final tribute to the Iron Lady. Her passion for individual freedom and her determination to carry out her vision will continue to inspire our political philosophy. Like the people of Eastern Europe whose liberation from totalitarianism she helped to accomplish, we say thank you.

"The full accounting of how my political work affected the lives of others is something we will only know on Judgement Day. It is an awesome and unsettling thought....

An historic opportunity to bury fascism in the Americas

Posted by Alejandro Honeker on Sunday, October 7, 2012,

Our endorsement for the Venezuelan presidential election

Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday to choose between six more years of ‘chavismo’ or a new beginning. After years of non-competitive presidential elections since Hugo Chávez came to power, this is the first time an opposition candidate has a real chance to defeat the South American autocrat and his authoritarian regime. Chávez’s challenger, Henrique Capriles Radonski, was selected as the presidential candidate of the Demo...

Bigotry's last stand

Posted by Alejandro Honeker on Sunday, April 19, 2009,

The anti-gay marriage TV ad titled "Gathering Storm," produced by the so-called "National Organization for Marriage," shows the level of desperation the far right is having after the victory of the marriage equality movement in Iowa and Vermont. The far right has ran out of arguments to oppose same-sex marriage (not that they ever had any) and has adopted plain bigotry to stop equal rights for everybody.
Watch the ad and look for yourself.

As you may expect, it didn't take too long for h...
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Marriage equality in Iowa

Posted by Alejandro Honeker on Friday, April 3, 2009,

Today, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage passed a decade ago by the state legislature violates the notion of equal protection under the law and, therefore, is unconstitutional. With this decision, Iowa becomes the third state in the nation (after Massachusetts and Connecticut), but, most importantly, the first mid-western state to legalize same-sex civil marriages. This is a very important victory for gay rights activists in a not necessarily liberal s...
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Welcome to realLibs.com!

Posted by Alejandro Honeker on Sunday, March 22, 2009,

Welcome to realLibs.com, the place for real Liberals from around the world. If you believe in free minds, free markets, individual liberty, social inclusion, internationalism and tolerance you are welcome to join us! If you don't, you are also welcome to debate our ideas. After all, that's a really liberal thing to do!
You can find links to news of interest for liberals from different news outlets, both from the US and the world. You can also find our opinion on current topics and policies in...