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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

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US and allies ramp up plans for military intervention in Syria

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Apr 302012
 

 
The “face” of Syrian opposition.  For chief consumption in the West. The US propaganda book calls for “character assassination” of the intended target prior to physical elimination (in this case military assault, as in Libya, Iraq, etc.).

By Chris Marsden, WSWS.ORG
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Accusations that the Syrian government is either wholly or mainly responsible for breaches of the United Nations’ ceasefire are meant to provide a pretext for military intervention by the imperialist powers and their proxies.

The US and European media, meanwhile, is acting as a barely concealed propaganda instrument tasked with preparing public opinion for the latest criminal adventure in the Middle East—a war for regime change in Syria to follow those waged in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading »

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OpEds: The downfall of Bo Xilai in China

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Apr 302012
 

By John Chan, WSWS.ORG
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The dramatic downfall of Bo Xilai (above), a former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) central committee and politburo member, is a sharp expression of the deepening political and economic crisis in China.

Bo was stripped of his post as party secretary in Chongqing last month, then arrested. He faces serious corruption charges and could face the death penalty over the alleged murders of his wife’s British business partner Neil Heywood and at least two policemen who refused to cover it up. Until the allegations emerged, Bo had been considered a candidate for the CCP’s top body—the Politburo Standing Committee—in the leadership change due later this year. Continue reading »

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What’s Next for Libya?

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Apr 302012
 


Suspect as Western-influenced any demonstrator that looks “too middle-class”, who sports some pamphlet or poster too well made (as in picture), or who proclaims something in English.—Eds.

By Stephen Lendman

NATO’s “responsibility to protect” (R2P) was subterfuge to wage war. Months of terror bombing left Libya a charnel house.

Africa’s most developed country was ravaged, not liberated. Protracted struggle continues. Expect it to persist for years.

When is war not war? It’s when mass killing and destruction are called the right thing. It’s also when terrorizing and traumatizing an entire population continues unaddressed.

Libya was developed and peaceful until NATO intervened. It arrived on cruise missiles, bombs, shells, other munitions, depleted and enriched uranium, other terror weapons, fifth column infiltrators, and media scoundrel complicity, as well as coverup and denial. Continue reading »

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Preventing Peace to Wage War

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Apr 252012
 

by Stephen Lendman

Obama plans more wars. The peace candidate can’t get enough of them. Hawkishness defines his agenda. So does belligerently transforming independent regimes into client ones. 

The business of America is war. Permanent war is policy. Peace is abhorred. Preventing it is prioritized. So is controlling Eurasia’s vast oil, gas, and other resources unchallenged.   Continue reading »

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US Medicare and Social Security forecasts prompt new calls for cutbacks

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Apr 252012
 

With the support and connivance of the criminal politico-media establishment the fraudulent attacks on Medicare and Social Security continue unabated. Meanwhile, at least 150 million seriously misled Americans live in and fiercely support their own enslavement. This bloc of severely misinformed Americans who, harming their own interest,  support candidates and policies that benefit only the superrich constitute an obstacle to the birth of a more democratic republic. —Eds. 


Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare Act into official law. Johnson would be regarded as a dangerous leftist by today’s elites.  

By Kate Randall, WSWS.ORG.
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Annual reports by the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees state that trust funds for the government programs are both on “unsustainable paths.” The reports released Monday project that the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2024 and the Social Security fund will run out by 2033. Continue reading »

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OpEds: Political issues in the French presidential election

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Apr 252012
 

Alex Lantier, WSWS.ORG

François Hollande, the official socialist candidate.  False hope, equivalent to a British laborite like Blair, or a Clinton in US political terms. Nothing good will come from the election of this so-called “socialist”.´—Eds.

The first round of the French presidential election on Sunday starkly exposed the political crisis in France and throughout Europe and the immense dangers facing the working class. The main political beneficiary of four years of global economic crisis, imperialist war in the Middle East and collapsing state budgets was the neo-fascist National Front (FN) of Marine Le Pen. Continue reading »

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