It was humanity at its best. Showing compassion for the quick and the dead. The quick made news in Tbilisi, Georgia. The dead made news in Worcester, Massachusetts. Continue reading »
Exposing the faux left in Europe
By Johannes Stern, wsws.org
The “Marx Is Muss” [“Marx is a must”] congress taking place this weekend in Berlin is a shabby operation organised by the Marx 21 group aimed at promoting right-wing and imperialist policy under a pseudo-left garb. Marx 21 is a faction inside the German Left Party, with links to the International Socialist Tendency. Continue reading »
By Sarath Kumara and Wimal Perera , wsws.org
UPDATE: Rescuers now put the figure at 1127 victims.
The Rana Plaza tragedy: totally avoidable in a compassionate and well governed world. The site of the garment factory building collapse is in Savar, Bangladesh.
The death toll of the Savar building collapse reached 950 by Thursday evening, refuting earlier claims of the Bangladesh government and business organisations, which put the number of deaths at a lower figure. Continue reading »
The New Power Behind the Israeli Rightwing
Abroad at Home: Israeli veterans of the Red Army celebrate in 2007 the anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in Israel, where Russian Jewish immigrants have transformed the national landscape. (The Jewish Daily Forward)
When the huge immigration wave from the Soviet Union arrived in 1990, we were glad. First of all, because we believe that all immigration is a good thing for the country. This, I believe, is generally the case.
Second, because we were convinced that this specific group of immigrants would push our country in the right direction. Continue reading »
The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There’s no price the big banks can’t fix
by MATT TAIBBI
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Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world’s largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything. Continue reading »
They have been standard issue since the days of Peter the Great. But, finally, portyanki have reached the end of the road
Russian conscripts in Moscow learn to put on their foot wraps, in 2007. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
They’ve seen service in the Seven Years war, the Napoleonic wars, theCrimean war and two world wars – in fact, in every war the Russian army has fought since the 17th century. But by the end of this year, they’ll be history. Continue reading »