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Russian and US Objectives in Syria Worlds Apart

Russian aerial operations are smashing terrorists in Syria. Washington supports them, massacring civilians instead, along with destroying vital infrastructure. Over the ...

DEFINITIONS: THE BOURGEOISIE

ANNOTATED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE “We are not fighting against men or a kind of politics but against the class which ...

Did the CIA Use Gloria Steinem to Subvert the Feminist Movement?

ORIGINALLY AT STUARTJEANBRAMHALL.COM Originally Posted: October 13, 2015 in Feminism Co-opting Radical Feminism for Corporate Interests While preeminent American feminist ...

Oppose the state crackdown on the Catalan independence referendum!

For working class unity! No to separatism in Spain! WSWS.ORG 30 September 2017 On the eve of the October 1 ...

Crypto Currencies: The Internet of Money

This article will give an overview of what a Crypto Currency is, where they came from and what the crypto ...

The new McCarthyism and the suppression of political dissent

By Andre Damon, wsws.org If you repeat a lie often enough, from every platform, many idiots are sure to believe ...

Sputnik interviews the Saker

US' Plan B? From Alleged Evacuation of Daesh to the Murder of Russian General Interview conducted by Ekaterina Blinova / Sputnik International ...

Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens [annotated]

By Reed Richardson If journalism resigns itself to being a “first draft of history,” Ken Burns’ popular PBS documentaries, written ...

Why is the far-right benefiting from the crisis of capitalism?

BY BARRY GREY Sunday’s election in Germany saw the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and collapse of ...

The Push To “Fight Foreign Propaganda” Is The Same As Government Book Burning

An old idea to silence critical thought is coming back under a new sanctimonious cover—what else could we expect from ...

Enemies of the Good: Syria, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela

They all have one thing in common: an independent spirit. Fifteenth century German philosopher Nicholas of Cusa is credited with ...

Bill Blum: Cold War Then. Cold War Now

By William Blum/ As posted by fraternal site Dandelion Salad Image by J Duval via Flickr www.killinghope.org September 26, 2017 Cold ...