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This is the Way the World Ends
With a Bang, a Whimper and Then a Whoosh! by ANDREW LEVINE [A]re the pessimists, followers of Optim’s antonymous sibling, ...
Kiev’s Junta war crimes – Luhansk 08/13
Is it Gaza or is it Eastern Ukraine? Don't ask the Western media. They're too busy preparing Americans for more ...
Crocodile Tears for Iraq
The Real U.S. Legacy by NICK ALEXANDROV, Counterpunch “This is an act of ethnic cleansing, if you will, almost genocide,” ...
Let’s Not Be Fooled By Bernie Sanders
EDUCATE! By Thomas Scott Tucker, PopularResistance.org Let’s not be fooled by “progressives” who can’t find their spines when the colonial ...
The Pakistan-US state terrorism in North Waziristan and FATA
OpEds By Fazal Rahman, Ph.D. Reprinted with permission from Imperialism and the Third World. [T]he current ongoing military operation in ...
Paul Craig Roberts On the Ukraine Crisis and other matters
PREFATORY NOTE BY JACK REVOLUTIONIST (LUV News) [I]'ve received a lot of death threats and other nasty attacks for my ...
De facto martial law in Ferguson, Missouri
These are just rehearsals by the lurking police state...get ready for the real thing. Barry Grey, wsws.org [T]he state of ...
CORPORATE FASCISM: The Destruction of America’s Middle Class
Despite its advanced stage, most Americans remain passive and disorganized ...
Crossing Swords in Ferguson, Gaza, Egypt… and the Unifying Principle of Respect
By Gary Corseri “The heart of love that breaks apart the drone, propelled by a slingshot converted into a peace-making ...
Julian Assange and Extradition
The Ecuadorian Saga by BINOY KAMPMARK [S]o far, the latest chapter in the Julian Assange chronicle within the Ecuadorian embassy ...
The Dilemma of the Liberal Zionist
An Untenable Position by LAWRENCE DAVIDSON, Counterpunch . [L]iberalism, framed as a socio-political ideal, argues that human beings are good and social ...
Cuomo Does Israel — And Buffalo Too!
The "harmlessness" of routine pandering evaporates when politicians try to ingratiate themselves not just with an innocent ethnic group, but ...