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Business as usual: Disgraceful NYT Op-Eds
Crimes of the corporate media annals OP-EDS by Stephen Lendman NYT policy is consistent. It's longstanding. It's deplorable. It's opposite ...
Obama Administration Calmly Debates Killing More Americans
Who Will Conduct the Slaughter This Time Around? by JASON HIRTHLER The critical reader could be forgiven for feeling like ...
Italy Changes Governments Again: Progress or Return to the Past?
Dispatch from Rome— Gaither Stewart in Rome Most Italians agree that political change is no longer an option in this ...
Mandela’s heritage: a dissident view
Editor's note: Now that the cheering and eulogies and crocodile tears have petered out, maybe it's time to take a ...
Obama’s ProtoWar Against Russia and China
Nuclear Brinksmanship by ERIC SOMMER [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ussia and China are both under attack by a multi-pronged U.S.-led ‘proto-war’ which could erupt ...
Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism
Bill Van Auken, wsws.org The US media has shown remarkably little interest in the tape of a telephone call between ...
Missing the Marx, More or Less: On Intellectual Failure and Environmental Catastrophe
PAUL STREET Personal site First published on ZNet, January 24, 2014. Getting radical anti-capitalist ideas wrong and ignoring those ideas completely ...
Greanville’s Tweetios: Nuland’s Indiscretion
The latest round of revelations about Victoria Nuland's shameless interference in the affairs of Ukraine, and, as Putin has said, ...
CBS does its job: offensive to demonize Ukraine’s government continues
Pelley: Happy to spout the official line. Did the people who pass themselves for journalists at CBS ever heard of false ...
Putin’s Sochi mistakes: from wrong location to wiping out strays?
Patrice Greanville —DISCLAIMER— The Greanville Post hardly wishes to add its voice to those who make it a profession to ...
How the West Manufactures “Opposition Movements”
From Egypt, Ukraine, the Turkish-Syrian border, Cuba and Thailand by ANDRE VLTCHEK, Counterpunch [G]overnment buildings are being trashed, ransacked. It ...
The Grim Truth Behind the ‘Scandinavian Miracle’
The Guardian [1] / By Michael Booth [2] Swedes protesting rightwing government's unemployment benefits cuts. For the past few years the world has been in ...
