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Bolivia's Morales: Pursuing semi-socialist paths while still using capitalist notions like "growing the economy" and "unlimited extractivism" betrays the revolution, the people and the planet itself.

Radical Political Economy of the Environment

The Real Green by JAVIER SETHNESS CASTRO On Saturday, 5 October, the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) held a ...
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Why the Ruling Class Feared Camp Kinderland

Learning the Spirit of Rebellion at Commie Camp by LOUIS PROYECT This is a follow-up to the July 1947 PM ...
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The US raid on Libya and the fraud of the war on terror

Bill Van Auken, wsws.org US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proclaimed Sunday that two covert operations mounted by US Special Forces ...
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The China Fixation

Old Game, New Obsession, New Enemy by JOHN PILGER Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played ...
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The Evisceration of Yugoslavia Part II: Nazis, Bilderbergers and Clinton Liars

(Part two of a five-part series excerpted from Chapter 15: Yugoslavia Bad, Greater Albania Good: Big Oil & Their Bankers …) by Dean ...
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The Latest Step in the Evolution of America’s Police State

Targeting Trojanow by WILLIAM BLUM “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to fear.” So say many Americans ...
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The Kochs Can’t Control the Monster They Created

The billionaire conservatives join the ranks of business interests trying to rein in the populist right, but they're no longer ...
Structural Inclinations - The Leaning Tower of Propaganda: Chemical Weapons Attacks In Ghouta, Syria

Structural Inclinations – The Leaning Tower of Propaganda: Chemical Weapons Attacks In Ghouta, Syria

MEDIA LENS By David Edwards A UN report this month found that, 'Torture and brutality are rife in Libyan prisons ...
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Chomsky: For Almost 70 Years the U.S. Has Been the World Leader in Spreading Destruction and Misery Across the Planet

By Noam Chomsky October 7, 2013 The recent Obama-Putin tiff over American exceptionalism reignited an ongoing debate over the Obama ...
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Giap: the General Who Defeated the US in Vietnam

Brother Van is Dead by CHRIS RAY  “I want to light a stick of incense to farewell my commander,” said ...
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Stone & Kuznick: “We Used Chemical Weapons in Vietnam”

An Interview With Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick by SATOKO OKA NORIMATSU and NARUSAWA MUNEO The Japanese weekly Shukan Kinyobi ...
The real goal is to bring Iran back under US domination. Ending Iran’s nuclear program—or more specifically, its domestic production of nuclear fuel—is only part of the larger goal.

US Aiming Higher than Nuclear Deal in Iran

By Stephen Gowans, what's left US hostility to Iran didn’t begin with the latter enriching uranium. It began in 1979, ...
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