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Obama’s UN speech and the crisis in US policy
BILL VAN AUKEN, wsws.org In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, US President Barack Obama elaborated a ...
Obama tells UN America Opposes Violence to Suppress Dissent
Oh Really?!? by DAVE LINDORFF President Obama’s address to the UN General Assembly was such an astonishing string of brazen ...
Rivals attack Bill de Blasio pro-Sandinista stance [annotated dossier]
Bill de Blasio's stand against Reagan's contra war on Nicaragua The would-be New York mayor's pro-Sandinista activism was in America's ...
How the US’s Somalia Policy Sparked the Kenyan Massacres
How Much More Blowback Will Americans Take Before Crying "Enough"? by SHELDON RICHMAN Last weekend’s hostage-taking — and the murder ...
Understanding Kenya’s Westgate Mall Attack
Savage U.S. Policies by PAUL GOTTINGER The September 21 attack on Westgate shopping mall by al-Shabab militants was an absolutely ...
Obama at the UN: A defense of unilateral aggression
By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org US President Barack Obama delivered his fifth address to an opening session of the United ...
Manufacturing Consent on Syria
The Grand Narrative for War by ANTHONY DiMAGGIO Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky gained much notoriety from their seminal book, ...
Mau-Mau verdict exposes crimes of British imperialism in Kenya
By Jean Shaoul, wsws.org FROM OUR ARCHIVES In a landmark ruling, a judge last month granted three survivors of the ...
We Don’t Gas Children, We Shred Them
Obama’s Grotesque Hypocrisy Over Cluster Munitions by DAVE LINDORFF Syrian civilians and children should count themselves lucky that mass opposition ...
Ending One War, Ending All Wars
By David Swanson We have it in our power to reject the next war and the next war and the ...
Chemical Weapons: a Quiz
by GARY LEUPP 1. Which of the following is the most accurate statement? 1. chemical weapons were first used during ...
Rogue State America
by Stephen Lendman Oxford Dictionaries call rogue states "nation(s) or state(s) regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat ...