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The Mindset of North Korean Elites
What's Really Going On? by GARY LEUPP, CounterPunch.org The Dior handbag proves the leadership is not as cluelessly disconnected from ...
The Boston Marathon Bombing, Drones and the Meaning of Cowardice
America the Blind Besides the homegrown terrorists, the American government keeps sowing a huge storm of "blowback" through its nonstop ...
Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones
ARCHIVES— Originally posted: February 25, 2010 Editor's Note: Recent earthquakes in Haiti, Iran, Turkey , China, Japan, Mexico, Chile, etc., ...
Russia Bars Bush-Era Torture Lawyers
By Robert Parry Washington and Moscow exchanged lists imposing sanctions on each other's officials accused of human rights crimes. But ...
Hundreds of thousands of students march in Chile for education rights
By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org An estimated quarter of a million students joined in demonstrations Thursday across Chile to press ...
Barack Obama: The “Great Pretender”, Orchestrator of the Grand Betrayal
Editors Note: Ah...Barack Obama. Easily the greatest illusionist of all in recent history. We spotted this phony back in 2004, ...
Why Obama Wants Cuts In Social Security Benefits
By Eric Zuesse—— ••••••Hardly surprising— Obama's planning to fund the ongoing Wall Street bailouts by raiding Social Security, Medicare and ...
Obama’s War on Social America
by Stephen Lendman Obama, Republicans and most democrats are in lockstep. They claim Medicare and Social Security are going broke ...
OpEds: The brutal face of neocolonialism in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, wsws.org US Secretary of State John Kerry has made a series of public statements ostensibly in ...
OPEDS: Thatcher’s legacy
By Julie Hyland and Chris Marsden, wsws.org Margaret Thatcher, the friend of Chile’s fascist dictator General Augusto Pinochet and supporter of ...
Bursting the Thatcher Bubble
—By David Corn, Mother Jones Martin Argles/eyevine/ZUMAPress The canonization of Margaret Thatcher began with nanoseconds of news reports that the former ...
Blum’s Anti-Empire Report #115 [April 8th, 2013]
By William Blum – Published April 8th, 2013 Would you believe that the United States tried to do something that ...