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he World Desk provides easy access to scores of articles focusing on issues of global importance. All our articles are chosen for their comprehensiveness and timeliness. They are all pieces of lasting interest. Keep in mind that new articles are posted continually, and that this selection may not  include all the materials our site carries on a given international topic. The reports and analyses are authored by our editors, and trusted correspondents, associate editors and contributing editors, as well as distinguished colleagues working to defeat the lethal disinformation gushing 24/7 from every corporate-controlled orifice.

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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 ...
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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 ...
Istanbul has a program to secure its schools against earthquakes. Above, construction at the Atakoy Lisesi school.

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., ...
John Yoo, former legal adviser in George W. Bush's Justice Department.

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 ...
Vallejo: Is she really becoming a controversial figure?

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 ...
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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, ...
The smoothest charlatan in decades and a gift to the bourgeoisie.

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 ...
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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 ...
Anne Smedinghoff: a victim f misguided idealism, and cynically exploited to score propaganda points.

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 ...
Irish workers express their affection for the Iron Lady.

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 ...
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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 ...
US. Ambassador William Brownfield: can a guy like this be so dumb, or is he just pretending not to know the difference between faux democracy and the real thing?

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 ...
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