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The UK’s NHS stifled bit by bit—can a socialist island survive in a toxic capitalist sea?
Massive job losses in UK’s National Health Service By Robert Stevens, wsws,org Editors' Note: It's clear the British capitalists and ...
Meet the Bi-Partisan Group of Senators Pressuring Obama to Speed Up Destruction of the Planet
This list is normative—meaning every one of the Senators included in this roster of crooks and malefactors is only an ...
NORWAY, SCOTLAND, AND WHY I WAS WRONG ABOUT THE ARC OF INSOLVENCY
Norway’s state pension fund has topped the United Arab Emirates’ Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) to become the largest sovereign ...
A perverse (but very American) riddle
Our friend Woody NinetyNiner Konopak is quite flummoxed. He explains: I regularly experience a phenomenon that I do NOT understand: ...
Excerpt from The Intellectuals’ Betrayal
Special—Introduction by Gaither Stewart The Intellectuals' Betrayal, an critical essay focusing on the Russian and global intelligentsia is by Aleksandr ...
U.S. Intensifies Military Encirclement of China
By Rick Rozoff The irresponsible expansion of NATO and its conversion to a naked tool for Western (US-led) imperialism is ...
Another Superfluous War
By Uri Avnery, Israeli peace leader November 16, 2012 HOW DID it start? Stupid question. Conflagrations along the ...
Bloodbath in Gaza: Higgins and Lendman—two assessments
Who Started It? The obscenity of this attack reminds us of nothing so much as the Nazis' cowardly and murderous ...
After The Flood: Requiem for a friend, death knell for a dying paradigm
Phil Rockstroh "Personally, I'm done with attempting to persuade idiots by intelligent discourse and fools by plying them with common ...
Life, Death and Deficits
OP-ED COLUMNIST Life, Death and Deficits By PAUL KRUGMAN SUGGESTED BY GLORIA STEVENSON America’s political landscape is infested with many ...
President Cat Food Gets a Second Term
Apparatchiks in a Class War by ROB URIE In coming weeks the recently re-elected Barack Obama will propose trimming the ...
Naked Israeli Aggression
by Stephen Lendman Since 1948, Israel waged varying intensity war on Palestine. Crimes of war, against humanity, and genocide are ...
