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ZERO DARK THIRTY—More “Patriotic” Offal from Hollywood: Bigelow Strikes Again
THE ARTIST AS A [CLOSET] PROPAGANDIST The Rise of America's own Leni Riefenstahl—Yay! Dateline: New York, 23 December 2012 PATRICE ...
US desperately tries to set Ukraine against Russia
Alexei Kovalev / A Pravda.ru report Editors' Note: While the American people know little and understand practically nothing of what ...
Behind Skyfall: The Not So Charming Face of 007
By Paul Carline, Associate Editor, The Greanville Post "To Empire, with Love" It’s said there are few safer bets in ...
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 ...
