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Operation Breakthrough: The story behind Big Miracle
From our archives: Setting the record straight> Articles you should have read the first time around, but missed. Campbell Plowden, Greenpeace International To mark the launch of new movie, Big Miracle (2012) starring Drew Barrymore, about the 1988 rescue of grey ...
US threatens Iran, Hezbollah for backing Syria
By Chris Marsden, wsws.org The White House issued its most threatening statement yet yesterday, denouncing Iran and the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah as “partners in tyranny” for their support of the Assad regime in Syria. This week, Syrian government forces ...
Israel Threatens Russia
by Stephen Lendman Israel gives chutzpah new meaning. War on humanity defines its agenda. It's partnered with Washington's war on Syria. It's heading perhaps toward greater intervention. It warned Russia about supplying Syria with sophisticated defensive anti-aircraft missiles. It said ...
Russians pick best ruler of USSR and pre-Putin Russia
SOURCE: Pravda.ru Among all leaders of the Soviet Union and the pre-Putin Russia, Russians are most positive about Leonid Brezhnev. As many as 56 percent of respondents praised his work while 29 percent said that they shared a negative attitude ...
Putin v. Obama et al
by Stephen Lendman On May 16, the Wall Street Journal headlined "Russia Raises Stakes in Syria," saying: Russia "sent a dozen or more warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Syria, a buildup that US and European officials see as ...
Why America May Be the Last Empire
TomDispatch [1] / By Tom Engelhardt [2] To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here [3]. It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, ...
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If Vladimir Putin is described as a war criminal, thug, dictator, and modern-day Hitler, it is appropriate and indeed necessary to ask about American presidents. For brevity’s sake consider only those American presidents who served since 2001. U.S. invasions and interventions in western Asia, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa have displaced more than 37 million people since the “war on terror” began. Why shouldn’t George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden be called war criminals too? Silence in the face of their criminality gives license and approval to U.S. aggression.