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George Orwell Bush strikes yet again. And the “liberal” media and inauthentic opposition of the Democratic Party offer no relevant corrections, as has so often been the case over the last eight...

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In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Much of the region - including the majority of South America - is now run by left governments. These governments have...

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While eastern Canada suffers unseasonable rains, the west enjoys its average warm/hot summer. In the Middle East however, the heat is rising in the geo-political field.

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Pakistan's military dictators never go quietly. Field-Marshal Ayub was removed by a three-month long popular insurrection in March 1969. General Yahya Khan destroyed Pakistan before he departed in...

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Fifty-five years ago this week, in mid-August of 1953, Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq, the prime minister of Iran, was toppled in a royalist coup code-named Operation AJAX by its US and British backers. The...

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In 1970, a Fortune magazine cover story warned the nation: "Much of U.S. medical care, particularly the everyday business of preventing and treating routine illnesses, is inferior in quality,...

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Karl Marx once wrote, "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as...

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the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered by a sober recognition of the ways in which the United States has contributed to the crisis.

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U.S. treatment of the anthrax attacks.

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Analysis of the Commission of Truth and Friendship report on Indonesian atrocities in East Timor.

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On August 4th the Barack Obama Presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the U.S. energy system. In the words of Obama supporter and climate blogger and author Joe Romm,...
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It’s common practice among those of us outside Israel who have been frustrated by the hostility and intimidation we encounter whenever we voice criticism of Israel to point to the fact that there...

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Theatre review...

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One of the wisest pronouncements I have heard in my life was that of an Egyptian general, a few days after Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem...

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Due to endless litigation, conflicting legal technicalities, or inadequate transitional facilities, prisoners who are innocent may find themselves behind bars indefinitely.

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After a struggle that lasted for eight decades, the 4,000 workers at one of the world's largest rubber plantations will receive wage increases, an improvement in work conditions and upgraded...

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Many members of Congress and other political leaders have been bellowing against speculators who they blame for the high price of oil and petrol. According to their story, speculation is the main...

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From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose...

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The period between 1946 and 1952 – under the regimes of Enrique Hertzog (1947-1949), Mamerto Urriolagoitia (1949-1951), and Hugo Ballivián (1951-1952) – came to be known as the sexenio. The...

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As we are on the eve of what may be the most powerful Black achievement in U.S. history, it would be well to examine the history of Black political leadership in this country.
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At the end of July, Alberto Guevara, Nicaragua's Treasury Minister, just back from a successful meeting with the IMF in Washington, remarked, "...now, at a time when we really are beginning to have...

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I have no idea what’s going to happen in November. This presidential election is even more difficult to call than the last two, thanks in part to race.

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Last December I wrote an optimistic cover story for The Nation predicting that "peace advocates will likely have the best funded antiwar message in history" during the coming election year, as...

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One of the major causes of the recent war in Georgia has nothing to do with the historic tensions that make the Caucasus such a flashpoint between east and west. Certainly the long-stranding ethnic...

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It is an image that shocked the world: two young Gypsy children lie dead for three hours on an Italian beach while, feet away, a carefree couple enjoy a leisurely picnic. Dan McDougall travels to...

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After decades of the US being the only superpower, the world is changing.

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Everything now hinges on stopping coal. Whether we prevent runaway climate change largely depends on whether we keep using the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Unless we either leave it in the...

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In his book 'Decolonising the Mind', Ngugi wa Thiong'o (2006) gives the false impression that decolonising one's mind is simply a matter of proudly speaking and writing in indigenous African...
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The Olympics and I have what you could call a conflicted relationship. There’s the beauty of the games, the enjoyment of sports that don’t normally make it onto the sports landscape. Then...

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As a new report forecasts that the 190,000 private contractors in Iraq and neighbouring countries will cost U.S. taxpayers more than 100 billion dollars by the end of 2008, an under-the-radar...

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It's a given that anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is not going to win her race for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's seat in November's congressional elections. But hopefully, attention will be paid to...

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Less than five months after Pakistan installed its first freely elected democratic government following eight years of military rule, it again seems headed for a big crisis. A confrontation of...

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As Philip Giraldi points out in his article "America’s Israeli-Occupied Media ,"1 the Israeli government is continuing its campaign to get the U.S. military to attack Iran or at least give a...

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With Russia, Georgia and the US engaging in a war of words, Matthew Rothschild, Editor of the Progressive believes all three are behaving hypocritically.
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At least eight years late, the Democratic and Republican Presidential campaigns are actually debating U.S. energy policy and what to do about global warming. And not just this week but many times...
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