News and Analysis from the United States
Up to 3,000 Malaysians staged a protest against a rare-earth refinery yesterday over fears of radioactive contamination. The Australian mining company Lynas has been granted a licence to operate the $230m (£145m) plant, which would be the first outside China… Read More ›
(Reuters) – Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident. It said… Read More ›
Eastern Libya declares autonomy Cyrenaica, the eastern region of Libya, has elected a regional congress and declared semi-autonomy from the capital Tripoli. The “blatant call for fragmentation” of the country was condemned by Libya’s ruling NTC. Thousands of major tribal… Read More ›
The article ‘Women’s Day’ by Alexandra Kollontai was published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913. In St Petersburg… Read More ›
Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) founded International Women’s Day on the 8th March, 1911. Clara Zetkin was German born: When Adolf Hitler and his fascist National Socialist German Workers Party with the assistance of the other reactionaries took over power, the Communist… Read More ›
In perhaps the most ambitious viral marketing campaign in the history of the internet, Kony 2012 looks to use the web and social media to hunt down and arrest an indicted war criminal before year’s end. Critics have accused… Read More ›
You must have heard of the viral video created by Invisible Children (IC), a U.S. organization that has launched a one-year campaign (expires December 31, 2012) to eliminate Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel… Read More ›
March 7, 2012 by Bryne Yancey A new blog post from at Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada) sociology and political science student Grant Oyston has called into question the practices of non-profit Invisible Children. In the post, Oyston highlights the… Read More ›
Despite their calls to arrest Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan theocratic guerrilla group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and a wanted war criminal responsible for horrendous atrocities, the makers of the viral video “Kony 2012” from the Invisible Children campaign… Read More ›
I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account”). In response, a number of readers sent me accounts of their own experiences trying to get… Read More ›
History of the Terms “Social-Democracy” and “Social-Fascism” The term “social-democracy” has been used by the left since the time of Marx and Engels. The term is a pejorative one today, since it has become almost synonymous with liberal reformism. About… Read More ›
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due at the White House on Monday, Iran and its nuclear ambitions are again front-and-center on the policy agenda. The Atlantic just posted a report about its interview with President Obama on Wednesday in… Read More ›
A federal judge’s decision to deport a high school valedictorian who has lived in the United States since she was 4 has sparked her Miami community to rally around her. And now student Daniela Pelaez, 18, also seems to have… Read More ›
BEIRUT: Detailed plans developed to carry out military action against Syria have been drawn up by the Pentagon and could be implemented upon orders by President Barack Obama, CNN, quoting a senior U.S. official, has reported. The crucial progress in… Read More ›
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