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• New Munich agreement

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Neoliberal whitewashing of neo-Nazis in Ukraine There is no such ‘miracle’ that cannot be done with the help of just media whitewashing. As if with a wave of a magic wand, those who were first portrayed as reactionary thugs suddenly… Read More ›

• Editorial: Get off that Bandwagon

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By George Bialek. If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well… Read More ›

• On this day sixty-nine years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Red Army liberators recall shock of Auschwitz By Natalia Reiter With additional reporting by Ron Popeski Dated: 26 Jan 2005 KRAKOW, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) — When 60 years ago Anatoly Shapiro commanded his Red Army troops to secure a… Read More ›

• Not My War

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By Svitlana Tsiberganova Dear activists of Maidan, I understand that you have your mobilization, resistance, and your own war. But every one of your posts and reposts calling “all real men to come out” I associate with a call, voiced from… Read More ›

• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›

• The Real Legacy of Ariel Sharon

  By Victor Vaughn on January 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Former Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Ariel Sharon died on Jan 11th, 2014, after having spent the last eight years in a coma. He was 85 years old. Sharon was directly involved in war crimes and massacres throughout his… Read More ›

• Review of Grover Furr’s “Khrushchev Lied”

  By Alfonso Casal on January 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Alfonso Casal There are certain assumptions one can make, with a high degree of certainty, regarding Grover Furr’s Khrushchev Lied. The first is that, had Furr written a similar book in any area of historical specialization other than Soviet-era… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: Ariel Sharon, Butcher of Beirut, Sabra and Shatila Dead

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

• Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people… Read More ›

• Review of “Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave” (2011)

  By Victor Vaughn on January 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The opening title of Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave (2011) reads: “In 1967 a High School student asked his history teacher how the German people could so easily follow Adolph Hitler. What follows is the result of… Read More ›

• The Crimes of Ariel Sharon

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair Some incorrigible optimists have suggested that only a right-wing extremist of the notoriety of Likud leader Ariel Sharon will have the credentials to broker any sort of lasting settlement with the Palestinians. Maybe… Read More ›

• US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece…. Read More ›

• Lenin Statue Reinstated Hours After Being Toppled by Ukraine Fascists

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  KIEV, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – A statue to Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was toppled in the central Ukrainian town of Vatutino on Sunday night only to be put back in place several hours later, the UNIAN news agency… Read More ›

• Poll: Afghanistan war most unpopular in U.S. history

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Support for the war in Afghanistan has dipped below 20%, according to a new national poll, making the country’s longest military conflict arguably its most unpopular one as well. The CNN/ORC International survey released Monday also indicates that a majority… Read More ›

• Reported sexual assaults in US military jumped by 50% in 2013

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Reported sexual assaults in the US military increased by over 50 percent in 2013, new data reveals. The boost punctuates a year filled with damning disclosures of a culture that has failed to protect the enlisted from systemic levels of… Read More ›

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