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• Pussy Riot says Oligarch Khodorkovsky should replace Putin as president

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Moscow (AFP) – The freed members of the Pussy Riot punk band said Friday they still wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin out of power and would like ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to replace him. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alyokhina, 25,… Read More ›

• Wounded Knee Anniversary: A family remembers

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by JOKAY DOWELL, Oklahoma Native Times Magazine Among Indigenous activist circles it is said that many generations ago ancestors who experienced the loss of life, land, culture and language had prayed for the coming generations to take up their causes… Read More ›

• China planning 110,000-ton ‘super aircraft carrier’ to rival US naval power

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Following Washington’s move to increase its military footprint in Asia, China has declared it is building a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of a size to compete with the mightiest in the US naval fleet. Chinese website qianzhan.com, citing top sources in… Read More ›

• 47,000 Migrants Killed during Transit through Mexico in the last Six Years

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  More than 47.000 migrants, travelling through Mexico, have died during the last six years. The staggering number of lost lives has been reported by the Mexican Institute for Women in Migration. The Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI) is a… Read More ›

• Indonesia and Suharto: how imperialism secures neo-colonies in blood

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  In his book “The Polical Economy of Growth”, Paul Baran reminds us that from the standpoint of the bourgeoisie, feudalism provided wastefulness because of its socioeconomic organization and parasitic functionaries and institutions, while from the standpoint of the feudalist, essential,… Read More ›

• I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. —By Mac McClelland “DON’T TAKE ANYTHING that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at… Read More ›

• Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake – poll

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  More than two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed a majority of citizens in the independent states believe that the split brought nothing but harm, according to a new Gallup poll. Gallup a research-based, global performance-management consulting company released a… Read More ›

• Maoist Insurgency Spreads to Over 40% of India. Mass Poverty and Delhi’s Embrace of Corporate Neoliberalism Fuels Social Uprising

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Asad Ismi On May 25, 2013, Maoist insurgents in the Indian state of Chattisgarh wiped out almost the entire leadership of the Congress Party in that state by killing 28 of its members in an ambush. The Congress Party forms… Read More ›

• Numsa withdraws support for ANC in South Africa

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  South Africa’s biggest trade union has announced that it is withdrawing its support for the ANC ahead of next year’s election – a big blow to the governing party. The 330,000-member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said… Read More ›

• Israel opens dam, flooding Gaza Strip with rainwater

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Israel has opened the Wadi Sofa Dam east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, flooding dozens of houses and leaving hundreds of people homeless. The head of the Gaza government’s Information Office, Ihab Al-Ghusain, told Arabic Sky News that… Read More ›

• Korean Central News Agency Press Release on the Execution of Jang Song Thaek

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Traitor Jang Song Thaek Executed Pyongyang, December 13 (KCNA) — Upon hearing the report on the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the service personnel and people throughout the country… Read More ›

• “Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” by LAURA MILLER Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on… Read More ›

• ‘Whole families murdered’: Syrian rebels execute over 80 civilians outside Damascus

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields. Government forces are continuing… Read More ›

• China becomes third country to land on moon

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday, according to state media. The event marks the first soft-landing on the moon in three decades, joining the USA and former USSR in achieving the feat. China’s official Xinhua news… Read More ›

• The CUNY Wars: How David Petraeus Turned America’s Most Diverse University Into a War Zone

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The general’s presence on campus has sparked protests, arrests and beatings in the streets. By Peter Rugh Want to turn a university into a war zone? Invite General David Petraeus onto campus. Ever since the general showed up at the City… Read More ›

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