1. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...re treading familiar turf. The immediate origins of the current meltdown l...

2. Bolivian Political Crisis
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...APTDEA trade agreement between the U.S. and Bolivia. This was how the story was reported in the Bolivian media. Congressman Engel's office e-mailed me with this clarification: Cong. Eliot Engel h...

3. Saakashvili?s Statement on Russia? Action
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...rder. Together we must stand against this aggression and call on you for your assistance and immediate reaction. This is a test for the entire world and a test for our collective ...

4. Climate Camp Besieges Power Station in UK
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...e water board to install a water supply at the entrance of the camp. It was also the first day for the media to come on site and be shown around. The temporary Field IMC at the Camp for Climate Act...

5. China and Tibet: the true path
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... The most efficient route to peace in Tibet is through the Dalai Lama, whose return to Tibet would immediately alleviate a number of problems. Much of the current ill-will, after all, is a direc...

6. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
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by Paul Rogers There have been many suggestions among media and military analysts since 2003 of possible parallels between the war in Iraq and the United States imbroglio in Vietnam that e

7. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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...ss depression. The institutions most susceptible to the siren voices of the finance sector are in immediate danger. They include banks that have gambled by lending recklessly (estimates range fro...

8. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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...ld be hard to argue that we weren't at least partly to blame. Yes, the mass murder would have more immediate authors than the United States of America, but we would undeniably be responsible, at l...

9. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...tate oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PdVSA), where presidential control is absolute and no media prying is tolerated. It would appear that the next step is the creation of 25,000 communi...