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A new world is being born, one without the US dollar greasing the wheels of commerce, notes Eric Walberg
Yekaterinburg, famous tragically as the spot Lenin chose to have the Tsar and his family executed in 1918, and ironically as the fiefdom of Boris Yeltsin, who finished off the Russian... » read this article
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Editor's Note: The Afghan growing resistance forces now controls over 72% of Afghanistan. Let us remember that while the western media has marginalised the resistance with the clever corruption of terms like "Taliban", "insurgency", "terrorists", etc. - they are in fact defending Afghanistan against an invading, occupying army. The imperial... » read this article
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Harvey Thompson , WSWS
13 June 2009
The popularity of Danny Boyle’s recent film, Slumdog Millionaire has led to a surge of media interest in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi which is partially depicted in the film.
An important part of many people’s motivation for going to see the film will have been the... » read this article
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Peter Symonds , WSWS
10 June 2009
The US administration has signalled a more aggressive stance toward North Korea that will only compound an already tense situation in North East Asia.
Speaking in France on Saturday, President Obama declared that the US would take “a very hard look” at its approach following North Korea’s... » read this article
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James Cogan , WSWS
1 June 2009
A little over a month ago, the Pakistani government acquiesced to the demands of the Obama administration to use brute force to eradicate radical Islamist influence in the north-west of the country, as part of the so-called AfPak war to secure American interests in Central Asia. The... » read this article
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Peter Symonds , WSWS
27 May 2009
North Korea’s detonation of a small nuclear bomb on Monday provoked immediate condemnation by the UN Security Council and sharply raised tensions in North East Asia. Pyongyang had been warning of further nuclear weapon and ballistic missile tests for weeks, insisting that the UN had to apologise... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken , WSWS
21 May 2009
The crushing military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been accompanied by immense suffering by the Tamil people of northern Sri Lanka. The merciless offensive carried out by Sri Lankan army and the right-wing regime of Rajapakse has slaughtered thousands, wounded many more,... » read this article
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News report , PRESS TV
Editor's Note: It's interesting that in this report from Press TV, a U.S. Secretary of State, finally admits that the U.S. "created the Taliban in the 1980's to counter the Soviets' influence in the volatile region" in a quasi-justification for the support the CIA gave the Taliban in the 1980s. Hillary... » read this article
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Peter Symonds , WSWS
Editor's Note: According to a NYT article today, the Pakistan military has killed 700 "militants" in SWAT in the last 4 days. Obviously, the military has ceded Pakistan sovereignty to the U.S. under pressure from Richard Holbrooke and Hillary Clinton. Obama, under the guidance and direction of the Council on... » read this article
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Keith Jones , WSWS
5 May 2009
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will undoubtedly come under renewed pressure to allow US military forces to wage war within Pakistan when he visits Washington this week for a trilateral summit meeting with President Obama and Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai.
For weeks, the US political and military establishment... » read this article
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John Chan , WSWS
18 April 2009
The latest growth figure for the Chinese economy released on Thursday has revealed a further slowdown in the first quarter of 2009. The official rate was 6.1 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008—the lowest since quarterly data began to be collected in 1992. The figure... » read this article
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Peter Symonds , WSWS
15 April 2009
The elemental eruption of anger on the streets of Bangkok on Monday has highlighted the political impasse facing the Thai working class. Frustrated at the ruling elite’s contempt for democracy, anti-government protestors, many of them from Bangkok’s poor, fought pitched street battles with heavily armed soldiers, only... » read this article
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NATO backs US escalation of war in Central Asia By Chris Marsden
6 April 2009
The NATO 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, ended with a headline commitment for Europe to provide “up to” 5,000 additional troops for Afghanistan.
This was the smallest commitment the European... » read this article
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Editorial , WSWS
30 March 2009
The new military strategy announced by President Barack Obama in Afghanistan marks a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan and the official transformation of Pakistan into a theater of US military action.
Prepared behind the backs of the American people and with contempt for anti-war opinion... » read this article
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