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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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Chris Hedges , Truthdig
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of economic and political decline in the United States. And it signals the last gasp of the American imperium. That’s over. It is not coming back. And what... » 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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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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Editorial , AP/CNN
Editor's Note: The move toward socialism takes many strange, unexpected twists and turns. - LMB
BEIJING, China (AP) -- China will want a bigger say in any new global financial order emerging from the current economic crisis but will likely move cautiously in contributing to a proposed bailout fund for... » read this article
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John Chan , WSWS
China’s military and strategic assessment, “National Defence in 2006”, published in late December, is a highly political document that reflects Beijing’s reaction to growing Great Power rivalry.
The White Paper, the fifth since 1998, is largely a response to increasing pressure from Washington. Since Bush came to power in 2001,... » read this article
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John Chan , WSWS
The Chinese government issued a new emergency response plan in mid-November, allowing the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to directly intervene to suppress protests of workers and peasants. The plan indicates that preparations are being made to use the army for such purposes for the first time since the Tiananmen Square... » read this article
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News Report , Gulf-Times
MOBILE EXECUTION CHAMBER: Chinese police lead a condemned man into a special execution van, where he will be put to death immediately following his sentencing by a court, in Xian, central China’s Shaanxi province. An anti-capital punishment group reported at least 5,000 of the 5,476 known executions worldwide in... » read this article
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News Report , Gulf-Times
MOBILE EXECUTION CHAMBER: Chinese police lead a condemned man into a special execution van, where he will be put to death immediately following his sentencing by a court, in Xian, central China’s Shaanxi province. An anti-capital punishment group reported at least 5,000 of the 5,476 known executions worldwide in... » read this article
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