World

By Isabel Kershner From The New York Times JERUSALEM — Israeli naval commandos conducted a deadly raid on a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza on Monday, earning widespread…
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By Robert Naiman Sao Paulo, Brazil - If I were in Washington, I would run down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to Congress with a big Brazilian flag, as the young Brazilians…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited Imagine that the United States were spending an amount that exceeded 60% of its national income on the military and police. (For…
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By Mark Engler From Dissent Magazine Here’s something you don’t see every day: One of the most influential promoters of market fundamentalist “free trade” policies admitting that…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian Unlimited Of all the misunderstandings that guide U.S. foreign policy -- including foreign commercial policy -- perhaps the most important and…
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By Ana Mendoza Segovia (Spain), Sept. 27 –(EFE)– Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has just published a novel, perhaps “the most ambitious” of his works, about the assassination of Russian…
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Of course Chavez's new media law is bad. But it won't make a dent in the huge amount of press freedom in Venezuela. By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian (UK) Denis MacShane attacks…
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China's government is doing a better job than the US at coping with the effects of global economic recession By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian (UK) Global trade and the economic…
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By Hugh O'Shaughnessy Published on Sunday, July 19, 2009 by the Independent/UK The international group of right-wingers who staged the coup d'état against the democratic government of…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian The Obama administration's condemnation of the military coup by graduates of the School of the Americas in Honduras has been lukewarm compared to…
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