Editors’ Note: The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall produced, above all in the US corporate media, a wave of self-congratulatory, triumphalist rhetoric by the ideologues of capitalism, much of which...
Read MoreThe GDR was more democratic, in the original and substantive sense of the word, than eastern Germany was before 1949 and than the former East Germany has become since the Berlin Wall was opened in 1989. It was also more...
Read MoreCanadaÂs Peace Magazine and the promotion of non-military warfare in the service of US foreign policy goals While apparently possessing impeccable leftwing credentials, the Canadian publication, Peace Magazine, is a bulwark of...
Read MoreUnited4Iran, which describes itself as Âa non-partisan collaborative of individuals and human rights organizations whose Âaim is to support the Iranian peopleÂs human rights, has organized a Global Day of Action for July...
Read MoreThe view of many parts of the Western left on the disputed presidential election in Iran and subsequent upheavals seems to have been influenced by an understandable distaste for the obscurantist and misogynistic elements of...
Read MoreThe crisis in Zimbabwe has intensified. Inflation is incalculably high. The central bank limits – to an inadequate level – the amount of money Zimbabweans can withdraw from their bank accounts daily. Unarmed soldiers riot,...
Read MoreOn August 4, 2008, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin phoned US assistant secretary of state Daniel Fried to complain about the build-up of Georgian troops in the vicinity of South Ossetia. [1] Two days...
Read MoreThis is a war between revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries; between nationalists and quislings; between Zimbabwean patriots and the US and Britain. Should an election be carried out when a country is under sanctions and...
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