Perspectives
Australia lines up with US for war with China
By Peter Symonds, February 11, 2012
The Australian defence posture report is the latest sign of the Obama administration’s aggressive push against China on all fronts.
The looting of the Greek working class
By Peter Schwarz, February 10, 2012
The “troika” of the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank is demanding no less than the complete ruination of the Greek working class.
Fight Ontario Caterpillar plant closure! Unite North American workers against wage-cutting!
By Keith Jones, February 9, 2012
Caterpillar's decision to close its London, Ontario locomotive plant exemplifies the ruthlessness of big business and the urgency of workers in North America and around the world uniting their struggles against the corporate offensive on jobs, wages and workers’ rights.
Syria and the seeds of world war
By Bill Van Auken, February 8, 2012
The Russian-Chinese veto of a UN resolution paving the way for intervention in Syria has provoked a furious reaction from the United States and its imperialist allies.
CIA drones target rescue workers, mourners
By Patrick Martin, February 7, 2012
An investigation by British and Pakistani journalists found that the CIA followed up drone missile strikes with further attacks that targeted rescue workers and funerals.
US war provocations against Syria
By Alex Lantier, February 6, 2012
Washington and its imperialist allies in Europe are escalating preparations for a full-scale military intervention in Syria.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation debacle and the US establishment
By Kate Randall, February 4, 2012
The announcement this week by the Susan G. Komen Foundation that it would cut off funding to Planned Parenthood unleashed a popular backlash.
Europe placed under the dictatorship of the banks
By Chris Marsden, February 3, 2012
The defining event of this week’s European Union summit was not what was finally discussed, but the proposal that was sidelined.
Obama publicly embraces drone killings
By Bill Van Auken, February 2, 2012
President Obama is deliberately embracing and thereby seeking to justify and normalize the criminal actions of the US military-intelligence apparatus.
Torture in Libya: The ugly reality of imperialist “liberation”
By Bill Van Auken, February 1, 2012
The multiple reports of torture in the detention centers run by the new imperialist-backed Libyan regime and NATO’s “rebels” give the lie to all those who justified last year’s war in the name of human rights and “liberation.”
The New York Times and the drive to war against Iran
By Barry Grey, January 31, 2012
The New York Times on Sunday published a lengthy article in its weekly magazine that sympathetically and clinically lays out the arguments of Israeli policy makers in favor of a military attack on Iran sometime this year.
US tightens the military noose around China
By Joseph Santolan, January 30, 2012
Washington’s talks with Manila over an expanded US military presence in the Philippines are another step in Obama’s reckless strategy of containing China.
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