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Matt Taibbi | “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap“
In his new book, Matt Taibbi explains how two of the most troubling trends in the United States are interwoven: economic inequality and mass incarceration. Wealth can merit an …
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Noam Chomsky | Red Lines in Ukraine and Elsewhere
This era's most extreme international crime, the US-UK invasion of Iraq, was not a break in world order because the aggressors didn't cross Russian or Chinese red lines. In …
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The Economic Plans of the Kiev Government Will Spell Ruin for a Great Many in Ukraine
Ukraine's “turn to the West,” together with the effects of austerity, will deindustrialize Ukraine and turn it into an agricultural appendage of the EU.
As Unrest Grows, Is Ukraine Paying the Price of US-Russian Ties Stuck in Cold War Era?
The United States and the European Union have imposed new sanctions on Russia, and the moves come as the crisis in eastern Ukraine faces continued chaos.
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NATO and Ukraine Government Escalate Threats Against Russian and Ukrainian People
The popular, proletarian protest movement with strong social justice aspirations in eastern Ukraine has acted judiciously, avoiding needless violence.
The West Marches East: The US-NATO Strategy to Isolate Russia
For the past quarter-century, Russia has stood and watched as the United States, NATO, and the European Union have advanced their borders and sphere of influence eastwards to Russia's …
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Looking Back on Easter 2014 – And Forward to Easter Next
The vast majority of our leaders and lawmakers do not yet seem to understand that national interest can no longer be at cross-purposes with planetary interest.
Evidence for Russian Involvement in East Ukraine Based on Shoddy Journalism
Robert Parry: The Obama administration and Kiev government claimed that Russian soldiers were present at the building occupations, yet it turns out that this was assertion based on photos …
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“Russia With Love”: Alaska Gas Scandal Is Out-of-Country, Not Out-of-State
The question of who owns Alaska's natural gas and where they're from, at least for now, has been off the table.
Trying Not to Give Peace a Chance
The trust between President Obama and President Putin helped avert a US war on Syria and got Iran to agree to limit its nuclear program, but the neocon-driven crisis …