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Washington’s Global Economic Wars

By Prof. James Petras During most of the past two decades Washington has aggressively launched military and economic wars against at least nine countries, either directly or through its military aid to regional allies and proxies.  US air and ground troops have bombed or invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, …

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Magical Thinking in US Foreign Policy

  Exclusive: The U.S. foreign policy establishment cloaks its desire for global dominance in the language of humanitarianism and “democracy promotion” even when the policies lead to death and chaos, as James W Carden describes. By James W Carden Despite America’s myriad problems domestically and internationally, its geo-strategic position remains …

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Popular Discontent Grows with German Media lies in Ukraine Crisis

Popular Discontent Grows with German Media lies in Ukraine Crisis By Anna Rombach An unprecedented wave of anti-Russian propaganda has dominated the German media in the wake of the US- and German-backed coup in Kiev. Leading publications such as Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitun g and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, …

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Is it the end of Sykes-Picot?

Sykes-Picot Map Is it the end of Sykes-Picot? Patrick Cockburn on the war in Syria and the threat to the Middle East For the first two years of the Syrian civil war foreign leaders regularly predicted that Bashar al-Assad’s government would fall any day. In November 2011, King Abdullah of …

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Pentagon Shoots Down Kerry’s Syria Airstrike Plan

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey Pentagon Shoots Down Kerry’s Syria Airstrike Plan By Jeffrey Goldberg June 18, 2013 Twenty years ago, in a debate over the war in Bosnia, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a challenge to the chairman of …

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