The struggle by women to stop being treated as men’s property and sexual objects has finally surfaced in the U.S. military. What once was totally swept under the rug — that women, and some men, face a high risk of being sexually assaulted while on duty — has now surfaced to such an extent that [...]
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Military sexual assault: Break the chains of command!
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Deirdre Griswold May 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Here’s how sequester inflicts pain on working class
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Gene Clancy April 29, 2013 » Add the first comment.
It is becoming clear that the highly touted and publicized “sequester” on spending imposed by the federal government is going to be a highly selective and arbitrary process, with working and poor people receiving most of the pain and suffering and pro-big business and military spending going unscathed. After only one week of delays and [...]
Colombians demand peace, end to war on FARC
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Chris Fry April 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
One million Colombians marched in the capital city of Bogotá as well as other cities and towns on April 9 to show their support of peace negotiations between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP). Talks which began in Oslo, Norway, in 2012 are now continuing in Havana, Cuba. Considering that [...]
CIA’s criminal paramilitary actions grew after 9/11
Created in 1947 as a successor to the espionage agency born during World War II for use against the U.S.’s imperialist rivals, Japan and Germany, the Central Intelligence Agency rapidly developed into an international arm of repression for U.S. imperialism against the world’s working-class and liberation movements. It especially targeted the Soviet Union, People’s China [...]
Kerry double-talks as Pentagon stokes war fever
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Fred Goldstein April 15, 2013 » Add the second comment.
As U.S. F-16 and A-10 fighter jets, helicopters and C-130 transport planes powered into the sky from Osan Air Base in south Korea, headed toward the border with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Beijing talking to Chinese government leaders about “reducing tensions” in [...]
Wars are bankrupting U.S.
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Deirdre Griswold April 2, 2013 » Add the first comment.
A new study has proved what many suspected: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been the most expensive in U.S. history, and will continue to drain the budget for decades to come. “The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets,” prepared by Linda J. Bilmes [...]
Stop threatening Korea!
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Editor March 20, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The shadow of war has hung over the Korean peninsula for six decades — almost a lifetime. That is how long the Korean people have been waiting for a peace treaty to be signed since the fighting ended in 1953. By not sitting down with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and agreeing to a [...]
‘Sequester’ hits the fan: Huge cuts ahead as banks get their way
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Deirdre Griswold March 5, 2013 » Add the first comment.
It has finally happened. After many threatened “fiscal cliffs” over the past months, the deadline of Feb. 28 passed that put in motion a 10 percent cut in federal government spending on most “discretionary” budget items. In this fiscal year alone, the federal budget is to be cut by $85 billion. It’s called a “sequester,” [...]
Pentagon spreads anti-China hacking lies
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Fred Goldstein February 25, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Feb. 25 — Dramatic front-page headlines in the New York Times accusing the People’s Liberation Army of China of being behind computer hacking in the U.S. have all the earmarks of a Cold War-style propaganda attack on China. This bellicose attack comes at the same time that new leadership is about to take over in China. [...]
U.S. anti-war movement to discuss imperialist aims in Mali
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Abayomi Azikiwe February 22, 2013 » Add the first comment.
The United National Antiwar Coalition will host an educational conference call on Feb. 24 to discuss the current situation in the West African state of Mali. France invaded Mali on Jan. 11 supported by the United States, Britain and other NATO members. Under the guise of carrying out a humanitarian mission to prevent so-called “al-Qaeda” [...]
