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NATO glorifies its decline
The 25th NATO summit ignored the nagging question which has haunted the Organization since the collapse of the Soviet Union: what is its real utility to the ensemble of its members, outside the United Kingdom and the U.S. Any questions concerning the massacre of 160,000 Libyans or a cessation of the attack on Syria having been disallowed, the heads of state were simply commanded to finance the military industrial complex of the U.S.
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THE HOULA MASSACRE: Opposition Terrorists "Killed Families Loyal to the Government"
The massacre in Houla is being blamed on the Syrian government without a shred of evidence. Based on the comprehensive investigation into the events carried out by Russian news channel Vesti24, this incisive report confirms that crimes against humanity are being committed by terrorist militia. The objective is not only to isolate the al-Assad government politically and economically, but to develop a pretext (…)

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
Barely a month ago, on the radio station Radio Mambi, Orlando Bosch’s widow called for a celebration of the first anniversary of the death of her husband, who had died on April 27th 2011. Her call was received loud and clear, as several hours later, on the (…)

Censorship is dangerous and repugnant because it prevents sensible interlocution, scholarly communication, scholarship, scientific research and science-based rational risk management crucial for human safety.
The New Statesman is leading UK weekly that has a moderately progressive stance. Indeed I have been reading the New Statesman for over 50 years. It provides a welcome alternative to the propaganda of the Establishment-, Neocon American- and Zionist-subverted Mainstream media of the (…)

In the recent elections on May 6, Greek voters sanctioned the coalition forces which had applied austerity plans and surrendered to the dictates of the Troika (the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission). New Democracy and the PASOK (Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement) have thus paid the price of their total submission to Greece’s creditors. The far right party, LAOS, a member of the coalition previously in power, has practically disappeared from the political scene.
The CADTM hails the (…)

Our brother and son, Mahmoud Sarsak, is a 25 years old professional footballer from Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, today entering his 67th day of hunger strike. We ask you to support Mahmoud and his demand for fair treatment. Your voice can contribute to saving his life and to a little victory against injustice.
Mahmoud has been imprisoned by Israel for the past three years, after being arrested by the Israeli military on 22nd July 2009 at the Erez checkpoint in Gaza while on his (…)

In 1973, Dr. Robert Spitzer led the charge to successfully have homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), which is its list of mental disorders. This was a major victory and remains one the gay movement’s signature achievements.
Given his stature and key role in declassifying gay people as sick, it was quite a surprise when Dr. Spitzer published a non-peer reviewed 2001 study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior that claimed (…)

Dear Friend,
I’m writing you in support of one of the top peace candidates for Congress anywhere in the country: the internationally-known and respected antiwar advocate and author, NORMAN SOLOMON. It is important that you help to elect him.
Norman and I have been friends for almost 15 years. He is a powerful intellectual, a gifted writer and an activist who is willing to put himself on the line for the principled causes of peace, justice and the environment.
He will be one unique (…)

The Employment Wall By David Glenn Cox
This year 1,750,000 students will graduate from colleges within the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, last year the economy created only 172,000 jobs requiring college degrees. Or since the collapse of the economy in 2008, US colleges have graduated six million and using 2011 as a bell weather less than 20 percent of those graduates have found a job in their chosen discipline. Fortunately, for government none of these people (…)

[Nb: Stathis KOUVELAKIS is a greek philosopher, teaching at King’s College London, and member of the french left "Front de Gauche". Here is his answer to Garganas http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=28535 ]
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Disagreements are not only normal and, in any case, unavoidable within the left. They can also be productive provided they are formulated in terms that do not excessively distort the positions of the interlocutor.
In a recent issue (…)