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While the class character of regimes under siege by Western powers is often explored in analyses of imperialist interventions and is frequently invoked to justify them, it neither explains why capitalist imperialist powers intervene nor stands as a justification for their actions.

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On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomed that day’s “strong condemnation” of Syria by a UN Human Rights Council emergency session, and its establishment of a special rapporteur to monitor the situation there

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The war of information in Egypt — one that has been at the heart of this revolution since its inception — is escalating.

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This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took place on September 21, 2011.

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Thousands of field reports filed by private security contractors operating in Iraq have been made available to the public for the first time.

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Say goodbye to Xe. The company formerly known as Blackwater — the world’s most infamous private security corporation — has jettisoned the name it chose in its 2009 rebrand. Now the “security solutions provider” wants to wash away the taint of the 2007 Nisour Square shootings by adopting the new name “Academi.”

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Calvin Gibbs, who made soldiers help him kill civilians and take body part 'trophies', could be out in less than 10 years

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U.S. Marines fire Nov. 11, 2004, on Fallujah with a 155 mm Howitzer. One of the weapons originally designed for this artillery piece was a tactical nuclear weapon (that could include a neutron warhead) designed by Samuel Cohen, to be fired in eastern Europe on Soviet troops during President Ronald Reagan’s term in office.

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Simmering mutual distrust, aggravated by fears that forthcoming elections are being rigged, are seeing many former soldiers – including children – drawn back to their units, according to the head of a respected charity

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The facts of the last 48 hour general strike are historical. For the first time in the last years the greek communist party (KKE) have chosen to be present (in terms of space and time) with every other piece of society that demonstrates at syntagma square.

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Major news agencies are reporting that the former dictator has been killed. Here's the best of the NS archive.

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"After 20 years of war and violence, Somalia has one of the world’s highest rates of mental-health disorders. An estimated one-third of its eight million people are affected by some kind of mental illness, yet there are only three trained psychiatrists in the entire country "

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"During the holy month of Ramadan, the Turkish warplanes and police have killed at least 8 civilians Kurds and arrested 389 while the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke of “reverence” for the holy month Ramadan which has on the contrary witnessed a bloody loss. "

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"Susan Lindauer’s piece of the 9/11 puzzle adds more evidence to support the charge of criminal negligence at the command level and exposes the utter depravity of the Patriot Act."

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" few weeks ago, in a conversation with U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Colonel Tim Nye, Nick Turse -- one of the great investigative reporters on military power and national security -- learned something truly shocking. He found out that, on any given day, American commandos are carrying out secret missions in 70 countries."

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"Details of the story don't add up. Footage of the raid either exists or doesn't. The tale of that night in Abbottabad keeps getting more muddled."

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"The sudden end of the Gaddafi regime some 6 months after the start of the Libyan revolt leaves some difficult questions unanswered for the left."

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"The finishing touches are being added to the myth of the Libya war. A barrage of propaganda is convincing the world that the war is almost over. "

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"Ever since the attacks of 9/11, feminists in the West have increasingly used the theme of the oppression of women in Islam as justification for war and domination. This strategy of using this rhetoric of "saving the women" in the name of "civilization" is an old ploy used many times in the past by Western imperialists, writes Leila Ahmed"

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"Mandatory sonograms, forced lectures by doctors, humiliating permission slips from abusive husbands, paternalistic opinions from Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, uneducated and patently stupid soundbites from Tea Partiers. That’s not the worst. In this newest wave of the war on women, let’s not forget the U.S. government's abortion policies toward women in war."

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