Politics
The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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Right-wingers in Europe use Trump to justify higher military spending
December 20, 2024Former Maoist and Portuguese Prime Minister José Barroso is one of the key figures working to put Europe on a war footing.
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‘President’ Musk gets his lapdog Trump to push for government shutdown
December 19, 2024Musk, who purchased the president-elect for half a trillion dollars in campaign contributions, also threatens GOP reps with primaries if they don’t go along with lifting the debt ceiling now.
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General Motors’ 1991 Christmas Massacre: 21 plants, 74,000 jobs gone
December 19, 2024At Christmastime in 1991, GM boss Robert Stempel became the new Ebenezer Scrooge.
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1951: Truman launches propaganda campaign to distract from ‘We Charge Genocide’ petition
December 18, 2024As William L. Patterson and Paul Robeson were about to expose the crimes of the U.S. government against Black Americans, the Truman administration lied, telling the world that Black life was great in America.
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