Analysis
EDITORIAL: Chinas bold move
November 14, 2008China, hit by the current global economic crisis, with some foreign-operated plants closing down, took immediate, emergency action. Its State Council approved a $586 billion public works program to build new low-cost homes, mass transit and...
Read moreWith Obama election, Fido asks: Can I get a bone?
November 13, 2008Hi all, I'm Fido, a friendly mutt from Chi-town. First things first: I wanna give a big bark out to all my dawgs up in the Animal Care and Control facility — they can't keep us...
Read moreIsrael and the current capitalist crisis
November 13, 2008The financial crisis does not skip over Israel. The country that has been integrating itself in global capitalist markets in the last few decades is once again seeing the ugliest side of capitalism, as the stock...
Read moreIraqi Communists: Pact with U.S. must be amended, or well be the first to reject it
November 12, 2008The latest version of the Iraq-U.S. agreement is “unacceptable” and must be changed to “secure for the Iraqis their legitimate national rights,” the leader of the Iraqi Communist Party told a public meeting of 1,000 people...
Read moreLatin Americas new consensus
November 7, 2008When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship...
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