Analysis

                
  • Better late than never?

    Better late than never?

    November 14, 2008

    The New York Times, BBC and numerous other news outlets reported last week that the Bush White House knew — and kept from the American people — that it was indeed Georgia’s U.S.-trained forces that started...

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  • EDITORIAL: Chinas bold move

    EDITORIAL: Chinas bold move

    November 14, 2008

    China, 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...

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  • With Obama election, Fido asks: Can I get a bone?

    With Obama election, Fido asks: Can I get a bone?

    November 13, 2008

    Hi 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...

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  • Israel and the current capitalist crisis

    Israel and the current capitalist crisis

    November 13, 2008

    The 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...

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  • Iraqi Communists: Pact with U.S. must be amended, or well be the first to reject it

    Iraqi Communists: Pact with U.S. must be amended, or well be the first to reject it

    November 12, 2008

    The 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...

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