International
Shi’ite-Communist coalition wins most seats in Iraq election
June 1, 2018The Iraqi Communist Party's Salam Ali explains how the Sairoun Alliance managed to buck the sectarian trap.
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Italy’s political crisis spotlights EU’s lack of democracy
May 31, 2018EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger says: “The markets will teach Italy how to vote properly.”
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FARC Leader Santrich faces extradition; Colombian peace process in peril
May 4, 2018“The regime confronting us for more than half a century hasn’t changed its character of injustice. This means that spaces for democratic struggle are still closed."
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Trump: Another president trampling on international and U.S. law
April 23, 2018History teaches us to question whenever a U.S. president claims that an announced military action is to preserve peace, freedom, and democracy.
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Hopeless in Gaza? A talk with scholar Norman Finkelstein
March 29, 2018“The nadir of the Palestinian struggle is now,” says distinguished but controversial scholar Norman G. Finkelstein.
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