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Changing captains in Germany’s Left Party
June 11, 2015The Left Party is the only opposition force with any real clout in Germany, so a gathering with representatives of its 60,000 members was important enough.
Read moreUkraine Elections: Free and democratic?
October 28, 2014Sectors of the ultra-right with fascist and Nazi origins were allowed to run riot by the respectable" conservatives who took over the Ukrainian government in February.
Read moreU.S. foreign policy, what is going on?
September 19, 2014The U.S. foots 75 percent of NATO's bill, increasingly hard to do given the enormous costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars, the pivot to Asia, and the war in Syria.
Read moreUkraine crisis the focus of NATO summit this week
September 3, 2014A combination of regular Ukrainian military supplemented by private militias organized by right wing political groups had been bombarding the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Read moreGermany: sanctions and weapons deals, follow the money
September 3, 2014In Germany today, references to Putin evoke all too sharply recollections of German language used against every Russian leader since the start of World War I.
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