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UMWA International District 20 Vice President Larry Spencer led a group of union executives in an assault that included a threat to kill one of the podcasters, who they believed were associated with the World Socialist Web Site .

Michael McDowell: Respect for truth is being hacked to pieces Diversion of Ryanair flight by Belarus a reminder of contempt for democratic values Wed, May 26, 2021, 01:00 Michael McDowell Roman Protasevich in detention in Minsk. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilniu...

Breakthroughs can happen when all sides are reeling, as they are now.

Leon Trotsky once supposedly observed, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” To President Joe Biden I’d say today, “You may not be interested in Middle East peacemaking, but Middle East peacemaking is interested in you.” Here’s why: All three key players in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been dealt... Read more »

Sedat Peker’s videos have become a sensation, each one eagerly anticipated, all of them earning millions of views.

(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By now, anyone who doesn’t know that polls are tools for manipulating public opinion, not for discovering what public opinion is, simply hasn’t been paying attention. And when poll results are published under the headline “The Big Lie: Over half of Republicans believe Donald Trump is the actual President of the United States,” it’s clear that we’re not dealing with honest brokers. With the recent news out of Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and...

A mobster’s online confessions are shaking Erdogan’s government. Turkey is riveted. Kareem Fahim © Mustafa Kamaci/AP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks following his cabinet meeting in Ankara, Turkey on May 17, ISTANBUL —The videos are set in a tidy hotel room, with props such as prayer beads and books arranged just so. Host Sedat Peker is garrulous, menacing and more than a little grandiose. His stories — about the nexus of organized crime and politics in...

Empire unmasked Print edition : December 31, 2010 T+ T- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a news conference in London on October 23. He was arrested on December 7 after a Swedish court issued a warrant against him on a molestation charge. Photo: Lennart Preiss / AP U.S. President Barack Obama. The disclosure of documents "has resulted in damage to our national security", said the administration. Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP THE WIKILEAKS HOME page as viewed in Washington on December 3. The Wh...

The WikiLeaks cables expose the duplicity in American diplomacy and send shudders across world capitals.

“I’m disgusted by this. Trotsky was a genius and he always worked for the working class” Leader of 1983-86 Phelps Dodge miners strike Jorge O’Leary denounces DSA’s celebration of Trotsky’s assassination On Tuesday, the World Socialist Web Sitereported that numerous prominent leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) engaged in a coordinated Twitter campaign celebrating the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City on August 20, 1940. Many of the tweets by DSA leaders...