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The West snubs Russia over V-E Day
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the end of WWII, the most destructive war in human history. New figures tell us that as many as 70 million people perished in that war--the great...
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Anne Braden: The South's rebel without a pause
Regarding southern white resistance to white supremacy, the story of Anne Braden is perhaps one of the most important contemporary depictions of it all. In fact, with respect to activism overall in the...
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Kissinger and Shultz on "The Iran Deal"
For our edification The Wall Street Journal on 8 April turned over an entire editorial page to former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz so that we could understand why President...
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Remembering the Jewish Resistance
Editor's note: The following piece is our first posted article on this too-often neglected topic. PA will post additional articles in the near future.This will not be a dispassionate academic paper....
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Antiwar vets join the conversation at the Vietnam Wall
Members of Veterans For Peace came from as far away as San Diego to be part of the annual Memorial Day ceremonies at the Vietnam War Memorial on the mall in Washington DC. A wide range of Americans...
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Cuba is off the "terror" list; now overturn Helms-Burton!
The State Department's removal of Cuba from its "terrorism list" marks another huge step towards true normalization of diplomatic relations between our two nations. The US move follows the recent...
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Recognition of gays in the Holocaust comes to America
Heading into the American Bicentennial year of 1976, as a West Hartford, Conn., resident, I spotted press items saying that local Jewish and human rights activists had started efforts to create a...
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Obituary: Professor Walter T. Howard, Ph.D.
Professor Walter T. Howard, 63, a scholar, activist, teacher and organizer, passed away on May 7 in Danville, PA. He had been a patient at the Geisinger Medical Center since April 27.Dr. Howard, the...
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U.S. policy: Courting disaster in Ukraine?
In Ukraine today, the Obama Administration is pursuing a dangerous neo-Cold War policy, overtly supporting a national chauvinist government that seized power in a coup and has used open neo-Nazi groups...
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Reflections on China's claim to the Spratly Islands
Lying in the South China Sea between Indochina and the Philippines is a collection of 700 or so small islands, reefs, atolls, shoals, and rocks which are all very scattered about and collectively known...
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People's poetry: We are workers
Farmers ready to attend a meeting of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (SFTU) 1937 Creative Commons 2.0The New York Times just ran an interesting article on Wisconsin's Governor ScottWalker, his broken...
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Fidel mitn Yidl: Travels to Jewish Cuba and beyond
In late 1995 I became a "professional Jewish liberal." After a depressive couple of years in Los Angeles following the death of a partner to AIDS, and then the loss of a job - frustrating as it was, it...
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China and the global crisis of capitalism
This article was presented by the author at the Left Forum At CUNY in June of this year. First let me say that I am an historian, a Marxist Leninist historian, not an economist. If we are to try to...
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Greece tries democracy: What about the EU?
Editor's note: Having just returned from 12 days in Greece, I feel that I should put some thoughts on the record. These are based on anecdotal evidence and general impressions. I was there as a tourist...
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Expand Social Security; create jobs for youth
Passing the Employ Young Americans Now Act (S.1506) would be an important step in the fight to preserve and expand Social Security.Jobs for youthSenator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders...
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The truth about Christie's New Jersey record: "Where's the beef?"
While Chris Christie campaigns for President, the people of New Jersey continue to suffer the consequences of his disastrous policies. Christie likes to say that he "tells it like it is," a phrase in...
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Poverty and child development: A global issue
Politicians love to tell us that we live in the richest and greatest country in the world despite the fact that our actual ranking when it comes to overall living standards and democratic rights is far...
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The circus is in town, 2015
The author is a Vietnam veteran and an active member of Veterans for Peace. He originally posted this article as part of his occassional series "This can't be happening" under the title "The United...
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Leaning left: recent policy trends in China
Chinese policy today is "leaning left." A center-left government headed by President and General Secretary Xi Jinping is in power, a change from the reform group dominant during 1980s-90s period....
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People's poetry: Road dog
Was it that long ago That I put my pack on my back Walkin to the highway some new seeds to sow Or gettin in that over the road truck , nothin but a sack With all my shit or what little shit I had...
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