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Syria says Israeli attack helps al-QaidaSyria says Israeli attack helps al-Qaida

Syria says Israeli attack helps al-Qaida

“How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force,” Syria President Bashar…

February 4, 2015
Syriza’s first anti-austerity moves hearten massesSyriza’s first anti-austerity moves hearten masses

Syriza’s first anti-austerity moves hearten masses

Maneuvers begin as bankers push back The new left social-democratic government of the Syriza party was swept into office in…

February 2, 2015
Why Washington fuels Ukraine’s war on NovorossiyaWhy Washington fuels Ukraine’s war on Novorossiya

Why Washington fuels Ukraine’s war on Novorossiya

Based on a talk at the Workers World Party Forum in New York on Jan. 23. The rush-hour shelling of…

January 27, 2015
Saudi oil and U.S. hypocrisySaudi oil and U.S. hypocrisy

Saudi oil and U.S. hypocrisy

Few events expose the utter hypocrisy of U.S. politicians’ grand words about democracy so starkly as their praise for the…

January 27, 2015
Anti-Semitism and IslamophobiaAnti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

On Jan. 21, the apartheid Zionist regime of Benjamin Netanyahu was authorized by the United Nations General Assembly to host…

January 26, 2015
Greek voters reject austerityGreek voters reject austerity

Greek voters reject austerity

Voters in Greece’s Jan. 25 parliamentary election rejected the harsh, devastating capitalist austerity program imposed, for the past six years,…

January 26, 2015
Mariupol and imperialist hypocrisyMariupol and imperialist hypocrisy

Mariupol and imperialist hypocrisy

In the early morning hours of Jan. 24, three GRAD missiles struck a residential area on the outskirts of Mariupol,…

January 26, 2015
Despite decline in Ebola cases, global attention neededDespite decline in Ebola cases, global attention needed

Despite decline in Ebola cases, global attention needed

World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan reports that the number of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases are rapidly declining.…

January 26, 2015
WW commentary: Pentagon out of Yemen!WW commentary: Pentagon out of Yemen!

WW commentary: Pentagon out of Yemen!

Yemen, with a population of some 24 million people, is the poorest country in the Middle East. To its north…

January 26, 2015
The disaster of 12 January 2010: 5 years!The disaster of 12 January 2010: 5 years!

The disaster of 12 January 2010: 5 years!

By Isabelle L. Papillon Reprinted with permission from Haiti-Liberté, Jan. 14-20. It was 4:43 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, when…

January 24, 2015