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50 African states meet in Beijing

A two-day meeting on July 19-20 in Beijing was the focus of international attention as ministers from 50 African states…

July 26, 2012

Autoworkers in France protest layoffs, plant closing

Autoworkers are fighting mad over Peugeot’s plan to lay off 8,000 employees and permanently close a key plant in the…

July 23, 2012

The Obama administration’s ‘Greater East’

For 236 years, the U.S. has defended democracy everywhere: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted this in Cairo. Thus…

July 21, 2012

African Union summit faces challenges

With growing threats to the independence and sovereignty of the African continent, the African Union held its 2012 summit in…

July 20, 2012

Rally resists austerity

Miners find massive solidarity in Madrid Hundreds of striking coal miners marched 285 miles from Asturias on Spain’s north coast…

July 19, 2012

U.S. prepares anti-Syria war psychology

The U.S. and its allies are escalating the war fever against Syria. Not only do they claim to have “discovered”…

July 19, 2012

Setback for U.S. war plans in Asia

Mass pressure sinks Korea-Japan military pact Washington’s strategy to cement a military alliance of the U.S., Japan and south Korea…

July 18, 2012

Sham elections in Libya & imperialist plans

Western-based corporate media outlets have proclaimed Mahmoud Elwarfally Jibril the Western-backed National Forces Alliance winner of the first post-Jamahiriya election.…

July 17, 2012

Mass march rejects U.S.-Pakistan deal

A deal in early July papered over frayed relations between U.S. imperialism and Pakistan’s government. But it did little to…

July 17, 2012

Syria: Look who’s talking

[Saying they are] “deeply concerned at the escalation of violence” that threatens to widen the [Syrian] conflict into a regional…

July 17, 2012