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/ 7 November 2009
Noam Chomsky is the West’s most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media.
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/ 12 January 2009
As the real world recession kicks in, the ideologues of capitalism are scaring themselves with spectres.
There is no question that the struggle over land and power in Zimbabwe has brought the country to a grim pass. Nearly a decade after the takeover of white-owned farms and the rupture with the West, economic breakdown, hyperinflation, sanctions and Aids have taken a heavy toll. With the expectation now that a second round of elections, mired in claims of fraud, may after all keep President Robert Mugabe in power, the prospect must be of continued economic punishment and crisis.
The attempt by Western politicians and media to present this week’s carnage in the Gaza Strip as a legitimate act of Israeli self-defence — or at best the latest phase of a wearisome conflict between two somehow equivalent sides — has reached Alice-in-Wonderland proportions, writes Seumas Milne.
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/ 27 February 2006
Fifteen years after communism was officially pronounced dead, its spectre seems once again to be haunting Europe. In January, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly voted to condemn the ”crimes of totalitarian communist regimes”, linking them with Nazism and complaining that communist parties are still ”legal and active in some countries”.
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/ 25 January 2005
They are routinely described by the international media as Iraq’s first free and democratic elections. But, in reality, the elections are likely at best to be irrelevant, at worst to plunge Iraq deeper into the abyss. Both common sense and first principles dictate that no election in a country invaded and controlled by foreign troops can be regarded as free and fair.