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Analysis: Eric Ruder

Challenging the myths of the "good war"

To antiwar U.S. soldiers and ordinary Afghans, the consequences of a sharp increase in foreign troops in Afghanistan are predictable and dire.
The war through Iraqi eyes

Farnaz Fassihi's book Waiting for an Ordinary Day is a unique and much-needed contribution to documenting the horrors of the Iraq war.
Comment: Gregg Shotwell

In defense of autoworkers

A veteran UAW militant takes issue with a proposed auto bailout that would cut tens of thousands of jobs and put retiree health care benefits at risk.
Column: Joe Allen

Bond is Bourne-again

James Bond unexpectedly fights the CIA and various corporate conspiracies in the latest film from the long-running series.
Gentrification in Providence

A Providence company is trying to get millions in tax breaks for a development that will push residents out of their neighborhood.
Is Venezuela's right gaining ground?

While election losses for Hugo Chávez’s party should not be dismissed, implying that there was a resurgence of the right may be misleading.
Views in brief

An LGBT-union alliance | Marriage shouldn't determine our rights | What is the U.S. doing in Congo? | Secrecy needed for Employee Free Choice

Comment: Sherry Wolf

Out, proud and fighting

The film Milk, chronicling the life of murdered gay political leader Harvey Milk, comes at an important time for the movement for LGBT rights.
A coup by any other name

A court ruling dissolving Thailand's elected government was a reward to right-wing and monarchist forces that are determined to roll back democracy.
Column: Paul D'Amato

Putting a human mask on imperialism

Apologists for U.S. intervention talk about "saving" another country by invading it, but this ignores America's brutal history.
Column: John Pilger

A surreal human rights lecture

Is there a bigger irony than the British Foreign Office celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Editorials

Is this where change will come from?

The Obama administration is filling up fast with recycled Clintonites and Republican holdovers, but don't expect a rerun of Bill Clinton's presidency.
Charges dropped in IVAW debate protest

In a victory for antiwar activists, the Nassau County prosecutors' office agreed to dismiss all charges against the Hempstead 15.
Comment: Laura Lising

Spied on because of our ideas

Being a socialist is why I fight against the death penalty and the war--and why the Maryland State Police placed me in a federal database with the label of "terrorist."
Ten socialist classics

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Lenin showed how colonial expansion and imperialist rivalry were rooted in profound changes in the nature of capitalism.
Cambridge vigil for LGBT rights

Activists held a vigil before the screening of the new movie Milk in support of the newly resurgent movement for gay rights.
Seattle protest against recruiters

Antiwar activists at Seattle Central Community College organized the first counter-recruitment protest at the school in over three years.

Analysis: Nagesh Rao

After the Mumbai attacks

The Indian government is escalating tensions with its nuclear-armed rival Pakistan by blaming it for supporting the Mumbai attackers.
Column: John Pilger

A nation made into unpeople

In an act of mass kidnapping, the British government expelled the entire population of the Chagos Archipelago so Diego Garcia could be given to the U.S.
Statement

Three Venezuelan unionists assassinated

Three union leaders and socialists were gunned down in Venezuela after participating in a labor dispute at a Colombian-owned factory.

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