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Agrarian-based oligarchy exerts control over post-coup Paraguay

January 7, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

The so-called "legal" coup that removed Fernando Lugo from power set the stage for large agricultural corporations to establish control over Paraguay's government.

Cuba – 55 years of ideas and truth

January 6, 2014 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

On January 1, Cubans 2014 marked the 55th anniversary of their revolution's victory.

Today in labor history: Poet Carl Sandburg is born

January 6, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On January 6, 1878: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.

Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer

January 6, 2014 By Emile Schepers

20 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.

Turkey’s crisis: more than meets the eye

January 6, 2014 By Conn Hallinan

The current corruption crisis zeroing in on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyio Erdogan has all the elements of one of his country's famous soap operas that tens of millions of people all over the Middle East...