World
Right and left face off in Venezuelan legislature
January 15, 2016Since Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela lost its majority in the Dec. 6 legislative election, its battle with right forces has entered a new stage.
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Icy times and rays of hope in Germany
January 15, 2016The influx of immigrants and asylum-seekers--over a million in 2015--has split Germany into two nearly equal halves.
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New bombings raise tensions, repression in Turkey
January 15, 2016A suicide bombing, evidently carried out by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, killed ten German tourists in a historic square in downtown Istanbul, Turkey.
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Israel and Palestine: Occupation, the peace movement, and the international left
January 13, 2016The following is the text of a talk at the meeting of the Federal Committee of Die Linke, the left party of Germany.
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Why the B-52 failed
January 12, 2016I opened my copy of the New York Times to find an article titled, "After 60 Years, B-52's Still Dominate the U.S. Fleet."
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