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Henry Kissinger: Snake Oil Salesman of Gangster Realism

“‘He’ll have ye smilin’,” an old Irish saying goes, “while he takes the gold out of your teeth’.” Charles Glass, London Review of Books, Oct 20, 2022 The obituaries of criminals, masterful or otherwise, are always going to be sordid matters. Either one has time for the deeds, giving column …

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Infamous War Criminal Henry Kissinger Dead

Infamous war criminal, former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger passed away at age 100 on Wednesday. The renowned diplomat, and infamous to many people in the Third World, died at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, said in a statement. The …

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The bombing of hospitals and local violence dynamics
in civil wars

Can coercive airpower quell a rebellion? Existing literature on the effects of counterinsurgentviolence focuses predominantly on casualties resulting from attacks on civilians. It thusoverlooks the targeting of civilian infrastructure, which is a frequent phenomenon in war. We fillthis gap by examining the targeting of healthcare as one of the most …

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Azerbaijan Escalates ‘US Spy’ Rhetoric, Arrests Another Journalist

Azerbaijan’s pro-government media has been ramping up its anti-U.S. rhetoric and the government is publicly musing about banning the activities of USAID, the U.S. government’s international development arm. A campaign against supposed “U.S. spies” continued with the arrest of a fourth media manager in a week’s time. The sharp anti-U.S. …

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Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy

Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government (including representative-electoral) coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other. The revolutionaries who overthrew other systems to establish capitalism sometimes meant …

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