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US militarism marches on
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By Marty Hart-Landsberg August 11, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Republicans and Democrats like to claim that they are on opposite sides of important issues. Of course, depending on which way the wind blows, they sometimes change sides, like over support for free trade and federal deficits. Tragically, however, there is no division when it comes to militarism.
United States: Other revolving doors
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By Don Fitz July 16, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — It’s more than doors between the US government and the businesses that they supposedly regulate that go round and round. One of the other swinging doors is between the Democratic and Republican Parties.
The rise of far-right populism in the world – A ‘morbid symptom’ of our times
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Trump’s new militarism
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During the 2016 US election campaign Donald Trump promised an end to pointless foreign wars and attacked “useless” and massively expensive new military equipment, like the $1.5 trillion Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter. But the Trump presidency has ushered in a new era of militarism, as the United States prepares for high tech, massively violent wars against Russia and China, argues Phil Hearse.
United States: Barre’s hidden history of Italian-American radicalism
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United States: Settler colonialism and the second amendment
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Afrin between the claws of the major powers
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By Cihad Hammy February 2, 2018 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from The Region — In an article I wrote a day before the Turkish state's invasion of Afrin, I intended to scrutinize the underlying ideological structures of the Turkish ruling party (AKP) and the driving force behind the invasion of Afrin. This article will focus more on the role of major powers, mainly US and Russia, in the recent invasion of Afrin and the stances held by the Assad regime and Iran.
United States: Greitens scandal - looking beneath the surface
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Why North Korea developed nuclear bombs
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United States: Where any white police officer can kill any Black man at any time…
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… And the police officer will not go to jail. By Don Fitz September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This is what has sparked protests by thousands of people in St. Louis since September 15. In 2011, St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley fired five to seven shots at Anthony Lamar Smith, killing him. Stockley claimed that Smith was selling drugs, chased him at high speed and shot him to defend himself. The story was briefly reported as another drug deal gone bad and that it was just incidental that the police officer was white and the victim was black.
John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’, eighty years on
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Reviewed by Barry Healy Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
Penguin, 1993 (first published 1937), $8.95 September 23, 2017 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — This year marks the 80th anniversary of Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. At less than 200 pages it carries enormous force as a mythic account of alienation under US capitalism.
United States: Trump’s war on immigrants

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