On a Tuesday morning in June, using a captured soldier as the pretext, Israel sent missiles, tanks, aircraft and soldiers into the Gaza Strip, murdering Palestinian civilians, wrecking bridges and… Read more »
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Afghanistan: Rage breaks out against the occupation
With media in the United States reporting daily about Iraq, one wonders about Afghanistan, the other international target of the U.S. “war on terror.” No news is good news, right?… Read more »
Israel’s war against Lebanon
The devastation and occupation of Lebanon shows once again that the historic dilemmas of one oppressed people cannot be resolved at the expense of another oppressed people. For Lebanon is… Read more »
Afghanistan: occupied, ripped off, and raging
After five years, George W. Bush’s “new era of hope” in Afghanistan is nothing more than a new era of hype. The U.S. began bombing Afghanistan in 2001, immediately after… Read more »
Israel’s economic siege of Palestine fuels fratricidal conflict between Hamas and Fatah
The article below appeared in the January 2007 issue of Socialist Action. It offers a clear-sighted analysis of the reasons for the tensions between Hamas and Fatah and the role… Read more »
Iraq: U.S. oil industry closes in on the prize
In 1999, Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney stuck his head in the sand and saw dollar signs. He called it “the prize”: billions of barrels of Middle Eastern oil. Now, Vice… Read more »
Paying the price on the home front for the occupation of Iraq
Tanks on the streets, bombed-out neighborhoods, continuous civilian deaths and rising soldier body counts make the war in Iraq hard to ignore. Unreported and not as bloody, but taking another… Read more »
Stop the war on workers at home and abroad!
The people of today are living through a world war — not one big conflict, but a war in pieces all over the globe. Iraqis live in a free-fire zone,… Read more »
What to make of Israel’s pro-imperialist critics?
As a child in religious school, I was taught that Israel is like a giant fallout shelter I could run to if the Nazis came back. I was told that… Read more »
Cuba and Iran stand up to the U.S. bully
By tightening economic sanctions against Iran and brazenly promoting forcible regime change in Cuba, Bush & Co. are also sending a warning to other countries: “Do as we command, or… Read more »
