Asia

In an Associated Press report earlier today, much of the tsunami aid that Sri Lanka is receiving is for the most part useless. Aid workers on the island report that many boxes contain things like winter coats, high-heeled shoes, and thong underwear. One box from Australia even contained bottles of Viagra. While aid workers...
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Earlier today, it was announced by the North Korean government that it was in the possession of nuclear weapons. It is thought that this could be a ploy to instill fear in other countries, particularly in the five countries that had been involved in disarmaments talks with N. Korea. One newspaper has been quoted...
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Socialist Standard, October 1998. Thirty countries covering a quarter of the world’s population are officially in recession. Even defenders of capitalism are now compelled to use the term “world economic crisis”. It had to happen. Given the chronic state of overcapacity and potential overproduction in relation to the market in all the key sectors...
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From the Western Socialist, #1, 1968 From mythological archives comes the legend of the phoenix, a bird of rare and unseemly attainments. After a lengthy and variegated existence, a pervasive act of its own volition caused it to be consumed in fire, and eventually to rise in callow newness from its ashes. Modern Japan...
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