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Venezuelas Oil Refinery Blaze: Seven Good Reasons to Suspect Sabotage
08.26.2012 :: Latin AmericaOnly 43 days before the Venezuelan presidential election and with President Chavez leading by a persistent margin of 20 percentage points, an explosion and fire at the Amuay refinery killed at least 48 people - half of those were members of the National Guard and destroyed oil facilities producing 645,000 barrels of oil per day.
Notes on Globalization and Class Struggle: Latin America, Europe and Asia
08.19.2012 :: AnalysisIntroduction: The principle axis of the class struggle are found in Latin America, Europe and Asia, each following its own trajectory.
Class Struggle in Present Day Globalized Capitalism
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer :: 08.17.2012 :: AnalysisIntroduction: An examination of the social science scholarship over the past 60 years reveals few, if any, publications discussing the class struggle in anything but theoretical expositions.
The Two Faces of a Police State: Sheltering Tax Evaders, Financial Swindlers and Money Launderers while Policing the Citizens
08.05.2012 :: United StatesNever in the history of the United States have we witnessed crimes committed on the scale and scope of the present day by both private and state elites.