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Large audience for interview with David North, author of <em>A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016</em> - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/29/nort-s29.html

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIl3p9lD4g

On Wednesday, September 27, the World Socialist Web Site held a live online Facebook interview with David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board, on his recently published book, A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016.
Interview with David North on “A Quarter Century of War"

The interview, hosted by WSWS reporters Andrea Peters and Andre Damon, dealt with a broad range of issues covered in the book and their relationship to contemporary politics.

#états-unis #guerre #armement #géopolitique #hégémonie #monde_unipolaire

Violence escalates in Dagestan amid growing risk of Islamist insurgency - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/15/dage-a15.html

Violence escalates in Dagestan amid growing risk of Islamist insurgency

By Andrea Peters
15 August 2013

Russia’s north Caucasus is wracked by ongoing violence centered in the federal republic of Dagestan. Home to nearly three million people, the geostrategically important region is becoming the focal point of a low-level Islamist insurgency that has spilled over from neighboring Chechnya.

The Kremlin is increasingly concerned about the links between militants of this separatist movement and the Islamist jihadists playing the leading role in the US-backed proxy war in Syria.

#daguestan #russie #islam #ex-urss

Russian government implements austerity as economy falters - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/10/rbud-j10.html

Russian government implements austerity as economy falters
By Andrea Peters
10 July 2013

Russia’s minister of finance, Anton Sulianov, announced Thursday that the state budget is in a crisis. According to official estimates, there is a one trillion ruble ($33 billion) shortfall for 2013 alone, requiring a “budgetary maneuver” (i.e., cuts) in state expenditures over the next three years.

The government proposes to plug the “holes” by deep attacks on the working class, including cutting payments to the state pension fund, decreasing state procurements by five percent, and cutting spending on health care, education, and utilities.

#russie #austérité

Kyrgyzstan imposes state of emergency against mine protest - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/01/kyrg-j01.html

Kyrgyzstan imposes state of emergency against mine protest
By Andrea Peters
1 June 2013

The government of Kyrgyzstan imposed a state of emergency in the northern district of Dzhety Ozul on Friday, in response to ongoing protests against a Canadian-owned mining operation.

Protesters are demanding that Centerra Gold, which operates the Kumtor mine in the Issyk Kul region of the Central Asian country, turn over a greater share of its profits to meet the needs of the local population. They demand that the company, whose first quarter profits soared to $51.4 million from $9.6 million a year earlier, fund roads, schools, water pipelines, and hospital equipment, and provide area residents with jobs and long-term loans. There were also demands that the mine be nationalized.

#kirghizstan #asie_centrale