Speakers in Berlin traced how Germany’s rearmament, US-led violence abroad and the repression of solidarity at home are converging in a dangerous drive toward war. BEN CHACKO reports
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Colin Powell: the ‘nice guy’ who helped destroy a country
The first casualty of war is truth. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the life of Colin Powell, former secretary of state and former top general of the US, says MARC VANDEPITTE
Former US secretary of state Colin Powell
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ALEX GORDON outlines the real battle for workers in Britain and Europe, to break the state capture by arms firms and the new finance-technology capitalists
As Holyrood sets the Budget, the gulf between rich and poor is wider than ever. PETER OLECH of Unite Community Scotland argues that only by taxing extreme wealth can we properly fund public services and deliver justice for working-class communities
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AT the age of 84, Colin Powell has died. He had the image of a dove, but war crimes were hidden behind it.
Powell was national security adviser to Ronald Reagan and the first black commander-in-chief of the US military. In 2001, he became the country’s first black secretary of state.
In personal dealings he was described as a “pleasant” and a “nice” man. To many blacks he was also a role model. That may all be true, but those things do not prevent him from having an extremely bloody track record, laced with war crimes.
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