Articles by Eric Ruder

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Who’s the Real Aggressor in Korea?
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 22 Apr 2013

U.S. provocations against North Korea are designed to dress up the Pentagon’s “pivot to Asia” as a matter of self-defense.

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The Remote Control War
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 8 Apr 2013

The facts about the new weapon of choice for the U.S. war machine and the deadly impact of drones in conflicts around the globe. Antiwar activists are planning actions in April [2013] to focus attention on a dark and deadly corner of U.S. military operations: The Pentagon’s and the CIA’s massively scaled-up use of drone aircraft around the world.

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Execution by Drone
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 25 Feb 2013

Despite signs of public discontent about the use of drones, the Obama administration is employing them more frequently–and more aggressively. We need real debate, not infomercials, about it–and why we need to challenge the Obama administration’s aggressive assertion of practically unlimited executive powers to assassinate anyone, anywhere in the world.

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Obama’s Drone Wars
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 21 Jan 2013

A New Weapon of Choice in U.S. Wars around the Globe – The U.S. government can use lethal force half a world away by means that would look familiar to any teenage gamer: the joystick and the video screen.

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Our Alternative to the Madness of the Market
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 3 Sep 2012

The Socialist Vision of a Planned Economy

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Unequal under the Law
Eric Ruder interviews Ilan Pappé – Socialist Worker, 5 Dec 2011

The growing global criticism of Israel’s apartheid system provides a ray of hope for Palestinians inside Israel, in the Occupied Territories and beyond.

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What the Palestine Papers Show
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 14 Feb 2011

Leaders of the Palestinian Authority made one historic concession after another, yet locked the Palestinian people into a more subservient position. A mountain of 1,600 leaked documents chronicling years of scandalous betrayals by the Palestinian Authority offers further proof of a conclusion that requires no further proof–that the 18-year-old “peace process” between Israel and the Palestinians that was supposed to create a “viable Palestinian state” is a dead end.

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A VICTORY FOR VIVA PALESTINA
Eric Ruder – Socialist Worker, 9 Jan 2010

Viva Palestina succeeds in bringing humanitarian supplies to Gaza, despite a harrowing assault by Egyptian police.EXACTLY ONE month after departing from London on December 6, the Viva Palestina convoy to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza finally reached its destination, crossing in from Egypt with 518 people, 156 vehicles and all the relief supplies it brought. […]

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WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
Eric Ruder, 13 May 2009

IN A matter of months, the global financial crisis has dramatically reshaped the economic and political landscape around the world. The high priests of global capitalism have scrapped decades of neoliberal orthodoxy, replacing their denunciations of government spending as harmful interference in the free market with calls for trillions in bailout bills and stimulus packages. […]

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