Richard Becker

Richard Becker is the Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER - Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - Coalition, and the author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, and The Myth of Democracy and the Rule of the Banks.

Analysis

Richard BeckerJuly 3, 2021
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Donald Rumsfeld: war criminal, torturer-in-chief, enemy of the world’s people

Donald Rumsfeld, a primary architect of the criminal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on June 30. Rumsfeld was best…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerMay 22, 2021
636

Palestinians endure, resist after 11 days of U.S.-backed Israeli massacre

Despite the devastating toll taken by the Israeli onslaught, the Palestinian people have emerged with their will to resist unshaken.
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Analysis

Richard BeckerMay 15, 2021
1,190

Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault

In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift. A new…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerMay 15, 2021
1,248

73 years after ‘al-Nakba’ in Palestine

May 15 marks the 60th anniversary of what is billed in the U.S. and Israeli mainstream media as Israel’s "independence,"…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerMarch 5, 2021
3,036

Top Pentagon commander requests astronomical sum of money to prepare for war with China

The funding increase that Davidson is seeking for his command -- not the total allocation -- is greater than the…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerDecember 27, 2020
1,069

Colonial injustice: the pardoning of the Blackwater killers

Along with a motley collection of wealthy swindlers and fraudsters, President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 pardoned four former Blackwater…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerNovember 1, 2020
856

Trump and the tactics of mass disenfranchisement

From Clark County, Nevada to the U.S. Supreme Court, Donald Trump and tens of thousands of his operatives are working…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerJune 11, 2020
594

U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries

What accounts for the horrendous rate of racist police killings in the U.S., far exceeding that in other developed capitalist…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerMarch 19, 2020
310

U.S. & Iraq: The hidden history

Despite all the indescribable horrors they have suffered, the Iraqi people have not given up and will continue their struggle…
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Analysis

Richard BeckerDecember 20, 2019
39

Impeachment: The road to nowhere leads to . . . nowhere

Capping months of mind-numbingly repetitive “debates,” the Democrats in the House of Representatives voted on Dec. 17 to impeach President…
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