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• Should Occupy Use Violence?

  By The Red Phoenix on March 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I Dunno, Should the Cops? by KEVIN CARSON Back in the mid-1980s, when the African National Congress was still fighting the South Africa’s apartheid regime, I recall Secretary of State George Schultz testifying before some Senate committee. He clutched his… Read More ›

• As Eastern Libya Calls for Autonomy, A Middle East Analyst Warns of Crisis

  By The Red Phoenix on March 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  by Douglas Mpuga A decision by a group of civic leaders in the Libyan eastern city of Benghazi to declare autonomy from central rule has raised fears that the country might break apart. Some politicians and residents of Benghazi this… Read More ›

• Protesters try to stop Malaysian rare-earth plant

  By The Red Phoenix on March 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Up to 3,000 Malaysians staged a protest against a rare-earth refinery yesterday over fears of radioactive contamination. The Australian mining company Lynas has been granted a licence to operate the $230m (£145m) plant, which would be the first outside China… Read More ›

• Afghanistan demands NATO put Koran-burners on trial

  By The Red Phoenix on March 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident. It said… Read More ›

• Worth a Thousand Words: Kony 2012

  By The Red Phoenix on March 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Alexandra Kollontai: ‘Women’s Day’ February 1913

  By The Red Phoenix on March 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The article ‘Women’s Day’ by Alexandra Kollontai was published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913. In St Petersburg… Read More ›

• Clara Zetkin on Organizing Women Workers

  By The Red Phoenix on March 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) founded International Women’s Day on the 8th March, 1911. Clara Zetkin was German born: When Adolf Hitler and his fascist National Socialist German Workers Party with the assistance of the other reactionaries took over power, the Communist… Read More ›

• Charity’s Contras: Invisible Children (Kony 2012)’s Support of Death Squads, Child Soldiers and Genocide

  By The Red Phoenix on March 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Despite their calls to arrest Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan theocratic guerrilla group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and a wanted war criminal responsible for horrendous atrocities, the makers of the viral video “Kony 2012” from the Invisible Children campaign… Read More ›

• Free Market Health Care: True Stories by Michael Parenti

  By The Red Phoenix on March 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I recently wrote an article about my personal experiences in dealing with the medical system while undergoing surgery (“Free Market Medicine: A Personal Account”). In response, a number of readers sent me accounts of their own experiences trying to get… Read More ›

• Juan Perón and Social-Fascism in Argentina

  By The Red Phoenix on March 5, 2012

  

  History of the Terms “Social-Democracy” and “Social-Fascism” The term “social-democracy” has been used by the left since the time of Marx and Engels. The term is a pejorative one today, since it has become almost synonymous with liberal reformism. About… Read More ›

• On Iran, Obama Says ‘I Don’t Bluff’ And ‘All Options Are On The Table’

  By The Red Phoenix on March 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due at the White House on Monday, Iran and its nuclear ambitions are again front-and-center on the policy agenda. The Atlantic just posted a report about its interview with President Obama on Wednesday in… Read More ›

• US Military Draws Up Invasion Plans for Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on March 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  BEIRUT: Detailed plans developed to carry out military action against Syria have been drawn up by the Pentagon and could be implemented upon orders by President Barack Obama, CNN, quoting a senior U.S. official, has reported. The crucial progress in… Read More ›

• One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers

  By The Red Phoenix on March 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Maybe Patrick Bateman wasn’t such an outlier. One out of every 10 Wall Street employees is likely a clinical psychopath, writes journalist Sherree DeCovny in an upcoming issue of the trade publication CFA Magazine (subscription required). In the general population… Read More ›

• Judge Who Emailed Racist Obama Joke Calls For Investigation On Himself

  By The Red Phoenix on March 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull says he will apologize to President Obama and ask for a panel of judges to investigate his conduct after a Montana newspaper reported he had sent a racially inflammatory message using his courthouse email account… Read More ›

• ‘The blackest lie in history’: Republican congressional candidate says the Holocaust never happened

  By The Red Phoenix on March 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  -Illinois candidate Arthur Jones, 64, ‘organises Nazi events to celebrate Hitler’s birthday’ -‘The Holocaust is an international extortion racket’ -Candidate has spent life savings on congressional run A congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming Illinois primary says… Read More ›