The current crisis in Mali is a product of French colonialism, and their intervention will sadly create more blowback. The present intervention in Mali, however necessary and well-intentioned it is, may produce its own blowback [Reuters] The dispatching of French… Read More ›
American Party of Labor
Mali forces accused of myriad abuses in Western-backed fight
Malian soldiers patrol in a street of Diabaly on January 23, 2013 (AFP Photo / Eric Feferberg) Mali’s army has been carrying out summary executions in its war with Islamist rebels, an international human rights group claims. Meanwhile Russia’s FM… Read More ›
Stacey Campfield, Tennessee GOP Lawmaker, Wants To Tie Welfare Benefits To Children’s Grades
By Nick Wing Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield (R) introduced a bill this week seeking to make welfare benefits contingent upon the grades of a would-be recipient’s children. Campfield’s legislation, filed Thursday, would “require the reduction of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families… Read More ›
APL Speech from 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protest against Golden Dawn in Chicago
Greetings fellow anti-fascists and comrades. Welcome to this solidarity action with immigrant rights groups and anti-fascists in Athens, across Greece and around the world. We have a few speakers today who will talk about Greece’s critical struggle against the rising… Read More ›
Speech & Photos from 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protest in Chicago against Golden Dawn
The following statement was read aloud by the comrades of the No Golden Dawn in Chicago Working Group in front of the Greek consulate NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com | http://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | @NoGoldenDawnChi | 312-446-4939 January 19, 2013 The Honorable Ioanna Efthymiadou Consul General in… Read More ›
A Call for International Solidarity for the 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protests against Golden Dawn
Chicago/Greece Anti-Fascist Working Group Press Contact: Chris Geovanis, chrisgeovanis@gmail.com, NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com, 312-446-4939 https://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | http://on.fb.me/Xck0Nf | @NoGoldenDawnChi | #antifa19jan #Greece January 19, 2012 Greetings from Chicago, comrades. We write as workers, immigrants, artists and activists from a host of backgrounds with one message… Read More ›
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports PAKISTAN Name | Age | Gender Noor Aziz | 8 | male Abdul Wasit | 17 | male Noor Syed | 8 | male Wajid Noor | 9 | male Syed Wali Shah |… Read More ›
Homeless Man Choked to Death by Store Manager for Stealing Toothpaste
CVS – the once thought of drug and convenience store will now be known as the store that defends its manager’s rights to kill shoplifters…even those that are caught taking a single tube of toothpaste. Death for toothpaste. Would anyone ever exchange… Read More ›
The Right-to-Exploit
by ROBERT HANHAM Right-to-Work Laws as Weapons of Class War No sooner had Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ (RTW) law passed, than supporters were out in force crowing about their success and the prospect of other states falling victim. Non-RTW states Alaska, Illinois,… Read More ›
France begins Mali intervention against rebel forces
France has begun an operation to push back rebel forces in Mali. A state of emergency has been declared throughout the country. “French forces brought their support this afternoon to Malian army units to fight against terrorist elements,” French President Francois… Read More ›
Gitmo-go-round: No solution in sight on 11th Guantanamo anniversary
January 11 marks the 11th anniversary since the first inmates were airlifted into the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. With an almost blanket ban on transferring prisoners out of Camp Delta in operation, it is unlikely to be the… Read More ›
Prince Harry ‘kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk’, says Mujahideen leader
by ELLEN BRANAGH Prince Harry “kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk”, while foreign forces in Afghanistan have failed, a controversial Mujahideen leader in the country has declared. In an outspoken interview, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder and… Read More ›
Amnesty International’s latest arms trade campaign is colonialism with a kindly face
If you needed any further proof that Amnesty International is to the 21st century what rum-swigging bearers of the White Man’s Burden were to the 19th, look no further than its current campaign for a global arms trade treaty. Amnesty is… Read More ›
Matt Taibbi: Libor scandal biggest ‘Wall Street-related story of this year’
By Samantha Kimmey On the Current TV show Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said that the underreported Libor scandal was the “the biggest story, Wall Street-related story, of this year.” “There’s been a whole spate of market… Read More ›
U.S. Complicity in Israel’s Deadly Actions in Gaza
by Josh Ruebner On November 18, an Israeli air force pilot flying a U.S.-made F-16 fighter jet fired a missile at the four-story home of the al-Dalu family in Gaza City, killing ten members of the family and two from the al-Muzannar… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 