Conspiracy Theories One of the certainties encountered by any person involved in the realm of political participation for any amount of time is that they will inevitably hear at least a few conspiracy theories. As a phenomenon, conspiracy politics have… Read More ›
History
Imperialists Seek War with Iran
Years of Warmongering In recent weeks, the United States has undertaken a series of measures to once again reaffirm its hostile and antagonistic policies towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. Earlier in January, the US Senate approved further sanctions against… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part III of VI: How Beck Turned Marx Into A Common Racist Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg cite examples of Marx’s supposed “anti-Semitism” in connection with Hitler. What Goldberg is referring to are Marx’s words on the economic status of… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part II of VI: Whitewashing Genocide: How “Leftist” Nazi Germany Gets a Pass Glenn Beck, continuing the introduction to his program, claims that “progressives” are seeking to distort the history of Stalin, Mao, Che, etc. in their efforts to incite… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part I of VI: Beck’s Countless Lies about America & the Founding Fathers On January 22nd 2010, another hardened reactionary tried to attack the history of leftism and Marxism and (surprise) managed to bring nothing new to the table at… Read More ›
American Party of Labor Condemns US Occupation of the Republic of Haiti
The American Party of Labor on Thursday condemned the recent deployment of more than 10,000 US soldiers and military personnel to the Republic of Haiti following last week’s devastating earthquake. The American Party of Labor considers the deployment of over… Read More ›
MLK Day: A Dream Lost
Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›
The Earthquake Disaster & Imperialism in Haiti
A History of Colonialism On Tuesday, the 12th of January 2010, the Republic of Haiti was struck by a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake, which hit its capital city directly. The death toll may exceed 100,000 in one of the most… Read More ›
Who Will Lead the Transition to Socialism?
Who Are the Actors in the Transition to Socialism? Essential to the realization of socialism is a vision of the class and social forces that have to be assembled to win political power. At the center of this assemblage is… Read More ›
Review of “Avatar”
(Warning: Minor Spoilers) Avatar, the latest film by James Cameron, lives up to the hype. Throughout James Cameron’s career he has created blockbuster after blockbuster, from Aliens in 1986 to the famous Titanic in 1997. Cameron’s movies usually are long,… Read More ›
Obama’s War Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke. Alfred Nobel was a 19th century military-industrialist who invented dynamite as a weapon. He was called the “Merchant of Death” throughout his career. The fact that he used his fortune to… Read More ›
Killing Two Capitalist Myths
There is a widespread popular myth that the capitalists are entitled to their compensation, as well as the value of other peoples’ labor, simply because they take “risks” or because they come up with original ideas for production of goods…. Read More ›
Fanning the Flames of War In Afghanistan
War President Obama: 30,000 More Troops to Afghanistan Obama: “We Did Not Ask for This Fight” Bush: “We Did Not Seek This Conflict” Obama: “New Attacks are Being Plotted as I Speak” Bush: “At This Moment … Terrorists are Planning… Read More ›
Book Review of “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”
Today is Thanksgiving, and nothing would mark the occasion better than to check out 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, a 2005 book by Charles C. Mann. The work serves as a challenge to the arguments presented to… Read More ›
On Torture
Who Are the Real War Criminals? On the surface, the promise to close Guantanamo—delayed as the closing is, of course—seems like the ending to a fairy tale story straight out of daytime drama. At last righteousness has triumphed over evil,… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 