Basic Facts Reds is a 1981 film about the life of American journalist-turned-revolutionary John Reed (Warren Beatty). It functions at once as a political and romantic biography of Reed as well as a historical account of the October Revolution in… Read More ›
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
Last Tuesday, 15 June 2010, President Obama addressed the nation, his first address to the American People from the Oval Office. It was a rousing speech, I will give the President that. That having been said, the President did not… Read More ›
What Are Conspiracy Theories? Whether you use the internet frequently, attend protests or activist group meetings, or you are just the social type who strikes up conversations with people while waiting in a long line, chances are you’ve met them…. Read More ›
Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is a popular book from the Austrian School of economics. It is the scripture of classical liberalism and the right, much more so than Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. The thesis of… Read More ›
Low Union Representation Trade unions have long been one of the only ways that workers have of advocating for themselves within the confines of capitalist production. Yet, in recent years, the number of those workers who are represented in unions… Read More ›
How We Perceive Work & Why In the United States, work is seen through a contradictory lens. It is both the bane of a person’s existence and that which defines them. It is also vital to the American economy that… Read More ›
Legalize Industrial Hemp for American Jobs and Prosperity America is confronted today with a plethora of problems, many of which can be solved by ending a sixty-year-old policy rooted in racism and corporate greed. We are speaking, of course, of… Read More ›
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia declared this April as Virginia’s “Confederate History Month.” Virginia is not the first state to practice this. The states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia all commemorate the Confederate States of America. The… Read More ›
Part V of VI: Castro, Che & Cuba The “Cult of Che” & the Execution of Rojas One of the last parts of Beck’s documentary contains a truly disturbing element far above the mere falsification of history we have… Read More ›
“Out of Iraq, Into Darfur”: Humanitarian or Warmongering? The ongoing campaign for intervention in Sudan has resulted in the reduction of a complex political problem to a morality tale populated by villains and victims. Newspaper and television reports are a… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
The Red Phoenix 