My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy… Read More ›
United States History
FBI adds 65-year-old Black Panther to Most Wanted Terrorists list
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that Joanne Chesimard has been added to its Most Wanted Terrorists list. Thursday’s bulletin gave Chesimard, a black nationalist, the dubious distinction of being the first woman to be placed on the list…. Read More ›
Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study
By Caroline Fairchild President Obama’s call to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour was one of the more significant proposals he laid out in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But $9 an hour is still a far cry from… Read More ›
Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2013!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
Editorial: Why North Korea Needs Nuclear Weapons
By Stephen Gowans Is North Korea’s recent nuclear test, its third, to be welcomed, lamented or condemned? It depends on your perspective. If you believe that a people should be able to organize their affairs free from foreign domination and… Read More ›
Of Flags & Butter: An Analysis of American White Supremacy Through Symbols
American racism and white supremacy is not limited to the physical realm, but is also a mental phenomenon – it is possible for the mind to be colonized by racist and white supremacist ideology, just as it is possible for… Read More ›
Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness
by Tim Wise As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing in Boston yesterday, one searches for lessons amid the carnage, and finds few. That violence is unacceptable stands out as one, sure. That hatred — for… Read More ›
An Interview with North Koreans
by Stansfield Smith I recently returned from a late March trip to North Korea [Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)], along with 45 others, through Koryo Tours. On that tour I had the opportunity to discuss with the Korean tour guides… Read More ›
Death of a Ruling Class Warrior: Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
By Tom Mills Thatcher is dead. But for years she was a shadow of her former self. After her fall from power in 1990 she slowly faded away from public life and when she did wander back onto the public stage… Read More ›
Fidel Castro: The Duty to Avoid War in Korea
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of… Read More ›
Washington’s “Playbook” for provoking North Korea
By Stephen Gowans In an April 3 Wall Street Journal article, “U.S. dials back on Korean show of force,” reporters Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes revealed that the White House approved a detailed plan, called ‘the playbook,’ to ratchet… Read More ›
40% of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage
You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains. This means the gains went…somewhere else. See if you can guess who got… Read More ›
The Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 an Hour if it Rose with Productivity Since 1968
Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The… Read More ›
JFK secretly freed rapists, drug dealers and Mafia hitmen to kill Castro and curb threat of Communism, claims explosive new book
Revelations made by journalist Bill Deane in new book ‘Smooth Criminal’ It tells story of alleged CIA spy and ‘one-man crime wave’ Dave Riley Claims criminals allowed on ‘crime sprees’ in US when not working for CIA Deane: ‘Riley was typical recruit:… Read More ›
France in Mali: The longue durée of imperial blowback
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 ›
The Red Phoenix 