The Nationalist’s Dilemma The nationalist has always found himself in a difficult quandary. Virtually all nationalist mythology tells of some better time in the nation’s history. It speaks of a time when people were patriotic, respectful of their elders and fellow… Read More ›
“Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.” – Augusto Pinochet “Not a leaf moves in this country if I’m not moving it.” – Pinochet, October 1981 Remember September 11th, 1973 During the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence… Read More ›
When one removes the rose-colored glasses of American consumerist ideology, that anti-culture which assures us that happiness is only “one purchase away,” the world we see is one plagued by stratification. We live in a world of billionaires and starving… Read More ›
Adam Jones’ book Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity is an incredibly revealing anthology containing accounts of atrocities carried out by Western imperial capitalism and those who serve its interests abroad. Articles describing the little-known and little-understood… Read More ›
The New Red Scare Lately, one cannot help but notice that despite the “end of history” and the total discrediting, debunking, destruction, looting, pillaging and castration of Marxism, anti-communist propaganda is actually on the rise both in the United States… Read More ›
The Soviet Red Army Won World War II When people say the Greatest Generation, they usually refer to the parents of the baby-boomers who fought in Europe during World War II. What we rarely hear is the story of their… Read More ›
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 ›
Personal Reflection: “The Reds” as the Good Guys I was about ten years old when my mother took the family to see Enemy at the Gates (2001). For one, this was the first time in my life that I was… 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 ›
The disunity characteristic of feudal society disappears in the course of capitalist development and a single national market is formed as a result of which nationalities turn into nations. “Nations,” wrote Lenin, “are an inevitable product, an inevitable form, in… 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 ›
Obama Meets Theocratic Ex-Dictator On the 18th of February President Obama met with the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, at the White House. The tradition of meetings between U.S. presidents and the Dalai Lama goes back to George H.W. Bush…. Read More ›
Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: “Most know that the horrors of the… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
The Red Phoenix 