“It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country, whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country.” — Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, Taliban… Read More ›
Economic Exploitation
Augusto Pinochet & the Realities of the Free Market in Chile
An unsigned article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on February 28, 2010, entitled “A Tale of Two Quakes,” which sought to compare the devastating earthquakes that struck the countries of Chile and Haiti that year. Indeed, the Chilean earthquake… Read More ›
Libya overshadowed by “Kosovo model”
BEIJING, May 23 (Xinhua) — The latest moves by Western allies against Libya have shown marked similarities to “strategies” they adopted in Kosovo in the 1990s. Catherine Ashton, EU’s foreign policy chief, opened the bloc’s office on Sunday in Benghazi,the… Read More ›
Queen Arrives in Ireland, Protesters Clash with Police
Queen Elizabeth II has begun her tour of Ireland. Many bourgeois press sources have been lavish in their praises of this trip, lauding the Queen’s visit to Ireland as a “step forward” in relations between the two countries. However, in… Read More ›
Poverty & Violent Crime
Poverty is the main cause of most violent crime in the United States today. Some cite violence in media as creating a mentality of willingness to harm others that would not otherwise exist; others see it as a problem of… Read More ›
America’s Plantation Prisons
by Maya Schenwar On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They… Read More ›
Libya: Popular Uprising, Civilian War or Military Attack?
Interview: Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon After Tunisia and Egypt, has the Arab revolution reached Libya ? What is happening at the moment in Libya is different. In Tunisia and Egypt, the lack of freedom was flagrant. However, it was… Read More ›
Libya and the World of Oil
By Noam Chomsky Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor came to an end. The chief prosecutor, U.S. law professor David Crane, informed The… Read More ›
Murderer of the Miners: Don Blankenship & Massey Energy
There are those who think of the trade union struggle as the workers’ fight for better wages and benefits, but there are times when this struggle is a matter of life and death. The mining industry is a perfect example… Read More ›
Operation Odyssey Dawn: Libya to get the “Kosovo Treatment”
Another “Humanitarian Bombing” – First Yugoslavia, Now Libya President Barack Obama has now made the exact same speech Bill Clinton made on network news back in 1999 – promising “no ground forces” in the next American-led war of aggression. U.N…. Read More ›
Update on Tunisia
TUNIS // For years, Hamma Hammami’s chief concern was staying out of a Tunisian jail. Today, it is fielding non-stop phone calls from local and international media. “The fact that we spoke against Ben Ali gives us credibility,” said Mr… Read More ›
Imperialism: A Beginner’s Guide
In waging its resistance to capitalist exploitation abroad, the worker’s movement has heavily involved itself in anti-imperialism in its actions and stances. In resisting this force, it is essential for us to have a coherent and consistent understanding of imperialism…. Read More ›
The Scott Walker Phone Call & the Attack on Unions in Wisconsin
Most of reporter Ian Murphy’s prank call to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was fairly innocuous. Governor Walker, who thought he was talking to billionaire Tea Party backer David Koch, laid out some of his strategies for luring the 14 missing… Read More ›
Wisconsin Governor Threatens to call in National Guard against State Workers
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker made the dramatic announcement on the morning of 11 February that he is prepared to call in the Wisconsin National Guard to respond if there is any unrest among state employees. In the wake of his… Read More ›
Obama to Propose Slashing Home Heating Aid for Poor
President Obama’s 2012 budget, set to be released on Monday, will propose cutting $2.5 billion from a $5 billion program that provides home heating aid for the poor, according to the National Journal. A perennial budget target, the Low-Income Home… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 