Imperialism
Israel-Iran shadow war
* In the past two years, four Iranian scientists have been mysteriously assassinated * The only one to survive so far is Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani, now the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, who jumped away from his car seconds before… Read More ›
Longest Palestinian hunger strike ends in deal
(Reuters) – A Palestinian held without trial ended a 66-day hunger strike Tuesday after Israeli authorities promised to release him in April in a deal that avoided judicial review of its detention policy. Khader Adnan, a 33-year-old member of the… Read More ›
Assassinating Iranian Scientists
The Original Sin: Assassinating Iranian Scientists by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH To avoid restating the obvious, or repeating what others have already established, I take these facts as givens: that the main perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientists has been the… Read More ›
Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase
The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week…. Read More ›
Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests
(Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the… Read More ›
Video Exposes Chevron’s Decimation of Indigenous Groups In Ecuador’s Amazon
NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 — A Sordid Tale of Crime and Cover-up By Major U.S. Oil Company NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the Ecuadorian rainforest, far from the eyes of the U.S. news media, sits one… Read More ›
Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike poses challenge for Israel
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian prisoner who has refused food for two months to protest his detention without trial is in “immediate danger of death,” according to his attorneys and a doctor from an Israeli medical rights group who examined him… Read More ›
Four wounded in Israeli air strikes on Gaza
GAZA CITY: Three people were wounded early Sunday morning in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man. According to the sources, the latest air strike, which targeted a home in the… Read More ›
U.S. carrier crosses Hormuz amid rising Gulf tensions
(Reuters) – A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday more than a month after Iran warned a different carrier — USS John C. Stennis — not to return to the Gulf as Iranian navy… Read More ›
Taliban Warns US to Learn From Soviet Defeat
It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of the country with their own economy in tatters, and the Soviet-backed Afghan government on the… Read More ›
Myths About Socialism: Is It Really Just a Matter of Corporate Greed?
Unlike other political philosophers, Karl Marx did not simply dream up an ideal society or concoct ad hoc solutions to the social problems he saw in his time. Marx was an observer who devoted far more of his time and energy… Read More ›
Chemical Weapons and Iranian Invasions: Syria Hysteria Turns to Wild Rumors
State Dept Claims Assad Allies Planning ‘Exit Strategy’ by Jason Ditz, February 10, 2012 In past examples (notably Iraq) the clearest indication of a forthcoming war have been when the reports on the ground turned from exaggerations to hysteria to… Read More ›
Niger won’t extradite Saadi Gadhafi
NIAMEY, Libya, Feb. 11 (UPI) — Officials in Niger said Saturday they will not return Saadi Gadhafi, son of deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, to Libya because he might be killed there. Marou Amadou, a government spokesman, said Niger would… Read More ›
From Pelican Bay: CDCR to offset prison population cut by putting more men in solitary
Three letters from core hunger strike organizers: Todd Ashker, Mutope Duguma (James Crawford), Arturo Castellanos by Todd Ashker Written Jan. 22, postmarked Jan. 27, 2012 – As soon as I first heard during our face to face meeting with former… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 