Happy Genocidal Maniac Day! Five hundred and eighteen years ago, today 12 October, a momentous event happened. The supposed “discovery” by one Cristóbal Colón—also known as Christopher Columbus, landed on the Bahamian island of San Salvador and subsequently was labeled… Read More ›
International
Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
Political Cartoon: On Steve Jobs
Quick Response code in this cartoon links to this story: Workers Sickened at Apple Supplier in China
Afghans protest in run-up to war anniversary
Ten years after invasion that ended Taliban rule, hundreds in Kabul say country will be safer when US forces leave. Hundreds of Afghans have marched through the capital, Kabul, on the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of… Read More ›
It’s not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial
Imagine a prominent figure was charged, not with raping a hotel maid, but with starving her, and her family, to death Sometimes, the most revealing aspect of the shrieking babble of the 24/7 news agenda is the silence. Often the… Read More ›
CIA Drone Kills Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, Secret US Memo Authorized Assassination
The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials. The document was produced following a review of the… Read More ›
Young American Jews Speak Out Against Zionism
“I’m trembling,” my mother says when I tell her I’m working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the Palestinians’ bid for statehood at the United Nations. I understand the frustrations of the… Read More ›
Anti-Black Racism Among Libyan Rebels
“the brigade for purging slaves, black skin” – slogan seen painted in rebel country Michael McGehee wrote in Victims of a Civil War, Z Magazine, April 5: Libya, located in northern Africa, has a majority Arab population. It also has… Read More ›
Remembering Chile’s 9/11
By Paul Street “Close to Perfect:” A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes flew low over an American nation’s leading city. Buildings erupted in flames. There was an… Read More ›
Operation Torture
Ten Years On by VIJAY PRASHAD “No state shall expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” United Nations Convention… Read More ›
Chemical Warfare At Its Worst
The Harrowing Legacy of Agent Orange by N.D. JAYAPRAKASH The shocking images of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York is well-etched in the minds of almost everyone who had access to a TV set. Similarly,… Read More ›
Libyan rebels round up black Africans, place them in detention camps
By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift… Read More ›
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, air strike called in to cover up evidence
By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike… Read More ›
How US firms profited from torture flights
Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies The scale of the CIA’s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 