Conflicting Stories Abound as War Reaches the Capital by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2011 A flurry of reports from myriad sources are detailing what is a growing amount of fighting in and around the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, as… Read More ›
International
Translations, Party Statements, and News from Around the World.
‘Funny’ Anti-Gaddafi Cartoons Reveal Rebel Racism, Anti-Semitism
Gaddafi’s eastern Libyan opponents have been flaunting their prejudice in full view of the world’s media with little to no response. In late February, back at the outset of the eastern Libyan rebellion against the rule of Muammar al-Gaddafi, I… Read More ›
Bachmann says Americans worried about “rise of the Soviet Union”
By Corbett B. Daly Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann said Thursday there is a growing fear among Americans about an “unstoppable decline” of the United States and a “rise of the Soviet Union.” The Minnesota lawmaker told conservative radio host… Read More ›
Honduras resistance launches political party as repression continues
By Felipe Stuart Cournoyer and John Riddell. A National Assembly of the Resistance, uniting more than 1,500 delegates from across Honduras, voted June 26 to launch a new political party, the Frente Amplio de Resistencia Popular (Broad Front of Popular… Read More ›
Facing the bombs of America and NATO in the Libya Jamahiriya
by Randy Short The public and the people of the world need to know that the corporate media is fabricating a massif of lies concerning the on-the-ground facts of the illegal war against the people of Libya by American and… Read More ›
U.S. Media Imagine Nonexistent Mass Rape in Libya, But are Blind to Mass Murder of Black Africans
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford U.S. media show no remorse for falsely reporting that Libyan soldiers were using rape as a weapon of war, although Amnesty International has “not found any evidence or a single victim of… Read More ›
Pacifism: How to Do The Enemy’s Job For Them
“As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that… Read More ›
Hiroshima Day 2003: Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War
by Michel Chossudovsky At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout over… Read More ›
Israel Protests: 270,000 Demonstrate Against Rising Cost Of Living
JERUSALEM — At least a quarter of a million Israelis, fed up with the mounting cost of living, poured into the streets of the country’s major cities Saturday night to demand that their leaders address their plight – and proving… Read More ›
Review of “Germany & the Secret Genocide”
It is often said that history is written by the victor. When it comes to the recollections of the past championed within bourgeois society, objective historical realities are obscured (if not omitted or re-written) when the facts and lessons to… Read More ›
A People’s History of the Egyptian Revolution
By Rami El-Amine and Mostafa Henaway No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive… Read More ›
Germany Joins NATO in Libya
Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position. After just over 100 days of… Read More ›
Videos: US and NATO-supported Libyan “Rebels” Lynch Black Libyans
The US Corporate Media, and the US government, continue to methodically hide, from the public, the fact that the Libyan rebels they are supporting have been, and continue to, rape, mutilate and brutally murder Black Africans within Libya. The rebels… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 