The siege of Bani Walid, Libya’s ongoing political instability, and the alleged torture of Gaddafi loyalists has left the country a far cry from the vision that western powers had when they supported last year’s NATO bombing. Geopolitical analyst Patrick… Read More ›
Media & Culture
Working Class perspective on books, movies, video games and other art.
Court ruling: Anti-Jihad posters to come to Washington
Washington will become the next American city to display a notorious anti-Jihad public advert, after a district judge declined a local Metro injunction asking for it to be delayed. Washington Metro argued that the posters, which were scheduled to be… Read More ›
Here to stay: Chavez wins Venezuelan presidency (PHOTOS)
Incumbent President, Hugo Chavez, has won Venezuela’s tightly-contested presidential elections, clinching a fourth term with over 54 per cent of the vote, according to the National Electoral Council. With more than 90 per cent of the ballot counted, election officials… Read More ›
The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”
Most of us are familiar with this picture. Captured in Times Square on V-J Day, 1945, it has become one of the most iconic photographs of American history, symbolizing the jubilation and exuberance felt throughout the country at the end… Read More ›
14 Years Ago Today
by Jamie McGonnigal On October 7, 1998, Aaron Kreifels was riding his bike through a field in Wyoming. He wasn’t expecting that day to be different from any other beautiful sunny afternoon in the vast plains surrounding Laramie, but that… Read More ›
Thousands protest in Turkey over Syria mandate
Protesters take to the streets in Ankara and Istanbul after Turkey’s parliament approved military operations against targets in Syria following the deaths of five Turkish citizens from Syrian shelling. Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Istanbul on Thursday… Read More ›
The war between the civilized man and the savage
A provocative ad which debuted last month in San Francisco is making its way to New York subways today. Starting from Monday, September 24, 2012, as the UN General Assembly picks up momentum in New York and heads of states… Read More ›
California Is First State to Ban Gay ‘Cure’ for Minors
By ERIK ECKHOLM California has become the first state to ban the use for minors of disputed therapies to “overcome” homosexuality, a step hailed by gay rights groups across the country that say the therapies have caused dangerous emotional harm… Read More ›
Political Cartoon: Free Bradley Manning, Nobel nominee, WikiLeaks whistleblower
“Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of releasing the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He… Read More ›
Video: Exposed – ‘Auschwitz-like’ US death camp hospital in Kabul
Senior US military officers blew the whistle on horrific conditions at the National Military Hospital in Kabul. They revealed some graphic images, showing severely neglected, starving patients at the hospital, which the US military sponsors and helps oversee. Witnesses describe… Read More ›
‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker was a federal informant
Much remains unanswered about the US-made film that sparked riots across the Arab World, but more is unraveling by the day regarding the movie’s producer. Now it’s reported that the man behind ‘Innocence of Muslims’ was once a federal informant…. Read More ›
Journalist arrested for defacing anti-Muslim ad in NYC subway
An Egyptian-American activist was arrested by the NYPD on Tuesday and charged with criminal mischief and graffiti for spray-painting an advertisement in a New York subway station that had been viewed as hateful to Muslims. Mona Eltahawy, 45, was detained… Read More ›
Marines face court-martial for urinating on dead Afghans
Two of the Marines alleged to have urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters are now facing criminal charges and will be forced to face a court-martial over the incident. Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Chamblin and Staff Sgt. Edward… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 