Click here to download a pdf of this letter. January 3, 2012 To: All Longshore, Clerk, and Walking Boss/Foreman Locals Brothers and Sisters: We are currently engaged in a labor dispute with one of our employers, EGT, in the Pacific… Read More ›
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N.C. sterilization panel: Victims deserve $50K
RALEIGH, N.C. – People sterilized against their will under a discredited North Carolina state program should each be paid $50,000, a task force voted Tuesday, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of a once-common public… Read More ›
Pope: Gay marriage a threat to humanity’s future
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY | Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:25pm EST (Reuters) – Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined “the future of humanity itself.” The pope made… Read More ›
Retrospect – Obama’s Africa Speech: Lies, Hypocrisy, and a Prescription for Continued African Dependence
Q. Is Obama better than Bush? A. It depends how you like your imperialism – with a white face or a black one. By Stephen Gowans US president Barack Obama’s speech at Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 was equal… Read More ›
The Massacre Everyone Ignored: Up to 70 Striking Oil Workers Killed in Kazakhstan by US-Supported Dictator
By Mark Ames With violence and government crackdowns making headlines from so many familiar parts of the world, there’s hardly been a peep in the media about the biggest and ugliest massacre of all: Last Friday in Kazakhstan, riot police… Read More ›
Bagram “worse than Guantanamo,” says rights attorney
Some surprisingly good CBS reporting on Bagram Airbase as the new legal black hole, secret prison of the Obama administration: Begram: the Other Guantanamo There are now 3,000 detainees in Bagram, up from 1,700 since June (!) and five times… Read More ›
Cultural Genocide in Lake County, CA
“There was no civilization before private property” by WILL PARRISH As you read these words, one of the Northern California East Bay Area’s wealthiest men is getting away with an act of cultural genocide. Construction crews employed by wireless technology… Read More ›
Paul pressed to explain AIDS claims
By JOSH BOAK Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took heat on “Fox News Sunday” for claims made in his 1987 book “Freedom Under Siege” that AIDS patients victimize society and the sexually harassed share in some of the blame for… Read More ›
Sexual Violence in America
by DAVID ROSEN Shame of the Nation Many sex-related stories captured popular attention in 2011. Most upsetting, many of the incidents involved sexual violence. Taken together, they indicate something bigger, deeper, taking place in America, a social crisis. It’s as… Read More ›
Two Abortion Providers Charged with Murder in MD.
(AP) WASHINGTON — Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death… Read More ›
Half of America in Poverty?
The Facts Say It’s True by PAUL BUCHHEIT Recent reports suggest that almost 50% of Americans are in poverty or at a “low income” level. The claim is based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that includes… Read More ›
Embellishing the Iraq War
Moral Victory, and Selective Body Counts by RAMZY BAROUD Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the only victims. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have also… Read More ›
The real ‘invented’ people
Newt Gingrich’s controversial statement begs the question: Who invented a nationality? The Palestinians or the Israelis? It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel’s legitimacy as a state would buy into former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s argument that Palestine… Read More ›
Michael Parenti: Must We Adore Vaclav Havel?
No figure among the capitalist restorationists in the East has won more adulation from U.S. officials, media pundits, and academics than Vaclav Havel, a playwright who became the first president of post-Communist Czechoslovakia and later president of the Czech Republic…. Read More ›
Michael Parenti: Occupy America
Beginning with Occupy Wall Street in September 2011, a protest movement spread across the United States to 70 major cities and hundreds of other communities. Similar actions emerged in scores of other nations. For the first two weeks, the corporate-owned… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 