News and Analysis from the United States
What is “Cultural Marxism?” Anyone who has spent considerable time participating in political discussions is bound to run across the term “Cultural Marxism” at one time or another. It is a term typically used by the most extreme elements on… Read More ›
Gadhafi loyalists showing resilience in Tripoli Forces loyal to fugitive Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi struck back Monday against the rebel fighters who had swept euphorically into the capital the previous night, forcing them to retreat from several strategic locations and… Read More ›
The GOP’s anti-tax attitude and budget cuts mean some states are closing schools on Fridays, leaving parents, workers and students in the lurch. I doubt there’s any student in the world who would object to having Fridays off. But when… Read More ›
Muammar Gaddafi is still at large as loyalist forces staged a defiant and bloody last stand in the Libyan capital against advancing rebels. In a morale boosting development for the regime, the embattled dictator’s son Saif al-Islam also appeared in… Read More ›
Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumors of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it transpired that most of these shots were fired by victorious Gaddafi loyalists. On Saturday evening,… Read More ›
Mitt Romney is looking to quadruple the size of his $12 million California home, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The GOP presidential candidate has filed an application with the San Diego government to bulldoze the 3,009-square-foot beachfront house in La… Read More ›
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 ›
By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA LONDON — Two former News International executives publicly contradicted James Murdoch’s testimony to a parliamentary committee, saying Thursday that they told him of evidence in 2008 that suggested that phone hacking at one… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Tens of thousands of striking workers from Verizon Communications will lose their medical benefits if they’re still picketing at the end of the month, the telephone service provider said Wednesday. “I can confirm that the 45,000… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
“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 ›
Sister Halimah Allah writes from Los Angeles on July 18: “As I watch another Black man – shot down in the street like a mad dog by occupation forces paid for by our tax dollars and 456 years of dehumanization… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 