News and Analysis from the United States
by DAVID MACARAY Whenever Labor Day rolls around I get filled with subversive thoughts about the unfairness of it all. While it’s the workers who keep the operation going, it’s management who gets the credit. It’s management who gets the… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Glen Ford “The world’s most imperial-dependent, ill-disciplined and whining ‘liberation movement’ is still blaming black ‘mercenaries’ and soldiers from Chad for its failures in the field.” Chad, meanwhile, has officially asked the “international coalition” to protect its civilians from the… Read More ›
In capitalism’s mythology, society functions according to merit. Wealth and decadence are the tell-tale signs of hard work and brilliance paying off, while poverty is a sign of laziness, irresponsibility and a disposition or work-ethic undeserving of the products of… Read More ›
by DAILY MAIL REPORTER Two bakery workers died in agony after bosses sent them into a giant oven to carry out repairs on the cheap, a court heard yesterday. The machine should have been allowed to cool for 12 hours,… Read More ›
Among the foreigners desperate to flee the troubles in Libya are thousands of African migrants from all over the continent. They say they’ve become targets for Libyans who are enraged that African mercenaries are fighting on behalf of the regime…. Read More ›
The terrified man is hung upside down as a mob chant abuse at him, many filming his torture on mobile phone cameras. After some time, a man steps forward and begins to hack off the prisoner’s head, the mob cheering… Read More ›
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 ›
The Red Phoenix 