By Travis Waldron When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard… Read More ›
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Against the illusions of “movement building” for the party of insurrection
We are all familiar with the organizer who organizer who organizes for the sake of organizing, with the politics which prioritizes tactical success in immediate daily work, while paying sterile lip service to an ultimate goal which is hardly taken… Read More ›
Google Is Now Offering Loans to Small Businesses; Yup. They Want to Be A Bank Too
Google is going to take over the world. They are now offering loans up to $10k to businesses that want to invest in their Adwords program; they’re going to launch in the UK first and then branch out in a… Read More ›
Billionaire CEO threatens to fire employees if Obama is re-elected
By Eric W. Dolan David Siegel, the founder and CEO of Westgate Resorts, on Monday sent a letter to his 7000 employees warning that the company would be downsized if President Barack Obama was elected to a second term. Siegal,… Read More ›
Morsi says IMF loan compatible with Islamic banking
AFP – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sought to reassure conservatives at home that a request for a loan of nearly $5 billion (3.8 billion euros) in aid from the IMF would be compatible with Islamic banking principles. Egypt in August… Read More ›
‘Send this to Assad’: New shock video shows rebels mocking Gaddafi body
A shocking video showing deposed Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi shortly after his death has appeared on YouTube. A Syrian activist tweeted the video, recommending that embattled President Assad watch it. The new video shows the bloodstained shirtless body of the… Read More ›
Walmart Strike Memo Reveals Confidential Management Plans
Walmart launched a large-scale response this week to a series of unprecedented labor strikes, according to a confidential document obtained by The Huffington Post. The seven-page internal memo, issued Oct. 8, is intended for salaried employees only, and contains instructions… Read More ›
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects
New study links increase with military action by Western forces It played unwilling host to one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war. Fallujah’s homes and businesses were left shattered; hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed. Its residents changed… Read More ›
Republican extremists, in their own words
Extremism is no vice among Arkansas Republicans. And, no, I’m not talking about neo-Confederate Republican Rep. Loy Mauch, who once tried to have Abraham Lincoln’s bust removed from the Hot Springs Convention Center. There’s also Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro,… Read More ›
Ron Paul One Of The Most Corrupt Members Of Congress, Report Finds
Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul has been named one of the most corrupt members of Congress in a new report from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The report says Paul “double-billed” his travel expenses a… Read More ›
America’s deadly double tap drone attacks are ‘killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan’
Study found war against violent Islamists has become increasingly deadly Researchers blame common tactic now being used – the ‘double-tap’ strike Drone strikes condemned for their ineffectiveness in targeting militants Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes… Read More ›
Watch: Cops Harass, Grope, and Threaten Teenager “For Being a F*cking Mutt”
What “Stop-and-Frisk” is really like. The NYPD conducts more than 1,800 stop-and-frisks each day. The program has come under widespread condemnation by critics who say that it unfairly targets men of color. Now there’s proof. Here’s more from Ross Tuttle… Read More ›
Study: 41% Of Americans Have Been Arrested By The Time They’re 23
“Those are alarmingly high numbers. There are social, economic, educational and family risks associated with arrests. And we all have to be worried about that.” ~Dr. Eugene Beresin, a child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical… Read More ›
GOP candidate is in favor of the death penalty for kids, cites biblical passages
Arkansas GOP candidate for state representative Charlie Fuqua published a book where he called for the death penalty to be imposed upon children for religious purposes. The book titled, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution” has multiple disturbing passages where… Read More ›
Agent Orange on Okinawa: The Smoking Gun
Since 1945, the small Japanese island of Okinawa has been unwilling host to a massive U.S. military presence and a storehouse for a witches’ brew of dangerous munitions and chemicals, including nerve gas, mustard gas, and nuclear missiles. However, there is one… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 