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• Embellishing the Iraq War

  By The Red Phoenix on December 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• IDF chief: Gaza war against Hamas was an ‘excellent’ operation

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Second round of fighting in Gaza is not a matter of choice for Israel; it must be initiated by Israel and must be ‘swift and painful,’ Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz says. By Amos Harel Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff… Read More ›

• The real ‘invented’ people

  By The Red Phoenix on December 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Is Haiti’s church hierarchy failing in its mission? Bishop Louis Kébreau’s immoral advice to Martelly

  By The Red Phoenix on December 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  August 18, 2011 by Wadner Pierre Did Bishop Louis Kébreau, president of the Haitian Episcopal Conference, call on Haitian President Martelly to be ruthless and dictatorial? In an article published on Aug. 11 by the Haitian daily newspaper, Le Nouvelliste,… Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: Must We Adore Vaclav Havel?

  By The Red Phoenix on December 27, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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

  By The Red Phoenix on December 26, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• On Communist Morality

  By The Red Phoenix on December 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In their ideological battle against the revolutionary working class, the bourgeoisie has advanced a great many myths and purposefully false perceptions and accusations of revolutionary activists. It was a common line in Cold War propaganda that communists are “amoral.” The… Read More ›

• How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored. Ed Vulliamy The… Read More ›

• Sanctioning Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on December 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Who is the Real Loser? by ELIAS AKLEH Economic sanctions are arrogant open acts of war against other nations. Their goal is to devastate the lower and middle classes and to weaken the country. The regime of the imposing country… Read More ›

• The National Defense Authorization Act Explained

  By The Red Phoenix on December 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Indefinite Detention of American Citizens by JOANNE MARINER Passed by the House and Senate last week, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now awaits the president’s signature. Because of its controversial provisions on indefinite detention, President Obama had threatened… Read More ›

• An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Egyptian General Abdel Moneim Kato says protestors should be burned in “Hitler’s ovens”

  By The Red Phoenix on December 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• To Cut Deficit, Obama Takes A Scalpel To Health Programs

  By The Red Phoenix on December 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  President Obama’s plan to cut the deficit doesn’t exactly spare Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs. But he also doesn’t propose the sweeping sorts of changes envisioned by House Republicans earlier this year. The proposal to reduce the deficit… Read More ›

• Rick Perry and race: Haley Barbour’s example

  By The Red Phoenix on December 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jonathan Capehart Gov. Rick Perry (R-Tex.) has a Barbour problem. As with Perry, there was a time when folks were clamoring for Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) to get into the race for the GOP presidential nomination. He’s a powerhouse… Read More ›

• Execution by secret WH committee

  By The Red Phoenix on December 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Glenn Greenwald Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there’s a Democrat in the White House) — from Reuters: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a… Read More ›

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