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• Review of “Fast Food Nation”

  By The Red Phoenix on December 10, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  What Is the Error of this Book? This book will doubtlessly go down in history as the favorite palm book of the elitist, petty-bourgeois American social democrats and liberals. If you are looking for a manual on how to look… Read More ›

• Killing Two Capitalist Myths

  By The Red Phoenix on December 8, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  There is a widespread popular myth that the capitalists are entitled to their compensation, as well as the value of other peoples’ labor, simply because they take “risks” or because they come up with original ideas for production of goods…. Read More ›

• Fanning the Flames of War In Afghanistan

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 4, 2009 • ( 0 )

  War President Obama: 30,000 More Troops to Afghanistan Obama: “We Did Not Ask for This Fight” Bush: “We Did Not Seek This Conflict” Obama: “New Attacks are Being Plotted as I Speak” Bush: “At This Moment … Terrorists are Planning… Read More ›

• Statement from the American Party of Labor on President Obama’s Announcement on Troop Escalation in Afghanistan

  By Victor Vaughn on December 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Dec. 1st – The American Party of Labor expressed today its sincere and principled opposition to the latest announcement by President Barack Obama to escalate the United States’ military presence in occupied Afghanistan by more than 30,000 US soldiers. Today’s… Read More ›

• A Peoples’ Economic Recovery

  By The Red Phoenix on November 30, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

    By Krista Lee Hanson The current economic crisis people are facing in this country—especially the millions of workers losing their jobs, the unemployed and underemployed who can’t find work, and the millions of families facing eviction from their home—offers… Read More ›

• Book Review of “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus”

  By The Red Phoenix on November 26, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is Thanksgiving, and nothing would mark the occasion better than to check out 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, a 2005 book by Charles C. Mann. The work serves as a challenge to the arguments presented to… Read More ›

• National Liberation & Islamophobia

  By The Red Phoenix on November 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Islamic “jihadist” movements of today are a product of imperialist—particularly US imperialist—aggression, intervention, bullying, exploitation and suppression of the oil-rich Islamic and Arab countries of West Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, etc., and the persecution of the entire Muslim religious… Read More ›

• Morale Down, Suicides Up For US Occupation Troops

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The United States Army recently released a study investigating the psychological effects of soldiers serving in occupied Afghanistan. According to the study’s findings, the mental and emotional toll of waging an aggressive, imperialist war against the freedom-loving peoples of Afghanistan… Read More ›

• Facts About Immigration & Joe Arpaio’s Attack on the Latino Community

  By The Red Phoenix on November 19, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Events in Maricopa The Maricopa County Sheriff’s office arrested 27 people Monday night in Arpaio’s 13th anti-immigrant raid in the Latino Community. The Sheriff’s office says 18 of these arrests were of undocumented immigrants. The two-day raid utilized helicopters and… Read More ›

• The Myth of the Boss as a Victim

  By The Red Phoenix on November 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Lately, various ideas and concepts that have been more heavily promoted in popular capitalist-owned media and culture for years are suddenly noticeably peculiar/ sinister. The one concept that has struck me most recently as both strange and completely absurd is… Read More ›

• Unemployment at its Highest in Decades

  By The Red Phoenix on November 10, 2009 • ( 0 )

  As we look at the crisis today, we see more and more that what Karl Marx said on the double character of capitalism rings truer than ever. In this system, “when wealth is produced, poverty is produced also.” In the… Read More ›

• Half of US Children, Most Black Children, Will Use Food Stamps

  By The Red Phoenix on November 7, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The results of a recent Cornell University study are shocking: 90% of black children, 90% of children in single-parent homes and nearly 50% of American children as a whole will eat meals provided for by food stamps at one point… Read More ›

• Actually, It’s the System

  By The Red Phoenix on October 31, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  [Please note that the APL does not necessarily endorse the political line of the author] Capitalism In Crisis: Actually, “It’s the System, Stupid” At the capitalist system’s core lies its central conflict. On one side, corporate boards of directors pursue… Read More ›

• Atlas is Going to Shrug

  By The Red Phoenix on October 28, 2009 • ( 0 )

  One of the more disturbing trends I and many others have noted during this rise of radical right-wing extremism in the US is the popularization of the ideology of Ayn Rand. Surely some of the readers have noticed the people… Read More ›

• On Torture

  By Victor Vaughn on October 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Who Are the Real War Criminals? On the surface, the promise to close Guantanamo—delayed as the closing is, of course—seems like the ending to a fairy tale story straight out of daytime drama. At last righteousness has triumphed over evil,… Read More ›

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