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• Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Bill Stalled

  By The Red Phoenix on August 6, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  SB 1070 Arizona’s anti-immigrant law SB 1070 was to be implemented next week, but U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton has blocked the controversial racial profiling sections of the law from taking effect due to pressure from the United Front… Read More ›

• Communism Vs. American Exceptionalism

  By The Red Phoenix on August 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Among the fallacies Americans have come to accept regarding communism, one of the most prevalent is the notion that communism is anti-American and threatens the “sacred foundations” of our presumed American freedom. During the Red Scares and the era of… Read More ›

• Review: Genocide, War Crimes and the West

  By The Red Phoenix on August 1, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Adam Jones’ book Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity is an incredibly revealing anthology containing accounts of atrocities carried out by Western imperial capitalism and those who serve its interests abroad. Articles describing the little-known and little-understood… Read More ›

• Leaked Afghanistan Papers Expose Truth of US War Crimes

  By The Red Phoenix on July 29, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The 25th of July, 2010 is a day that will be marked in history. The media has been abuzz about the release by Wikileaks of the Afghanistan War Logs, which are being called the “new Pentagon Papers.” Wikileaks founder Julian… Read More ›

• The Myth of Capitalist Democracy

  By The Red Phoenix on July 27, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Capitalist “democracies” always pride themselves on how democratic their systems are, being that despite any blatant differences in economic power or existing societal prejudices based around race, gender, sexuality or nationality, the system is fair and just because of its… Read More ›

• Review of “Reds”

  By Victor Vaughn on July 24, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Basic Facts Reds is a 1981 film about the life of American journalist-turned-revolutionary John Reed (Warren Beatty). It functions at once as a political and romantic biography of Reed as well as a historical account of the October Revolution in… Read More ›

• A Marxist Perspective on Human Nature

  By Editor-in-Chief on July 21, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Of all the reactionary squawking against the theory of Marxism, of the need for and viability of revolution, no worry is more prevalent than that of “human nature.” According to the capitalist, human beings are fundamentally greedy, ego-centric beings who… Read More ›

• Letters to the American Party of Labor: If Socialism is So Great, Why Did it Collapse?

  By Victor Vaughn on July 18, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The following is a letter sent to redphoenixsite@gmail.com from alias NewDealNow. Dear APL, I’ve been reading your articles in The Red Phoenix for a while, and I like some of the things you have to say about Glenn Beck and… Read More ›

• The Media’s Love Affair with Zionism/Israel

  By The Red Phoenix on July 15, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  So you don’t believe that the imperialist bourgeois media takes an active interest in framing the information you consume on a daily basis? Think its all about being “fair and balanced?”Most recently, the Western bourgeois media made good use of… Read More ›

• Review of “This Land is Their Land”

  By The Red Phoenix on July 12, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  In a world where the grossest forms of capitalist exploitation are ignored or rendered mundane by a bourgeois media machine fueled on free market fetishism and “news” about as enlightening as a lobotomy, it is refreshing to see a decent… Read More ›

• North Korea Accused of Sinking South Korean Warship

  By Editor-in-Chief on July 8, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Accusations of Warmongering On March 26th, the Cheonan, a South Korean warship was sunk close to the disputed maritime border. The 1200-ton vessel was split into two and sunk 8 miles from North Korea and 150 from the South Korean… Read More ›

• On the Day of American Independence

  By The Red Phoenix on July 4, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›

• Head General Fired from Afghanistan Occupation

  By Victor Vaughn on July 1, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The Facts The resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, the US/NATO commander of the Afghanistan War, has been accepted by President Obama amidst a controversy of remarks he made in an interview with Rolling Stone. Within 36 hours of the uproar… Read More ›

• Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Ain’t Gonna Clean This Up

  By The Red Phoenix on June 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  I know that for the past thirty years, at least since the Reagan Administration, the US has perused a policy of “let the market fix it,” “deregulate” and other such policies. These policies are wrongheaded and have led to the… Read More ›

• Resources Discovered in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Within a few days of each other, US media has reported tremendous mineral wealth in Afghanistan and in Zimbabwe, two countries noted for their poverty. In the case of Afghanistan, The New York Times reported that “nearly $1 trillion in… Read More ›

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