“He is simply one of the giants of American foreign policy,” President Obama said of him on Monday. Upon the news of the sudden death of Richard Holbrooke on December 13th, 2010, an elaborate state funeral was quickly arranged,… Read More ›
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Review of “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland”
A Glimpse at the Perpetrators of Genocide When we think about the various atrocities of history, something in our nature wants us to think of the perpetrators as being different from normal people. We envision brutes and sadists; stereotypical villains… Read More ›
Review of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”
Slog through the murky depths of scandal, controversy, and murder in Jeremy Scahill’s chilling account of Blackwater Worldwide’s ascension to prominence as the world’s most powerful private military company (PMC). Jeremy Scahill earns his keep as an accomplished investigative journalist… Read More ›
On the Ninth Anniversary of the Afghanistan War
October 7, 2001 – Present Today, the war and military occupation in Afghanistan continues onwards for its tenth year, marking the ninth anniversary of the invasion on October 7th, 2001. The so-called “Global War on Terror” has escalated into a… Read More ›
Cold War Killer File: Augusto Pinochet
“Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.” – Augusto Pinochet “Not a leaf moves in this country if I’m not moving it.” – Pinochet, October 1981 Remember September 11th, 1973 During the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence… Read More ›
Review: Genocide, War Crimes and the West
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 ›
The Media’s Love Affair with Zionism/Israel
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 ›
Update on Gaza War Crimes: Final Body Count
Palestinians killed: 1,417 Wounded: 5,303 Israeli deaths: 13 Israeli troops sent into Gaza: 176, 500 Over 4000 homes destroyed, $2 billion worth of damage, 51,000 residents displaced, 400,000 Palestinians left without running water. The terrorist state of Israel has shown… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 