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The Return of Duvalier
Of all the various tinpot dictators that the United States government has supported over the years, very few match up to the notoriety of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier of Haiti, whom in the manner befitting Nero, laughed as Rome burned. In one of the poorest countries in the…
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Statement on Unemployment
For Immediate Release The January unemployment figures have been released. We believe that they will be slightly lower than before, and that the Obama Administration will be using this to say that their policies are working. However, there is a deeper truth to the matter. The December 2010 unemployment figures, set at 9.4%, are grossly…
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Israel: A Palestinian Trail of Tears
There is a Middle Eastern state that repeatedly disobeys United Nations directives issued to it. This state has weapons of mass destruction and violates its neighbor’s borders on a routine basis. When it does, it commits ethnic cleansing and the settler seizure of land. It also maintains a strict system of apartheid within its own…
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Fascism: Origins and Ideology
Post War Chaos The social and political upheaval that accompanied the end of World War I fused the various attitudes (elitism, racism, irrationalism, anti-modernism) that characterized the radical right of the early years of the century into a cohesive political movement, fascism. Fascism was nurtured in the atmosphere of chaos, uncertainty, disillusionment, and rebellion that…
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The Deep Roots of Reaction: the Radical Right
The triumphant liberal capitalism of the 19th century faced two challenges by the close of the 1800s, the first, socialism, was its direct dialectical antithesis and would culminate in the development of the science of Marxism-Leninism. The other, which claimed to reject liberalism and all it stood for, would eventually fuse with capitalism itself: the…
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On the 1997 Albanian Rebellion
In light of the recent unrest in Albania, we release this analysis of the events in Albania in 1997 and the forces leading up to that revolution for the reader’s benefit. For the recent events, click here for an article from Al-Jazeera English. Video below. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Hg8pv6bpk&feature=player_embedded] After the death of Enver Hoxha and the rise…
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Cold War Butcher in Custody
CIA-trained ‘terrorist’ in US court Margarita Morales Fernandez couldn’t be in court to see the former CIA agent who allegedly killed her father and 72 others aboard a Cuban airplane in one of the world’s worst airline attacks before September 11, 2001. Fernandez and hundreds other victims are carefully watching the trial of former CIA…
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Briefly on “Reverse-Racism”
Although it is common to hear it in public discourse, particularly in regards to television and radio, the truth is that the concept of “reverse-racism” or “reverse discrimination” is at best a bogeyman erected by the corporate media and at worst a myth. Glenn Beck and company in particular have become obsessed with painting organizations…
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MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement
MLK Day: A Dream Lost From 01/10 Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights leaders, was chosen to receive a federal holiday.…
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Uprisings in Tunisia & Algeria
The North African countries of Tunisia and Algeria have seen widespread worker uprisings, riots and clashes between police and protesters for the past three weeks in reaction to rising cost of living, skyrocketing unemployment and poor living conditions. The mass protests in Algeria began in earnest earlier this month in reaction to soaring food prices…
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