Paul Phillips

LATEST ARTICLES ( 506 )

• Power & Social Control: How We Will Win Against It

  Bourgeois democracy has failed us. It has not failed us because it’s Utopian characteristics or attributes are completely misguided. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What's Behind the Suleimani Assassination?

  It seems that Pres. Trump could very well have made the largest foreign policy miscalculation in the Mid-East region since Pres. Bush II invaded Iraq in 2003.... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is to Be Done?.2020

  To smash capitalism. That is the central goal of the far/radical left movement. Why is this our goal? This should be everyone’s goal in that the very rich, the... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2020 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Five More Images for Propaganda Use!

  Comrades, sorry it’s coming a day late (again) but I had some obligations yesterday. Here”s the link to the image gallery with the five new images included.... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• STL Photo Propaganda Collection!

  Hey Comrades, Since I’m taking a break at STL until the beginning of 2019, I am going to start up the image gallery posts again. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Short Hiatus

  

  Comrades, with the still recent relaunch of Sparking The Left I hate to inform you that I will be taking a further break from posting new material. Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Dialogue: Media Bias

  What is the media: The main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively. What is the purpose of the media:... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NYT: Families Hurt by Unstable Work Hours for Mothers

  

  Short post today: Here’s a great article from the NYT’s The Upshot series from Oct. 16th that further shows how work is violence for the American family. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Organized Workers Taking It to the 1%

  

  In yesterday’s NYT there was a good article entitled “In a Strong Economy, Why Are So Many Workers on Strike?” It reported that from Chicago teachers, to GM... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Farewell, Shepard Smith

  

  This was the shocking farewell sign-off by Shepard Smith last Friday at the end of his “Shepard Smith Reporting” program. As a news host at the Right-wing... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Gulag Was Stalin, Not Soviet

  

  This past week I finished reading the book Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize winning effort. I found this book compelling with its... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• American Childcare System: A National Disgrace

  A quick post today: One of the major obstacles challenging unemployed single parents today who are entering/reentering the American work force is the non... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Don’t Be Distracted by This Bourgeois Drama!

  

  If you have been paying attention to the mainstream media over the last week or two you know that the usual outlets are running around with their hair on fire... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• In the “Broken Capitalism” Series Being Published Over At...

  In the “Broken Capitalism” series being published over at The Guardian, Heather Boushey argues that the way academics measure economic growth is outdated and... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 10 Reasons We Need Medicare-For-All as a Human Right

  An article from In These Times lists 10 stats showing why Medicare-for-All would provide and protect a human right. As you know, healthcare is currently going... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cory Booker and The Danger of Reformism

  Cory Booker is a US senator from New Jersey and a Democratic presidential candidate. On April 24, 2019, an op-ed piece penned by Sen. Booker was posted on The... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NYT: Many Top Corps Paying 0% Taxes Driving Some to Far Left Organization

  We want what the people want: Mr. Robertson, the carpet cleaner, has his own idea: nationalizing the companies. “I think forcing them to pay higher alone is... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Intercept: Report Finds Much Higher Civilian Death Toll in Raqqa, Syria

  There is a myth that our airstrikes are so surgical do to laser targeting, advanced intelligence abilities, and other technologies that civilian deaths (or,... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Gentrification Here and Abroad

  

  For this post I want to talk about an issue that hits close to home for me. It deals with a concept some may not know the definition of or have heard of but... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Links to “The Battle of Algiers”

  

  If you have not seen Pontecorvo’s 1966 masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers, I both admonish you and, yet, envy you. I admonish you in that you have not done... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2019 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY