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• Saudi writer urges groping of women to make them stay at home

  By The Red Phoenix on June 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A Saudi writer with more than 97,000 Twitter followers has been promoting the molestation of women on under the hash-tag #harass_female_cashiers to pressure for Saudi women to stay at home in order to protect their chastity. Abdullah Mohammad Al Dawood,… Read More ›

• Police Retreat as Protests Expand Through Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on June 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By TIM ARANGO ISTANBUL — Violent protests against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan engulfed Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, on Saturday and spread to other cities, including the capital, Ankara, as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the… Read More ›

• NATO data: Assad winning the war for Syrians’ hearts and minds

  By The Red Phoenix on June 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — After two years of civil war, support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was said to have sharply increased. NATO has been studying data that told of a sharp rise in support for Assad. The… Read More ›

• Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

  By The Red Phoenix on June 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BY KIRSTEN WEST Former Ward 2 Councilman and Chokwe Lumumba, 65, is the new mayor of  Jackson, Miss., winning the general election with 87 percent of the vote, reports Fight Back! News. “I’m just delighted. I feel wonderfully well about the people and their… Read More ›

• Taksim Square Protests: 13 Photos Showing Severity of the Protests

  By The Red Phoenix on June 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Christian Rice Protesters flooded Istanbul’s Taksim Square Friday after heavy-handed police tactics and increasing dissatisfaction with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who some say is becoming increasingly authoritarian. The mainstream media has yet to highlight the protests. Meanwhile,… Read More ›

• Turkey Protests Continue to Surge: Over 1,700 Arrested

  By The Red Phoenix on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  235 Separate Rallies Reported Nationwide by Jason Ditz Protests continue to grow in Turkey, with a third day of rallies seeing tens of thousands of people attending at least 90 separate rallies in the nation’s four largest cities, and 235… Read More ›

• Video: This is how we unite, this is how we struggle

  By The Red Phoenix on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

• The day the people of Turkey rose up — in pictures

  By The Red Phoenix on June 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Police forced to retreat from Istanbul’s Taksim square as protests against the authoritarian neoliberalism of Erdogan’s proto-Islamist government grow. For more background, read a solidarity statement here. For an update on the situation on the ground in Istanbul, check our latest… Read More ›

• Cheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Ignites Racist Hate Storm

  By The Red Phoenix on June 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  by Jorge Rivas We’ve seen interracial couples on television for decades but corporate companies have largely stayed away from including them in advertising. The sitcom “I Love Lucy,” which premiered in 1951, was the first television program to feature an interracial couple starring… Read More ›

• Turkish union to strike from Tuesday over unrest

  By The Red Phoenix on June 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  ISTANBUL, June 3 (Reuters) – Turkey’s Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK) said on Monday it would hold a “warning strike” on June 4-5 to protest at a crackdown on anti-government protests over the last four days. “The state terror implemented… Read More ›

• Violence Soars in Iraq: Over 1,000 Killed in Month of May

  By The Red Phoenix on June 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  High Death Tolls Not Seen Since 2007 by Jason Ditz With the month of May coming to a close, the trend of worsening violence in Iraq became all the more apparent. After April being the highest death toll in years with several… Read More ›

• Pots, pans and the mundane terror at Taksim

  By The Red Phoenix on June 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  On Friday I picked up my Turkish residence permit, breathed a sigh of relief, then came home to Taksim and was promptly tear gassed. I hadn’t joined the Gezi clashes, nor was I up close trying to get some citizen… Read More ›

• Syria calls on Turkish PM to resign over crackdown

  By The Red Phoenix on June 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Syria gleefully turned the tables on Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday over his response to anti-government demonstrations, calling on him to halt the violent repression of peaceful protests or resign. Erdogan, a former ally of Bashar al-Assad, turned against… Read More ›

• Updates From A Comrade in Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Update as of 6 am (PST)  Due to a media blackout, the following updates are hard to confirm, but come directly from comrades on the ground in an undisclosed major city. Vicious attacks from state security Police chased protesters towards… Read More ›

• Thousands of protesters pack Istanbul’s Taksim Square, over 900 arrested across Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Police in Istanbul have withdrawn from Taksim Square, allowing the mass protest to continue unabated, Turkish media report. Istanbul and Ankara are entering the third day of violent protests, with tear gas and water cannon deployed and over 900 arrested…. Read More ›