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• N. Dakota pushes abortion ban: ‘Life begins at conception’

  By The Red Phoenix on March 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  North Dakota legislatures have passed toughest anti-abortion resolution, asking the public to decide whether the state constitution should define life as beginning at conception. If approved, state-wide abortions will be outlawed. The resolution was passed on Friday and will appear… Read More ›

• Second NYPD officer testifies on stop-and-frisk quotas, racial targeting

  By The Red Phoenix on March 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Following a leaked recording seeming to prove the existence of an NYPD arrest quota system, a second police officer has come forward to explain to a federal judge why he decided to record his superiors as they directed him to… Read More ›

• Palestinian hunger striker released, exiled to Gaza

  By The Red Phoenix on March 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A Palestinian prisoner has been exiled to Gaza for ten years, after a long-term hunger strike led the Israelis to sign a deal, releasing the inmate from prison, after holding him without charge for months. “Palestinian prisoner Ayman Sharawna, who… Read More ›

• Obama makes fun of heckler asking “who killed Rachel Corrie?”

  By The Red Phoenix on March 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

   by Linah Alsaafin US President Barack Obama arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah by helicopter yesterday and gave yet another insipid speech. The Palestinian Authority’s security forces, collaborating with US forces, designated a huge security perimeter with the PA compound — the Muqataa — in… Read More ›

• Iraq War Could Cost $6 Trillion

  By The Red Phoenix on March 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by John Glaser The current price tag is already at $2 trillion The US war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans. But the cost could grow to more than $6 trillion over the… Read More ›

• Yale will train US Special Forces in interrogation techniques using immigrants as guinea pigs

  By The Red Phoenix on March 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April,… Read More ›

• Leaked trial evidence suggests NYPD set arrest quotas

  By The Red Phoenix on March 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Arrest and summons quotas for New York police were outlawed in 2010, and although solid evidence of such requirements has been difficult to come by, an audio recording obtained by a New York magazine indicates that the practice continues today…. Read More ›

• Faces of war: Ten years since Iraq invasion

  By The Red Phoenix on March 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

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• Dirty Wars: Pope Francis’ Ties to Argentina’s Right-wing Junta

  By The Red Phoenix on March 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Democracy Now! reports this morning: While praised for his work with the poor, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — has long been dogged by accusations of his role during Argentina’s military dictatorship. We speak to Horacio Verbitsky,… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Pope Francis I, good friend of Argentina’s dictatorship

  By The Red Phoenix on March 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Fascism Comes to Queens

  By The Red Phoenix on March 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›

• Israel’s Peres urges Arab intervention in Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on March 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Martine Pauwels (AFP) STRASBOURG, France — Israel’s Shimon Peres called Tuesday for Arab intervention “to stop the massacre” in Syria as he delivered the first speech by an Israeli head of state to the European Parliament in almost three… Read More ›

• ‘If you were a man, we’d kill you’: Captive journalist tells RT how she escaped Syrian rebels

  By The Red Phoenix on March 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘I couldn’t bear it any longer’, recalls Anhar Kochneva. The Ukrainian journalist who escaped Syrian rebels five months after she was kidnapped told RT about what she had to go through while in captivity and how she managed to run… Read More ›

• Over 100 Guantanamo inmates ‘on hunger strike,’ possibly in grave condition

  By The Red Phoenix on March 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they… Read More ›

• The American Party of Labor Celebrates International Women’s Day

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

  

  Comrades around the world! Today we celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day. We reaffirm that the link between women’s liberation and total human emancipation from exploitation is unbreakable, and that we cannot have one without the other. To speak about… Read More ›