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• Libyan Women Face Islamist Rise Since Gaddafi Fall

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

  

  By MAGGIE MICHAEL On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen. They kicked her car, beat up her driver and threatened… Read More ›

• IDF teargas int’l journalists covering peaceful protest in West Bank, incl RT crew

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

  

  Several international journalists, including an RT cameraman, have suffered from teargas as IDF have launched teargas bombs at the media crews outside Ofer Prison, West Bank. In recent weeks protests outside the facility have left scores of injured. The RT… Read More ›

• Arkansas adopts most restrictive abortion law in US

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

  

  Women looking to procure an abortion in the state of Arkansas will no longer be able to do so after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, prompting opponents to threaten… Read More ›

• ‘Anti-Semitic’ Romanian author nominated for Nobel Prize

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

  

  Writers’ association in Moldova reportedly nominates Paul Goma – who is accused of ‘denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts’ – for Nobel Prize in Literature. A writers’ association in Moldova has reportedly nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of… Read More ›

• Editorial: Hugo Chávez kept his promise to the people of Venezuela

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

  

  By OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn’t hold regular cabinet meetings; he’d bring… Read More ›

• Venezuela begins seven days of mourning after death of Hugo Chávez

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

  

  Jonathan Watts and Virginia Lopez in Caracas Vice president Nicolas Maduro takes up interim post Wave of mourning breaks out in streets of Venezuela Chávez to get state funeral in Caracas Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night… Read More ›

• How Israel legitimises torturing Palestinians to death

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

  Many in the West Bank are in mourning over the passing of Arafat Jaradat, who was tortured to death in an Israeli prison – he leaves behind a pregnant widow and two children [AFP] Israel’s policy of torture has left… Read More ›

• UN demands prosecution of Bush-era CIA crimes

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

  

  A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials. Documents about the… Read More ›

• “We Saw Your Boobs” celebrates rape on film

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

  Seth MacFarlane during the Oscars on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello) Hey, Seth MacFarlane, did you know many of those “boob” scenes you sang about were depictions of sexual assault? BY KATIE MCDONOUGH Seth MacFarlane has made… Read More ›

• Kerry pledges $60 million in aid to Syrian opposition forces

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

  

  Secretary of State John Kerry announced the Obama administration will provide an additional $60 million in aid and will for the first time provide food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad. By Henry Chu and… Read More ›

• Marco McMillian Dead: Openly Gay Mississippi Mayoral Candidate’s Body Found, Homicide Suspected

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

  

  By HOLBROOK MOHR JACKSON, Miss. — A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department… Read More ›

• Officials: US to Provide Syrian Rebels With Direct Military Aid, Armored Vehicles

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

  The US is looking to dramatically broaden the definition of “non-lethal support” as it relates to Syria’s rebel factions, according to European officials familiar with recent private meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry. Expanding the definition, the US is poised… Read More ›

• Guess What? The Debt Everyone Is Freaking Out About Does Not Exist

  By The Red Phoenix on February 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  By Jeff Spross What nobody talks about. Between the new-and-improved Simpson-Bowles plan, Joe Scarborough’s feud with Paul Krugman, the relentless drumbeat of the entire Republican Party, and the media blitzkrieg launched by the billionaire-driven “Fix the Debt” campaign, one might think no serious and responsible American can ignore… Read More ›

• The Fascinating Story of “White Boy Rick”: Feds Built Him into Drug Kingpin at Age 14, Then Threw Him in Prison for Life

  By The Red Phoenix on February 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  So why did the authorities turn on him? It started when he helped the feds investigate drug corruption in the Detroit Police Department. Meet Richard Wershe. To other convicts in the Michigan penal system and the handful of DEA and… Read More ›

• Video: Niger approves construction of US spy drone base

  By The Red Phoenix on February 27, 2013 • ( 0 )