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• Bradley Manning denied chance to make whistleblower defence

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

  

  Judge rules that Manning will not be allowed to present evidence about his motives for the leak – a key plank of his defence Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of being behind the largest leak of state secrets in… Read More ›

• Editorial: Can’t Save? Here’s Why

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

  

  By HELAINE OLEN THE odds are good that you haven’t yet given up on your New Year’s resolutions and that one of them is to swear off those expensive cappuccinos and save money for your old age. That’s a typical suggestion… Read More ›

• UN report exposes torture of Afghan detainees

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

  An Afghan special forces soldier (AFP Photo / Daud Yardos)   A new UN report has exposed cases of vicious torture of Afghan detainees, including beatings, hanging by the wrists and electric shocks. Many were handed over to authorities by… Read More ›

• Former Drone Operator turned Whistleblower: “I saw men, women and children die”

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

  by Ezra Van Auken American drones have been a problem around the world since their inception in the early 2000s; in the past year or so, the advocacy against drones has increased immensely. This could be partly due to the… Read More ›

• Israel must remove all Jewish settlers from occupied West Bank – UN inquiry

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

  Jewish settlers hold Israeli flags near the West Bank city. (Reuters / Ronen Zvulun) A UN human rights inquiry has called on Israel to remove all Jewish settlers from the West Bank and cease expansion. The report said the settlements… Read More ›

• France in Mali: The longue durée of imperial blowback

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

  The current crisis in Mali is a product of French colonialism, and their intervention will sadly create more blowback. The present intervention in Mali, however necessary and well-intentioned it is, may produce its own blowback [Reuters] The dispatching of French… Read More ›

• Profiting off hunger: Wall Street makes big gains over food price spikes

  By The Red Phoenix on January 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  AFP Photo / Tony Karuba Powerful firms like Goldman Sachs have made hundreds of millions of dollars in food future trades. Critics accuse them of profiting off starvation and market manipulation, while traders claim their profits are due to increasing… Read More ›

• Hacked e-mails reveal ‘Washington approved’ plan to stage Syria chemical attack

  By The Red Phoenix on January 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BY: RYAN KELLER On Saturday, Cyber War News released a cache of e-mails allegedly hacked by someone in Malaysia from a British private defense contractor called Britam Defence. One of the e-mails contains a discussion between Britam’s Business Development Director David Goulding and… Read More ›

• Mali forces accused of myriad abuses in Western-backed fight

  By The Red Phoenix on January 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Malian soldiers patrol in a street of Diabaly on January 23, 2013 (AFP Photo / Eric Feferberg) Mali’s army has been carrying out summary executions in its war with Islamist rebels, an international human rights group claims. Meanwhile Russia’s FM… Read More ›

• Britain to send 350 troops to Mali as part of EU mission

  By The Red Phoenix on January 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Downing Street has said that the British government will dispatch 350 troops to Mali to aid French troops stationed in the country’s north, as part of a UK mission to train local forces and engage in “force protection.” British representatives… Read More ›

• Stacey Campfield, Tennessee GOP Lawmaker, Wants To Tie Welfare Benefits To Children’s Grades

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

  By Nick Wing Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield (R) introduced a bill this week seeking to make welfare benefits contingent upon the grades of a would-be recipient’s children. Campfield’s legislation, filed Thursday, would “require the reduction of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families… Read More ›

• Five killed, 23 wounded as Iraqi army opens fire on anti-govt protest

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

  A wounded protester is carried during clashes with security forces in Fallujah, 50 km (31 miles) west of Baghdad, January 25, 2013 (Reuters / Mohanned Faisal)   Iraqi soldiers killed five people after opening fire on an anti-government protest in… Read More ›

• World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over

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

  AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is… Read More ›

• Golden Dawn Gets EU Human Rights Seat

  By The Red Phoenix on January 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  By Andy Dabilis The wife of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader has been allowed to join the Council of Europe, a human rights organization, despite her denunciation of immigrants as “subhuman” and as the party is being blamed for rising incidents… Read More ›

• Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the President’s First Term Cause Death and Destruction From Iraq to Somalia

  By The Red Phoenix on January 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Written by Nicolas J.S. Davies | AlterNet Day after day, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: “Why do they hate us?” Many people around the world are disturbed by U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan,… Read More ›