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• The 13-Year War

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

  by PAUL WALDMAN As we draw closer to the withdrawal in Afghanistan promised at the close of 2014, a look back at America’s longest war. In October 2001, George W. Bush told the country he was sending the American military to… Read More ›

• Unemployed far outnumber job openings in every sector

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

  

  The figure below shows the number of unemployed workers and the number of job openings by sector. Unemployed workers far outnumber job openings in every sector, underscoring the fact that the main cause of today’s persistent high unemployment is a… Read More ›

• Photos of January 19th International Solidarity Protests With Greece Against the Fascist Golden Dawn

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

  International NEW! A list of the demos and actions organised internationally for 19Jan: London Glasgow Edimburgh Leeds Bristol   Cork Dublin Derry Barcelona Ossona Manresa La Garriga Bilbao Lyon Brussels Berlin Copenhagen Vienna Tampere Warsow Vilnious Moscow Chicago New York… Read More ›

• US starts airlifting French troops to Mali

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

  

  The United States has begun airlifting French soldiers and equipment to Mali with its C-17 transport planes, in an attempt to push back Islamist militants that have taken over the northern half of the country. The airlifting will continue for… Read More ›

• A Call for International Solidarity for the 19th of January Anti-Fascist Protests against Golden Dawn

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

  

  Chicago/Greece Anti-Fascist Working Group Press Contact: Chris Geovanis, chrisgeovanis@gmail.com, NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com, 312-446-4939 https://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | http://on.fb.me/Xck0Nf | @NoGoldenDawnChi | #antifa19jan #Greece January 19, 2012 Greetings from Chicago, comrades. We write as workers, immigrants, artists and activists from a host of backgrounds with one message… Read More ›

• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

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

  Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Mali: France’s war for uranium!

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

  

• List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen

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

  

  Compiled from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports PAKISTAN Name | Age | Gender Noor Aziz | 8 | male Abdul Wasit | 17 | male Noor Syed | 8 | male Wajid Noor | 9 | male Syed Wali Shah |… Read More ›

• The War on Mali. What you Should Know: An Eldorado of Uranium, Gold, Petroleum, Strategic Minerals …

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

  

  By R. Teichman The French government has stated that: “it would send 2,500 troops to support Malian government soldiers in the conflict against Islamist rebels. France has already deployed around 750 troops to Mali, and French carriers arrived in Bamako on… Read More ›

• Homeless Man Choked to Death by Store Manager for Stealing Toothpaste

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

  

  CVS – the once thought of drug and convenience store will now be known as the store that defends its manager’s rights to kill shoplifters…even those that are caught taking a single tube of toothpaste. Death for toothpaste. Would anyone ever exchange… Read More ›

• Al Qaeda’s enemy in Mali, friend in Syria, and air force in Libya

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

  

  By Stephen Gowans New York Times reporters Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, writing on January 16 about the “hazy threat from Mali militants,” note that, “The group most worrisome to American officials is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which… Read More ›

• Video: Saudi-Backed Terrorists in Syria Declare War on NATO-Backed Terrorists in Syria

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

• King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.

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

  

  by Norman Solomon A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration four years ago… Read More ›

• After 19 years behind bars, man sues Chicago police for framing him

  By The Red Phoenix on January 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  After nearly two decades of imprisonment for a murder he didn’t commit, a Chicago man says he was framed by a group of policemen who bribed court witnesses to go along with their story and has filed a lawsuit against… Read More ›

• Laws urged to curb snooping by drones

  By The Red Phoenix on January 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Privacy safeguards not keeping up with eye-in-sky technology, critics say Big Brother and Big Business may soon be able to easily spy on American citizens using surveillance drones, security and civil liberties specialists warned Tuesday. As technology inches closer to… Read More ›