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• Israel investing capital in disputed West Bank sites

  By The Red Phoenix on January 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is advancing a plan to invest in places it considers part of its national heritage, including nine West Bank sites, the government said Monday in an announcement that could appeal to hard-line voters a week ahead of elections. It… Read More ›

• Florida sheriff wants drones to monitor civilians

  By The Red Phoenix on January 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Drones have already been deployed across several US states, but thousands of UAVs could soon be flying all across the country for surveillance purposes that some privacy advocates consider unconstitutional. The Federal Aviation Administration has received at least 60 applications… Read More ›

• Drones over New York? NYPD chief admits he’s interested in an UAV

  By The Red Phoenix on January 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The head of the New York City Police Department announced this week that the largest local law enforcement agency in the United States might soon rely on spy drones for conducting surveillance. During an open conversation held Thursday between Reuters… Read More ›

• Orbán Friend Says Roma ‘Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Exist’

  By The Red Phoenix on January 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Zsolt Bayer, a prominent conservative commentator, has sparked outrage in Hungary and abroad for comparing Roma to animals and saying they “shouldn’t be allowed to exist.” Criticism of the remarks is growing, but Prime Minister Orbán will likely keep silent…. Read More ›

• CIA drones have already killed at least 40 since the start of the year

  By The Red Phoenix on January 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The CIA has escalated its use of drones in Pakistan, launching seven deadly strikes during the first 10 days of 2013 and killing at least 40 people, 11 of which may have been civilians. The flurry of strikes has raised… Read More ›

• Video: ‘France fighting Mali Islamists while supporting extremists in Syria’

  By The Red Phoenix on January 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

• France begins Mali intervention against rebel forces

  By The Red Phoenix on January 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  France has begun an operation to push back rebel forces in Mali. A state of emergency has been declared throughout the country. “French forces brought their support this afternoon to Malian army units to fight against terrorist elements,” French President Francois… Read More ›

• Gitmo-go-round: No solution in sight on 11th Guantanamo anniversary

  By The Red Phoenix on January 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  January 11 marks the 11th anniversary since the first inmates were airlifted into the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. With an almost blanket ban on transferring prisoners out of Camp Delta in operation, it is unlikely to be the… Read More ›

• Prince Harry ‘kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk’, says Mujahideen leader

  By The Red Phoenix on January 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by ELLEN BRANAGH Prince Harry “kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk”, while foreign forces in Afghanistan have failed, a controversial Mujahideen leader in the country has declared. In an outspoken interview, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder and… Read More ›

• Video: FBI knew of plot to kill Occupy Wall Street activists, remained silent

  By The Red Phoenix on January 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Only one month into the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last year, plans were formulated to identify key figures in the movement and execute them with a coordinated assault using sniper rifles, new documents reveal.

• Justifying assassination

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

  

  If the White House is going to act as judge, jury and executioner in targeting individuals with airstrikes, the least it can do is divulge its legal rationale. A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama… Read More ›

• The Sacred Cow of American Defense Spending

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

  

  Would You Feel Safer With a Nuclear Missile Silo in Your Neighborhood? 2012 headlines were full of horrible depressing news: cuts on the federal, state, county and the city level.  The nation was subjected to a full time diet of… Read More ›

• Amnesty International’s latest arms trade campaign is colonialism with a kindly face

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

  

  If you needed any further proof that Amnesty International is to the 21st century what rum-swigging bearers of the White Man’s Burden were to the 19th, look no further than its current campaign for a global arms trade treaty. Amnesty is… Read More ›

• The ‘war on terror’ – by design – can never end

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

  

  As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on… Read More ›

• Endless ‘debate over two-state solution’ is cover for the real story, annexation of West Bank

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

  

  by Philip Weiss One of the wiser political observations I’ve read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National: “the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true nature of Israeli colonialism.” I’ve noticed the… Read More ›