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• Saudi Prince Bandar behind chemical attack in Syria: Report

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

  

  Syrians in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta say Saudi Arabia provided chemical weapons for an al-Qaeda linked terrorist group which they blame for the August 21 chemical attack in the region, a Mint Press News report says. The article co-authored… Read More ›

• Israel’s Most Liberal City Introduces Racially Segregated Kindergartens

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

  

  by Lisa Goldman When the children of south Tel Aviv head back to school on Tuesday, kindergarteners will attend facilities that are segregated by race. The children of asylum seekers from sub-Saharan Africa will go to their kindergartens and all the… Read More ›

• Trafficking Native Children: The Seamy Underbelly of U.S. Adoption Industry

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

  

  Jeremy Simmons was heartbroken, baffled and confused. He had been living with his girlfriend, Crystal Tarbox, in Mannford, Oklahoma, when she became pregnant in August, 2012. But in March of this year, he says she moved out when she was… Read More ›

• “I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision” by Michael Parenti

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

  

  The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention… Read More ›

• US, Britain and France Agree to Attack Syria Within Two Weeks

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

  

  Initially Limited Strikes Aim to Avoid Serious War Debate   by Jason Ditz Discussing the matter in a 40 minute phone call on Saturday night, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed in principle to start attacking Syria… Read More ›

• Statement on the Conviction of Chelsea Manning

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

  On August 21, 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge. Her “crime” was revealing to the world the brutality of an imperialist military that has made the whole of the earth its victim…. Read More ›

• North Carolina agrees to compensate sterilization victims for 45-year eugenics program

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

  

  After a ten-year deliberation process, North Carolina is set to be the first state to offer monetary compensation to victims of government-sponsored sterilization. Between 1929 and 1974, the state sterilized an estimated 7,600 people by choice, force or coercion under… Read More ›

• Egypt Court Orders Mubarak Release from Jail

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

  

  Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be released from jail on Thursday after prosecutors cleared him in a corruption case earlier this week, a lawyer tells Reuters agency. On Wednesday, a criminal court in Cairo upheld a petition from Mubarak’s… Read More ›

• Venezuela Withdraws Its Ambassador from Egypt

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

  

  Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced today that he would withdraw the country’s ambassador from Egypt because of the conflict there and confrontations between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and the defacto government, which has seen over 700 people killed. “We… Read More ›

• “I am Chelsea”: Read Chelsea Manning’s full statement

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

  

  The Next Stage of My Life I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years. Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong. I am forever indebted to… Read More ›

• Reports of massive chemical attack near Damascus as UN observers arrive in Syria

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

  

  Conflicting reports emerged of recent chemical weapons use in Syria. This comes on the same day that the UN inspectors arrive in Damascus to investigate allegations of use of toxic arms. The casualty figures range from dozens to almost 1,300… Read More ›

• Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison

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

  

  A US military judge has sentenced Army Private Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison. Manning faced up to 90 years behind bars, while prosecutors sought to put the whistleblower away for a minimum of six decades. Manning will be… Read More ›

• CIA admits role in 1953 Iran coup against democratically-elected Mosadeq

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

  

  The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has for the first time published a document that confirms Washington’s role in the 1953 coup d’état against the democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq. The open acknowledgment by the US intelligence community comes… Read More ›

• CIA admits to helping overthrow Iran’s democratically elected leader in 1953

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

  

  By Saeed Kamali Dehghan The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran’s democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, in documents that also show how the British government tried to… Read More ›

• There Has Been No Improvement in the Hires Rate in Two Years

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

  

  By Heidi Shierholz The June Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a grim picture of job opportunities in today’s labor market. The “hires rate”—the share of total employment accounted for by… Read More ›