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• Study: 41% Of Americans Have Been Arrested By The Time They’re 23

  By The Red Phoenix on October 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “Those are alarmingly high numbers. There are social, economic, educational and family risks associated with arrests. And we all have to be worried about that.” ~Dr. Eugene Beresin, a child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard Medical… Read More ›

• Nobel Prize: A tale of ignoble peace laureates

  By The Red Phoenix on October 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  One man introduced indefinite detention and expanded the deadly global drone war. Another was the architect of the deliberate mass killing of civilian populations in Indochina. What do they have in common? Both are Nobel Peace laureates. Gandhi never got… Read More ›

• GOP candidate is in favor of the death penalty for kids, cites biblical passages

  By The Red Phoenix on October 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Arkansas GOP candidate for state representative Charlie Fuqua published a book where he called for the death penalty to be imposed upon children for religious purposes. The book titled, “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution” has multiple disturbing passages where… Read More ›

• Agent Orange on Okinawa: The Smoking Gun

  By The Red Phoenix on October 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Since 1945, the small Japanese island of Okinawa has been unwilling host to a massive U.S. military presence and a storehouse for a witches’ brew of dangerous munitions and chemicals, including nerve gas, mustard gas, and nuclear missiles. However, there is one… Read More ›

• The Glaring Contradictions in Anti-Iran Policy

  By The Red Phoenix on October 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Another Manufactured Crisis by SHELDON RICHMAN President Barack Obama, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have at least one thing in common when it comes to Iran. All are guilty of flagrant self-contradiction. Each says… Read More ›

• Cops tase man for having seizure

  By The Red Phoenix on October 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Two Texan police officers are being sued for using a Taser to shock a man who was having a seizure, causing the 50-year-old to suffer a heart attack and permanent brain damage. Scott Sheeley filed a federal complaint last week… Read More ›

• Greek police collude with fascist Golden Dawn group

  By The Red Phoenix on October 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Greek police are ever-more openly colluding with the fascist Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi). On an almost daily basis, Golden Dawn members and their supporters go on the rampage in the capital Athens and other towns around the country, attacking immigrants… Read More ›

• Walmart’s First-Ever Retail Worker Strike Spreads To 12 Cities [UPDATE]

  By The Red Phoenix on October 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Alice Hines The first retail worker strike against Walmart has spread from Los Angeles, where it began last week, to stores in a dozen cities, a union official said Tuesday. Walmart workers walked off the job in Dallas, Seattle,… Read More ›

• October surprise: US and Israel prepare to strike Iran

  By The Red Phoenix on October 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli… Read More ›

• German state TV reports: Syrian rebels claim responsibility for attack on Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on October 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by R. Teichmann On Oct. 4th, the German state TV channel ZDF reported on the attack on Turkey several times. In its “Mittagsmagazin” at 1300 hours it reports as follows: 02:06 – 02:32 German: „Raketen- und Granatfeuer. Die Türkei übt… Read More ›

• NATO ‘will defend’ Turkey against Syria as Ankara moves F-16s to border

  By The Red Phoenix on October 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days of retaliation from Turkey after Syrian shells started coming over the border… Read More ›

• Greek anti-fascist protesters ‘tortured by police’ after Golden Dawn clash

  By The Red Phoenix on October 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Fifteen people arrested in Athens says they were subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation by Maria Margaronis Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have… Read More ›

• Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza

  By The Red Phoenix on October 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 12 Palestinians, including a senior militant leader. Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was targeted because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said. Another militant was… Read More ›

• Video: ‘Gaddafi regime beacon of light compared to current govt’

  By The Red Phoenix on October 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  The siege of Bani Walid, Libya’s ongoing political instability, and the alleged torture of Gaddafi loyalists has left the country a far cry from the vision that western powers had when they supported last year’s NATO bombing. Geopolitical analyst Patrick… Read More ›

• Court ruling: Anti-Jihad posters to come to Washington

  By The Red Phoenix on October 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Washington will become the next American city to display a notorious anti-Jihad public advert, after a district judge declined a local Metro injunction asking for it to be delayed. Washington Metro argued that the posters, which were scheduled to be… Read More ›