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• Video: Al-Qaeda Brigades Formed in Syria to Join “Free Syrian Army”

  By The Red Phoenix on July 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

• Iraqis Evicted from Damascus by “Free Syrian Army”

  By The Red Phoenix on July 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Rami Ruhayem BBC News, Baghdad In the late evening, a busload of Iraqis arrived in Baghdad after a 12-hour journey across the desert. With a mixture of anger and resignation, they said that they had been forced to leave… Read More ›

• Assad hands control of Syria’s Kurdish areas to PKK, sparking outrage in Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on July 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Roy Gutman ISTANBUL — President Bashar Assad, facing a growing rebel presence in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and its commercial hub, has turned control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds who Turkey has long branded as… Read More ›

• Under Israeli blockade of Gaza, books are a rare, cherished commodity

  By The Red Phoenix on July 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Israel does not explicitly ban importing books to Gaza, but the blockade makes it extraordinarily difficult to do so. The shortage amounts to a kind of censorship, Gazans say. By Ruqaya Izzidien, Contributor Gaza City, Gaza The Israeli blockade of… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Russia and China veto on US military intervention in Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on July 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Alexander Cockburn, Acerbic Writer and Critic, Dies at 71

  By The Red Phoenix on July 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, where he had been receiving medical… Read More ›

• L.A.: Anaheim protest police shooting women and children

  By The Red Phoenix on July 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

• US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts

  By The Red Phoenix on July 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Justice Department spent millions of dollars on what is considered to be the largest human trafficking case in the US, only to dismiss it on the grounds that the government would be unable to prove the charges beyond a… Read More ›

• Anaheim police kill another man, cops filmed firing on women & children at protest

  By The Red Phoenix on July 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Anaheim police have shot dead yet another man just a day after killing 24-year old Manuel Diaz. The previous day’s shooting sparked a protest against police brutality that was violently broken up by authorities. Police say the second shooting took… Read More ›

• Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money

  By The Red Phoenix on July 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  For half a decade, American taxpayers unknowingly spent millions of dollars a year to fund the so-called “democracy building” missions in Iraq carried out by Blackwater, the private security firm which regularly changes it name to hide its sins. A… Read More ›

• Protesters storm Anaheim police station in wake of fatal shooting

  By The Red Phoenix on July 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A group of protesters stormed the lobby of the Anaheim police station Sunday, about half an hour before Police Chief John Welter was scheduled to reveal more details about a fatal officer-involved shooting the night before that sparked a confrontation… Read More ›

• Police: Man shot after suspicious activity

  By The Red Phoenix on July 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By SONYA QUICK, FERMIN LEAL, ERIC CARPENTER and CINDY CARCAMO / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ANAHEIM – Police Chief John Welter said Sunday afternoon that a man killed by officers was chased because of suspicious activity. The dead man was… Read More ›

• Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) Interview with Jacob Jugashvili

  By The Red Phoenix on July 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  [Translated by PC (AP)] INTERVIEW JACOB JUGASHVILI, THE GREAT GRANDSON OF THE MAN OF STEEL Vladimir Ilich Lenin Cell Chilean Comunista Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) La Serena – Chile Jacob Jugashvili is a graduate professional artist, his native country… Read More ›

• Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria) Entrevista con Jacob Jugashvili

  By The Red Phoenix on July 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  ENTREVISTA JACOB JUGASHVILI, EL BISNIETO DEL HOMBRE DE ACERO Por Celula Vladimir Ilich Lenin Partido Comunista Chileno PC (AP) La Serena-Chile Jacob Jugashvili es un artista (pintor) profesional graduado en su país natal Georgia e Inglaterra. Hoy en día su… Read More ›

• The Houla Massacre

  By The Red Phoenix on July 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Stephen Gowans Syrian government forces may or may not have been responsible for the killing of 108 civilians at Houla. Witness accounts point to militias that may have been acting independently of the Syrian government. One account describes the… Read More ›