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• Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

  By The Red Phoenix on August 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Todd Woody As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis melliferapopulation that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has… Read More ›

• Egyptian forces shoot dead over 70 Mursi supporters

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

  

  Egyptian security forces shot dead at least 70 supporters of ousted President Mohammed Mursi on Saturday, his Muslim Brotherhood said, days after the army chief called for a popular mandate to tackle “violence and terrorism.” Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad said… Read More ›

• NK News Exclusive: Defector plans to send message by returning to N. Korea

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

  

  Son Jong-hun has spent 11 years in South Korea, but despairs over the treatment of North Koreans here BY HYOWON SHIN SEOUL – A North Korean defector and activist –– who has spent more than a decade in Seoul –– plans… Read More ›

• S. Korea hits Pyongyang with ‘final proposal’ on Kaesong industrial zone

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

  

  Seoul is set to close all production lines in the troubled Kaesong industrial zone if negotiations with Pyongyang bring no positive fruit. Suspended production in Kaesong has left 53,000 North Koreans jobless and caused $935 million losses to business. After… Read More ›

• Saudi prince defects from royal family

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

  

  Prince Khalid Bin Farhan Al-Saud has announced his defection from Al Saud royal family through a statement, calling on other princes to break their silence and reveal the truth for sake of God. In his statement on Saturday, the Saudi… Read More ›

• The First Death

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

  

  We received the following letter just this morning. We deeply morn the loss of ‘Guero,’ the first to die in the hunger strike.  He died for more than himself. Killed by his conditions, by this system, we remember him. It… Read More ›

• ‘Crack baby’ study ends with unexpected but clear result

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

  

  By Susan FitzGerald Jaimee Drakewood hurried in from the rain, eager to get to her final appointment at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Ever since her birth 23 years ago, a team of researchers has been tracking every aspect of her… Read More ›

• Russian Neo-Nazi Groups Tricking and Torturing Gay Male Teenagers, the Blood is on Putin’s Hands

  By The Red Phoenix on July 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  [TRIGGER WARNING: GRAPHIC ANTI-LGBTQ VIOLENCE, HOMOPHOBIA] by Adrian Garcia President Putin’s crusade against LGBT community in Russia has taken a new disturbing turn. Russian Neo Nazis have been advised by a top-ranking supremacist to create fake profiles on a popular Russian… Read More ›

• Imprison the Royal Family and Abolish the Monarchy

  By The Red Phoenix on July 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Hamilton Nolan As the world waits with bated breath for the emergence of the latest—and cutest—member of the British Royal Family, allow us to put forth a gentle reminder: In a just world, this innocent child would be going… Read More ›

• George Zimmerman’s heroic car crash rescue appears to be a fraud

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

  

  This was a suspicious story from the beginning. We have seen news reports of protesters doing thousands of dollars of damage to be wrong. The claims of separate attacks by protesters over the Zimmerman verdict turned out to be false…. Read More ›

• Juror Says ‘George Zimmerman Got Away With Murder’

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

  

  A woman who sat on the all-female jury that acquitted George Zimmerman said in an interview set to air Friday that the former neighborhood watch captain “got away with murder” in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. … Read More ›

• Cuba announces new anticancer drug

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

  

  HAVANA, July 21 (Xinhua) — Cuban scientists have developed a new anticancer drug which, unlike other cytostatics, does not damage healthy cells, local daily Juventud Rebelde reported Sunday. The drug penetrates the nucleus membrane of the malign cell and necrotizes… Read More ›

• Israel Admits Harvesting Organs From Dead Bodies Without Permission

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

  

  (AP) JERUSALEM – Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic… Read More ›

• Over 500 ‘Al-Qaeda militants’ escape Iraq’s Abu Ghraib in violent break-out

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

  

  A manhunt is underway in Iraq for hundreds of convicts, including senior Al-Qaeda terrorists, who broke out of Abu Ghraib prison after a military-style raid to free them, authorities said on Monday. The militant Islamist organization has claimed responsibility for… Read More ›

• Syria Kurds plan temporary autonomous government

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

  

  The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria, plans to create a temporary autonomous government in the northern part of the Arab country, PYD head Saleh Muslim says.   Muslim said that the… Read More ›