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• Wisconsin’s Repeal of Equal Pay Rights Adds to Battles for Women

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

  

  by Michelle Goldberg Governor Scott Walker signed a repeal of his state’s workplace-discrimination law—the latest battleground over the issues that matter most to women. On Thursday, with little fanfare, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the state’s 2009… Read More ›

• Dartmouth Sorority Girl Goes Public With Her Hazing Nightmare

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

  

  By Cassie Murdoch After Andrew Lohse, the former Dartmouth frat boy who revealed some dark secrets about the hazing rituals that are apparently commonplace on campus, there’s been a lot of discussion about what exactly goes on in the bowels… Read More ›

• Austerity Kills: Greeks Declare ‘Financial Murder’ at Funeral of Elderly Man

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

  

  By Andrew Bashi “I am not committing suicide. They are killing me.” According to one witness, these were the last words of 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas before shooting himself in the head in Greece’s Syntagma Square last week. Speaking to The… Read More ›

• Pensioner’s Suicide Continues to Shake Greece

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

  

  By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament in despair over his financial problems has shaken this austerity-weary country and a crumbling political system struggling to assert its… Read More ›

• Greece: Clash after service for man who shot self

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

  

  By DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece A protest that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide has turned violent, with some demonstrators badly beating a policeman in Athens and stealing his bulletproof vest and other equipment. Dimitris… Read More ›

• Data Mining You

  By The Red Phoenix on April 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Tom Engelhardt I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth. On March 22,… Read More ›

• On “Bias”

  By The Red Phoenix on April 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction: Contemporary Bourgeois Journalism Any person who has watched or read a mainstream news source like CNN or Fox News, The New York Times or the Washington Post, will have eventually been confronted with the concept of “unbiased reporting.” The… Read More ›

• Humanitarian Aid Is Military Intervention

  By The Red Phoenix on April 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Joel Poindexter The recent YouTube documentary Kony 2012 has become quite a sensation. It has inspired millions of people to demand, in one form or another, that the U.S. military take action in Uganda in order to bring to… Read More ›

• Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings

  By The Red Phoenix on April 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison Four New Orleans police officers have been sentenced to decades in prison over the killing of two… Read More ›

• Parents of Trayvon Martin ask feds to investigate state prosecutor for nixing efforts to arrest George Zimmerman

  By The Red Phoenix on April 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Martin family will send a formal request for a review of State’s Attorney Wolfinger’s actions to the Justice Department on Monday, lawyer Ben Crump told CNN Sunday The parents of Trayvon Martin are asking the feds to investigate the… Read More ›

• Trayvon Martin case: Mayor says police resisted release of 911 tapes

  By The Red Phoenix on April 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  SANFORD, Florida — The mayor of the city where Trayvon Martin was killed says he overruled police and prosecutors who opposed the release of tapes of 911 calls, telling them: “We’re not here to hide anything.” Jeff Triplett, who is… Read More ›

• Does video cast doubt on Zimmerman’s story?

  By The Red Phoenix on April 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Msnbc’s Thomas Roberts speaks with contributor and Managing Editor for the Grio, Joy-Ann Reid, and Rep. Corrine Brown about the new surveillance video showing George Zimmerman four hours after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, and what it means for Zimmerman’s… Read More ›

• 911 Call: Trayvon Martin cried for help before gunshot

  By The Red Phoenix on April 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  After repeated calls for the release of the 911 audio in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the Sanford police department finally released the audio on Friday. Trayvon’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton of Miami Gardens, arrived at… Read More ›

• Miami Police detective says racism “alive and well”

  By The Red Phoenix on April 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – A black veteran Miami police officer said on Tuesday that “racism is alive and well” in the United States and is evident in the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager gunned down by a neighborhood… Read More ›

• FBI taught agents could ‘bend or suspend’ law in some probes

  By The Red Phoenix on April 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Michael Winter A review of the FBI’s counterterrorism training shows agents were taught they could “bend or suspend the law” in some investigations, Wired reports, citing a bureau document. The magazine’s Danger Room blog also writes that FBI training… Read More ›