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• Koch Brothers Front Group Hosts Sham Occupy Debate

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

  A seemingly normal Occupy event in Bellevue, Nebraska, has taken a bizarre turn. It’s recently come to light that the supposed host organization, Occupy Omaha, had nothing to do with it. The event, slated for Feb. 4 at Bellevue University’s… Read More ›

• Occupy Omaha Disowns Americans for Prosperity Debate

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

  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Occupy Omaha Disowns Americans for Prosperity Debate Omaha, Nebraska – February 2, 2012 – On Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, Bellevue University is hosting an event advertised as a debate between Occupy Omaha and Americans for Prosperity. Occupy… Read More ›

• Reagan’s Hand in Guatemala’s Genocide

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

  

  By Robert Parry Guatemala is taking steps to hold an ex-dictator accountable for genocide committed against Maya-Ixil Indians in the 1980s, even as the United States continues to honor the American president — Ronald Reagan — who helped make that… Read More ›

• Romney: ‘I’m not concerned about the very poor’

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

  

  All political candidates — just like all non-politicians — make verbal gaffes. On Monday, for example, Republicans jumped on President Obama for saying the word “interesting” when a woman asked him a question about her unemployed husband. (In that exchange,… Read More ›

• The Rise of Rand Paul and the Mainstreaming of the Racist Right

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

  

  Just what is this Rand Paul phenomenon anyways? Shortly after taking on the Republican political establishment– and winning– in the Kentucky Senate primary, Paul has Republicans, Libertarians, and Democrats all wondering if he’s the real deal or not. For starters,… Read More ›

• Christie Finds Himself on Short End With Civil-Rights Remark

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

  

  By Terrence Dopp Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Representative John Lewis, a veteran of the U.S. civil-rights movement, joined New Jersey Democrats criticizing Governor Chris Christie after he said blacks in the 1960s would have preferred referendums on desegregation — a… Read More ›

• Ku Klux Klan: a violent history

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

  

  By Tom Leonard The organisation – founded by ex-Confederate soldiers following the American Civil War – has long been far more ruthless and violent than any white supremacist group in the UK. Started in 1865 as a secret society (taking… Read More ›

• 47 Killed as Former Libyan Mercs Fight Mali Military

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

  

  Tuareg Spokesman Rejects Claim of Major Military Victory by Jason Ditz, January 19, 2012 The Malian military is reporting that at least 47 people were killed [on Jan. 19th], including 45 rebels, as fighting between troops and ethnic Tuareg fighters… Read More ›

• Homeless hard hit as death toll from severe cold spell in eastern Europe hits 58

  By The Red Phoenix on January 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine — Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap, and some analysts blame a Soviet-era legacy of viewing the homeless as those who need to be punished instead of helped. Temperatures… Read More ›

• $513 Billion DoD Budget Won’t Budge

  By The Red Phoenix on January 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Top Democrat on House Armed Services Committee vows no further cuts by John Glaser, January 25, 2012 A top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that the $513 billion defense budget for 2013 cannot be negotiated upwards…. Read More ›

• US report of border attack denounced by Pakistan

  By The Red Phoenix on January 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Declan Walsh ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military has issued an uncompromising formal rejection of the United States military’s report last month on a contentious border exchange in which 24 Pakistani soldiers died, dealing a fresh blow to US hopes of reviving a… Read More ›

• Myths About Socialism: Common Arguments Defeated

  By The Red Phoenix on January 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’ve expressed interest in socialism at some point in your life, you’ve probably had an encounter ( it can be at a family dinner, at school, the break room at work or any number of other examples) that goes… Read More ›

• India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President

  By The Red Phoenix on January 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with lead pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly. The workers were enraged enough to kill Regency’s president K. C. Chandrashekhar after… Read More ›

• Opposition rally organizers jailed in Kazakhstan

  By The Red Phoenix on January 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Some 300 opposition activists staged a rare rally in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Saturday to protest recent elections and the violent suppression of a group of oil workers. Hours later, speakers at… Read More ›

• NYPD Admits Using Anti-Muslim Film for Training Nearly 1,500 Officers

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

  

  Film Accuses All Muslims of Plotting to Overthrow US by Jason Ditz, January 24, 2012 Last year, the New York Police Dept. was caught in an ugly scandal when the Village Voice reported it showed a 72-minute film titled The… Read More ›