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• Political Cartoon: One Year Later, Remember the Martyrs of Egypt ‘s Jan. 25th Revolution

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

  

• Former U.S.-Backed Guatemalan Dictator Faces Genocide Trial

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

  

  By Mariano Castillo, CNN (CNN) — A Guatemalan judge has ordered the country’s former dictator to stand trial on charges that he was responsible for atrocities committed during his rule. Efrain Rios Montt will remain under house arrest while prosecutors… Read More ›

• Acta protests break out as EU states sign up to treaty

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

  

  MEPs of 21 EU states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement The UK and 21 other European Union member states on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement treaty called Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), sparking… Read More ›

• Cuba Announces Release of the World’s First Lung Cancer Vaccine

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

  

  HAVANA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — Cuban medical authorities have launched the sales of the world’s first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, local officials said on Tuesday. The CimaVax-EGF vaccine, as a result of a 25-year research into diseases related to… Read More ›

• SOPA’s big brother signed by EU nations amid widespread protests

  By The Red Phoenix on January 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Polish citizens take to the streets in protest at ACTA By Jennifer Baker IDG News Service – The European Union signed up to the controversial Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Thursday despite widespread opposition, particularly in Poland, where people… Read More ›

• Aid group quits Libyan prisons over torture

  By The Red Phoenix on January 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (CBS/AP) BENGHAZI, Libya – The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said detainees are being tortured and denied urgent medical care. Additionally, Amnesty… Read More ›

• Cuba registers world’s first lung cancer vaccine

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

  

  South Journal, HAVANA—Cuba registered the first therapeutic vaccine in the world against advanced lung cancer. Over 1 000 patients have been administered the vaccine known as CIMAVAX-EGF. Specialist Gisela Gonzalez, leader of the project at the Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center,… Read More ›

• CimaVax-EGF: Cuba Announces Release Of First Lung Cancer Vaccine

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

  

  Laura Hibbard After 25 years of research, Cuban officials have begun production on a vaccine for lung cancer, China’s Xinhuanet reported. The vaccine, or CimaVax-EGF, works through the active drug ingredient, which is based on “a protein we all have… Read More ›

• Gadhafi Loyalists ‘Retake’ Town of Bani Walid

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

  

  Four Killed as Old Regime’s Flag Is Raised in Town by Jason Ditz, January 23, 2012 Major fighting has broken out in the Libyan town of Bani Walid this weekend, and reports indicate at least in the near term, that… Read More ›

• Same-sex marriage has the votes to pass in Washington

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

  

  Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen announced support on Monday C.R. Douglas, Q13 Fox News political analyst SEATTLE—Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen announced on Monday that she would support Senate Bill 6239 to allow same-sex marriage. Haugen, who had previously been undecided, gives… Read More ›

• French Senate passes Armenian genocide law

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

  

  The French Senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it a criminal offence to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I. Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died in 1915-16 as… Read More ›

• Texana Hollis, Evicted 101-Year-Old Detroit Woman, Can’t Go Home

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

  

  (AP) DETROIT — The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can’t return because the building’s unsanitary and unsafe. Texana Hollis was evicted Sept. 12 and her… Read More ›

• Pro-Gaddafi forces capture Bani Walid, 5 NTC troops killed – report

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

  

  Fighters loyal to late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have clashed with revolutionary forces in the former-regime stronghold of Bani Walid, taking control of the city in the process. The head of Libya’s National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdel Jalil today warned… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Internet Wars just begun! Struggle against Sopa/Pipa is NOT over!

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

  

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• Political Cartoon: Warning! SOPA is not Dead Yet!

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

  

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