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• Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, Washington

  By The Red Phoenix on January 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, Washington ILWU rank and file, Occupies in Longview, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, LA and other West Coast Occupies are organizing to blockade a grain ship coming to Longview. This ship is intended to load scab… Read More ›

• Scientists Conclude UN Soldiers Brought Cholera to Haiti

  By The Red Phoenix on January 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and RYM MOMTAZ Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera — a super bug — into the Western Hemisphere for the first time.  The vicious form of… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Boiling point of Persian Gulf

  By The Red Phoenix on January 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Marine Corps probe after video emerges showing American troops ‘urinating on dead Afghan bodies’

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

  

  The anonymous person who put it online wrote, ‘Scout sniper team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune peeing on dead talibans’ By Daniel Bates Last updated at 9:15 PM on 11th January 2012 The U.S. Marine… Read More ›

• Marines: Video shows troops urinating on corpses

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

  Editor’s note: This post contains language and imagery that some might find offensive. By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News A video posted on YouTube shows four combat Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead men in Afghanistan,… Read More ›

• Obama to Send US Troops to South Sudan

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

  

  Troops Sent Over ‘Recent Outbreaks of Violence’ by Jason Ditz, January 10, 2012 Citing recent ethnic violence and with the apparent certainty that every nation on the planet needs at least a few US boots on the ground, President Obama… Read More ›

• ILWU Pres. McEllrath: ‘Prepare to take action when EGT vessel arrives’

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

  

  Click here to download a pdf of this letter. January 3, 2012 To: All Longshore, Clerk, and Walking Boss/Foreman Locals Brothers and Sisters: We are currently engaged in a labor dispute with one of our employers, EGT, in the Pacific… Read More ›

• N.C. sterilization panel: Victims deserve $50K

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

  

  RALEIGH, N.C. – People sterilized against their will under a discredited North Carolina state program should each be paid $50,000, a task force voted Tuesday, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of a once-common public… Read More ›

• Pope: Gay marriage a threat to humanity’s future

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

  

  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY | Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:25pm EST (Reuters) – Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined “the future of humanity itself.” The pope made… Read More ›

• Retrospect – Obama’s Africa Speech: Lies, Hypocrisy, and a Prescription for Continued African Dependence

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

  

  Q. Is Obama better than Bush? A. It depends how you like your imperialism – with a white face or a black one. By Stephen Gowans US president Barack Obama’s speech at Accra, Ghana on July 11, 2009 was equal… Read More ›

• The Massacre Everyone Ignored: Up to 70 Striking Oil Workers Killed in Kazakhstan by US-Supported Dictator

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

  

  By Mark Ames With violence and government crackdowns making headlines from so many familiar parts of the world, there’s hardly been a peep in the media about the biggest and ugliest massacre of all: Last Friday in Kazakhstan, riot police… Read More ›

• Bagram “worse than Guantanamo,” says rights attorney

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

  

  Some surprisingly good CBS reporting on Bagram Airbase as the new legal black hole, secret prison of the Obama administration: Begram: the Other Guantanamo There are now 3,000 detainees in Bagram, up from 1,700 since June (!) and five times… Read More ›

• Cultural Genocide in Lake County, CA

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

  

  “There was no civilization before private property” by WILL PARRISH As you read these words, one of the Northern California East Bay Area’s wealthiest men is getting away with an act of cultural genocide. Construction crews employed by wireless technology… Read More ›

• Holocaust Survivors Blast Nazi Garb at Protest

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

  

  By ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM January 1, 2012 (AP) Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism… Read More ›

• Paul pressed to explain AIDS claims

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

  

  By JOSH BOAK Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul took heat on “Fox News Sunday” for claims made in his 1987 book “Freedom Under Siege” that AIDS patients victimize society and the sexually harassed share in some of the blame for… Read More ›