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• Former Black Panther Abu-Jamal Spared from Legal Lynching

  By The Red Phoenix on December 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Pennsylvania will no longer pursue execution for radical activist Abu-Jamal in 1981 murder of white police officer One of the most bitter battles over capital punishment in a generation has ended with victory for reformers after prosecutors in Pennsylvania abandoned… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: The US Rescue of Tyrants

  By The Red Phoenix on December 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• City Council Grills Kelly on Police Surveillance of Muslims

  By The Red Phoenix on December 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  City Council members took aim on Thursday at the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, pointedly questioning Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly about the breadth of the force’s undercover efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. At… Read More ›

• Surveys: Health insurance costs shifted to workers, even as premiums surge

  By The Red Phoenix on December 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance continued to escalate this year even as the share of workers getting less generous coverage reached a new high, according to survey data released Tuesday. In 2011, for the first time, half of workers at… Read More ›

• Black Women Report Rape by Rebel Forces in Libya Refugee Camps

  By The Red Phoenix on December 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Local officials, US ambassador shrug off reports The news doesn’t get better for thousands of black Africans trapped in Libya, besieged by racist rebel fighters. In addition to chronic suspicion of being mercenaries for Gadhafi, women in one internal refugee… Read More ›

• Myths About Socialism: is Socialism Utopian?

  By The Red Phoenix on November 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  A Socialist Utopia? Among the many arguments against socialism you will commonly hear, one of the most common is the claim that socialism and Marxism are Utopian. Those making this claim will often readily admit that capitalism is “far from… Read More ›

• Census finds that poverty dominates many school districts

  By The Red Phoenix on November 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – Nearly half of all children in America live in school districts with high levels of poverty, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that pointed to financial traps many public schools are caught in. According to the… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: Egypt’s Revolution Versus Military Rule

  By The Red Phoenix on November 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• The IDF Abuse of Palestinian Children

  By The Red Phoenix on November 27, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Israel’s system of military law for Palestinian children has become a major issue, as our Middle East correspondent John Lyons reported in The Weekend Australian Magazine. Here he continues his investigation of the military court system, looking at the effect… Read More ›

• Egypt protest against military rulers is biggest yet

  By The Red Phoenix on November 27, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Close to 100,000 Egyptians fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square to call for the military generals to cede power to a civilian government. The U.S. also urges the military to step aside. Reporting from Cairo— They came by the tens of thousands,… Read More ›

• Pediatricians Fact-Check Bachmann’s Bashing Of HPV Vaccine

  By The Red Phoenix on November 26, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Now the nation’s pediatricians have waded deep and early into the race for the presidency. In an unusual instance of political fact-checking of a candidate’s statements by physicians themselves, the American Academy of Pediatrics has a tough prescription for Republican… Read More ›

• Disappeared: Thousands of Libyan Blacks Turn Up Missing in Rebel Offensives

  By The Red Phoenix on November 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Entire City Depopulated, Declared ‘Closed Military Area’ Before the Libyan Civil War, Tawarga was an agricultural city of some 10,000, mostly black people, with an economy centering around palm trees and date production. Today, it is entirely empty, and declared… Read More ›

• Rick Perry’s Wife on “America’s Anti-Christian Bias”

  By The Red Phoenix on November 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Gov. Rick Perry’s a longshot for the White House these days, and his wife knows why. It’s his faith. Apparently, there’s nothing the American people hate more than an honest Christian man from a mainline Protestant denomination. A pained-looking Anita… Read More ›

• The American Thanksgiving: Rejoicing In Genocide And White Supremacy

  By The Red Phoenix on November 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Glen Ford 27 November, 2006 Black Agenda Report “Thanksgiving as presently celebrated is an affront to civilization.” Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday,… Read More ›

• Celebrating Genocide!

  By The Red Phoenix on November 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Dan Brook Many people annually get as stuffed as their turkeys in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a quintessentially American holiday, so much so that it is not just a holiday, but really is (as the etymology implies)… Read More ›