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Police Cause Miscarriage After Beating/Pepper Spray at Occupy Seatle
AN OCCUPY protester claims she suffered a miscarriage after police allegedly used pepper spray on her and kicked her in the stomach. Jennifer Fox, 19, who says she was two months pregnant, told weekly newspaper The Stranger that she attacked… Read More ›
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Israel Shuts Down “All for Peace” Radio Station
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station’s operators said on Sunday. The station and other critics said the move was politically motivated, and part of a broader assault on… Read More ›
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Editorial: Newt Gingrich’s child labor plan cleans up
Fire janitors so that school kids can learn the joy of a worthwhile job? Wow, the guy’s a one-man, walking thinktank! Who doesn’t love Newt Gingrich’s idea to fire school janitors and replace them with actual school children? I mean,… Read More ›
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Worth A Thousand Words: Cop Pepper-sprays Sitting Protesters
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Videos: National Day of Action in Chicago
On November 17th, 2011, there was a rally at the Thompson Center as part of the National Day of Action in Chicago. Pre-arranged speeches took place for a half an hour, after which the demonstration marched to a LaSalle Street… Read More ›
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Myths About Socialism: Under Socialism, is Everyone Equal?
This is one of the most common myths about socialism, often trotted out to explain why socialism “doesn’t work,” how it goes against “human nature,” that there is a lack of incentive to work, and so on. As is the… Read More ›
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Judge upholds eviction of Wall St. protesters
(Reuters) – A judge upheld New York City’s right to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters from a park on Tuesday after baton-wielding police in riot gear broke up a two-month-old demonstration against economic inequality. Protesters who had been kicked out… Read More ›
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Department of Justice Court Filing: Alabama’s Immigration Law is Unconstitutional
ATLANTA (CNN) — Alabama’s immigration law is unconstitutional and aims to threaten “the most basic human needs,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing. “The Constitution leaves no room for such a state immigration-enforcement scheme,” the department… Read More ›
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Palestinian ‘freedom riders’ stopped at Israel’s separation wall
Drawing parallels between Israeli policies in the West Bank and the laws in the Jim Crow American South, Palestinian activists emulating the ‘freedom riders’ of 1961 attempted to ride into Jerusalem on an Israeli bus today. Decked-out in T-shirts bearing… Read More ›
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Occupy Wall Street: NYPD attempt media blackout at Zuccotti Park
Journalists report aggressive treatment as media blocked from protest camp during surprise police raid New York police attempted to impose a media blackout as they cleared Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park late last night. As police swooped on… Read More ›
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Political Cartoon: Israeli-occupied territory of the United Nations
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Neo-Nazi cell shines light on far-right extremism in Germany
Neo-Nazi bank robbers found dead last week are suspected in Germany’s worst case of racially motivated killings. Their confessional tape reveals a current of right-wing extremism that politicians have long denied. Ten days ago, police in the town of Eisenach… Read More ›
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Israeli Mossad linked to Iran military blast
Israeli media report claims the Mossad was behind ‘huge blast’ at Bid Ganeh base that killed leading Iranian missile researcher A series of news reports linking Israel’s intelligence agency the Mossad to a blast at a military facility in Iran,… Read More ›
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Occupy Oakland to march in support of UC Berkeley’s general strike
Looking to support Occupy Cal and its “fight against police brutality,” Occupy Oakland is planning to march to UC Berkeley to join the campus general strike Tuesday. “We must recognize that the very same OPD officers and Sheriffs who attacked… Read More ›
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The 147 Companies That Control Everything
Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 