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• Gaddafi regime remaining defiant

  By The Red Phoenix on August 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Muammar Gaddafi is still at large as loyalist forces staged a defiant and bloody last stand in the Libyan capital against advancing rebels. In a morale boosting development for the regime, the embattled dictator’s son Saif al-Islam also appeared in… Read More ›

• Eyewitnesses dismiss overnight rebel advances on Tripoli

  By The Red Phoenix on August 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Reports of tracer bullets and explosions over the Libyan capital have sparked rumors of the imminent defeat of Colonel Gaddafi and his regime. However, it transpired that most of these shots were fired by victorious Gaddafi loyalists. On Saturday evening,… Read More ›

• Romney to Quadruple Size of $12M Home

  By The Red Phoenix on August 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Mitt Romney is looking to quadruple the size of his $12 million California home, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The GOP presidential candidate has filed an application with the San Diego government to bulldoze the 3,009-square-foot beachfront house in La… Read More ›

• Gadhafi Sons Captured in Battle in Tripoli: Is the End Near?

  By The Red Phoenix on August 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Conflicting Stories Abound as War Reaches the Capital by Jason Ditz, August 21, 2011 A flurry of reports from myriad sources are detailing what is a growing amount of fighting in and around the Libyan capital city of Tripoli, as… Read More ›

• Ex-Executives Dispute Testimony of Murdoch Son

  By The Red Phoenix on August 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA LONDON — Two former News International executives publicly contradicted James Murdoch’s testimony to a parliamentary committee, saying Thursday that they told him of evidence in 2008 that suggested that phone hacking at one… Read More ›

• ‘Funny’ Anti-Gaddafi Cartoons Reveal Rebel Racism, Anti-Semitism

  By The Red Phoenix on August 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Gaddafi’s eastern Libyan opponents have been flaunting their prejudice in full view of the world’s media with little to no response. In late February, back at the outset of the eastern Libyan rebellion against the rule of Muammar al-Gaddafi, I… Read More ›

• Bachmann says Americans worried about “rise of the Soviet Union”

  By The Red Phoenix on August 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Corbett B. Daly Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann said Thursday there is a growing fear among Americans about an “unstoppable decline” of the United States and a “rise of the Soviet Union.” The Minnesota lawmaker told conservative radio host… Read More ›

• On the Vanguard Party

  By The Red Phoenix on August 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Vanguard? Spend any significant amount of time reading leftist literature, and you’re bound to encounter the term “vanguardist” thrown about. It is usually wielded by anarchists, though they are certainly not alone when it… Read More ›

• Striking Verizon Workers to Lose Medical Benefits

  By The Red Phoenix on August 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Tens of thousands of striking workers from Verizon Communications will lose their medical benefits if they’re still picketing at the end of the month, the telephone service provider said Wednesday. “I can confirm that the 45,000… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Only the Rioters to Blame?

  By The Red Phoenix on August 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• Facing the bombs of America and NATO in the Libya Jamahiriya

  By The Red Phoenix on August 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by Randy Short The public and the people of the world need to know that the corporate media is fabricating a massif of lies concerning the on-the-ground facts of the illegal war against the people of Libya by American and… Read More ›

• U.S. Media Imagine Nonexistent Mass Rape in Libya, But are Blind to Mass Murder of Black Africans

  By The Red Phoenix on August 13, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford U.S. media show no remorse for falsely reporting that Libyan soldiers were using rape as a weapon of war, although Amnesty International has “not found any evidence or a single victim of… Read More ›

• Pacifism: How to Do The Enemy’s Job For Them

  By The Red Phoenix on August 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  “As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that… Read More ›

• Caught on Tape: Police Beat & Taser Fullerton Homeless Man Kelly Thomas to Death

  By The Red Phoenix on August 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  This video, shot on July 5 by a student in Fullerton, California, ostensibly features the sounds of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas crying for his father while being Tased by police officers after he supposedly resisted arrest. Thomas was also beaten so… Read More ›

• 45,000 Verizon Workers Go On Strike

  By The Red Phoenix on August 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  45,000 Walk Out After Negotiations Fail NEW YORK — Forty-five thousand unionized Verizon Communications Inc. workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., went on strike Sunday after negotiations with the telecommunications company over a new labor contract fizzled. The contract expired… Read More ›