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• Nearly 300 Nike Clothing Makers Fired After Strikes in Cambodia

  By The Red Phoenix on June 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  PHNOM PENH, June 11 (Reuters) – Nearly 300 Cambodian garment workers who produce clothing for U.S sportswear company Nike have been dismissed for taking part in strikes seeking higher pay that turned violent, according to their union and dismissal notices…. Read More ›

• Video: FSA Commander – We will not fight Israel if they attack Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on June 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

• Detroit cop who killed 7-year-old girl walks free after mistrial

  By The Red Phoenix on June 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Stephen C. Webster Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley was spared a felony conviction on Tuesday over the killing of a 7-year-old girl after a jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared, according to Detroit Free Press. Weekley shot and killed Aiyana… Read More ›

• Group That Had Aimed To “Change” Gays To Shut Down, Leader Also Offered Apology

  By The Red Phoenix on June 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  “Exodus International, the oldest and largest Christian ministry dealing with faith and homosexuality, issued an apology to the gay community for years of undue suffering and judgment at the hands of the organization and the Church as a whole,” the… Read More ›

• Largest Mass Protests in Decades Continue in Brazil

  By The Red Phoenix on June 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brasilia and other cities. Protests initially began last week following a government announcement of an… Read More ›

• 70 Percent of Americans ‘Emotionally Disconnected’ at Work

  By The Red Phoenix on June 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Nearly one in five hates work so much they sabotage their employers.   By Steven Rosenfeld If you thought that Americans who kept their jobs during the Great Recession were glad to be working, you would be dead wrong. According to… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: Brazil Protests Illustrated

  By The Red Phoenix on June 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Supreme Court Bans Protests On Its Grounds

  By The Red Phoenix on June 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By FREDERIC J. FROMMER WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has come up with a new regulation banning demonstrations on its grounds, two days after a broader anti-demonstration law was declared unconstitutional. The regulation bans activities on the court’s grounds or… Read More ›

• Private sector plays greater role in China’s economy

  By The Red Phoenix on June 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BEIJING, Dec. 26 — The weight of private enterprises in the overall economy is on the rise and that of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the decline, Ma Jiantang, minister of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on Friday. The number… Read More ›

• Morsi says Egypt cuts all ties with Damascus, calls for Syria no-fly zone

  By The Red Phoenix on June 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Egypt has decided to cut all ties with Syria, close the embassy in Cairo and withdraw the Egyptian envoy from Damascus, said Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. He also urged the international powers to impose a no-fly zone over Syria. “We… Read More ›

• 100-Year-Old General: We Razed Arab Villages, So What?

  By The Red Phoenix on June 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak: If we hadn’t done it, there would be a million more Arabs and there would be no Israel. By Gil Ronen Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak is celebrating his hundredth birthday. Pundak was the commander… Read More ›

• Worth a Thousand Words: Pacifists protect Police Station in Istanbul

  By The Red Phoenix on June 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

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• Past undetected: Nazi commander found living in US since 1949

  By The Red Phoenix on June 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A top commander of a Nazi SS-led hit squad and officer in an SS Division, accused of burning villages to the ground during World War II, has been living in Minnesota since 1949 after tricking US immigration officials. Michael Karkoc… Read More ›

• Moderate cleric Rouhani elected president of Iran – Interior Minister

  By The Red Phoenix on June 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran’s presidential election with just over 50 percent of votes, state TV reported. 72 percent of the 50 million Iranians turned out to vote, said Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar. The Saturday news was reported… Read More ›

• US to give military support to Syrian rebels as ‘red line’ crossed

  By The Red Phoenix on June 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  After concluding that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the country’s insurgency, thus crossing a ‘red line,’ the Obama administration has decided to start sending arms to anti-Assad rebels for the first time, officials say. The Obama administration… Read More ›