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June Vass (she/her) is the editor-in-chief of the Red Phoenix, the Director of the Information Bureau of the American Party of Labor, and a member of the National Writers Union. She is based in Los Angeles, CA.
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Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World
by Douglas Hill Ever since 9/11, the U.S. government has launched the “War on Terror,” and enacted a virtual avalanche of legislation aimed at containing the threat of Islamic terrorism. Much of this legislation legitimizes the ethnic profiling of people… Read More ›
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The Crimes of Ariel Sharon
by Alexander Cockburn And Jeffrey St. Clair Some incorrigible optimists have suggested that only a right-wing extremist of the notoriety of Likud leader Ariel Sharon will have the credentials to broker any sort of lasting settlement with the Palestinians. Maybe… Read More ›
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US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll
The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece…. Read More ›
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Lenin Statue Reinstated Hours After Being Toppled by Ukraine Fascists
KIEV, December 30 (RIA Novosti) – A statue to Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was toppled in the central Ukrainian town of Vatutino on Sunday night only to be put back in place several hours later, the UNIAN news agency… Read More ›
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Poll: Afghanistan war most unpopular in U.S. history
Support for the war in Afghanistan has dipped below 20%, according to a new national poll, making the country’s longest military conflict arguably its most unpopular one as well. The CNN/ORC International survey released Monday also indicates that a majority… Read More ›
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Reported sexual assaults in US military jumped by 50% in 2013
Reported sexual assaults in the US military increased by over 50 percent in 2013, new data reveals. The boost punctuates a year filled with damning disclosures of a culture that has failed to protect the enlisted from systemic levels of… Read More ›
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Pussy Riot says Oligarch Khodorkovsky should replace Putin as president
Moscow (AFP) – The freed members of the Pussy Riot punk band said Friday they still wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin out of power and would like ex-tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to replace him. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alyokhina, 25,… Read More ›
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Wounded Knee Anniversary: A family remembers
by JOKAY DOWELL, Oklahoma Native Times Magazine Among Indigenous activist circles it is said that many generations ago ancestors who experienced the loss of life, land, culture and language had prayed for the coming generations to take up their causes… Read More ›
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China planning 110,000-ton ‘super aircraft carrier’ to rival US naval power
Following Washington’s move to increase its military footprint in Asia, China has declared it is building a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of a size to compete with the mightiest in the US naval fleet. Chinese website qianzhan.com, citing top sources in… Read More ›
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47,000 Migrants Killed during Transit through Mexico in the last Six Years
More than 47.000 migrants, travelling through Mexico, have died during the last six years. The staggering number of lost lives has been reported by the Mexican Institute for Women in Migration. The Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMI) is a… Read More ›
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Indonesia and Suharto: how imperialism secures neo-colonies in blood
In his book “The Polical Economy of Growth”, Paul Baran reminds us that from the standpoint of the bourgeoisie, feudalism provided wastefulness because of its socioeconomic organization and parasitic functionaries and institutions, while from the standpoint of the feudalist, essential,… Read More ›
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I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. —By Mac McClelland “DON’T TAKE ANYTHING that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at… Read More ›
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Majority in former Soviet states believe breakup was harmful mistake – poll
More than two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed a majority of citizens in the independent states believe that the split brought nothing but harm, according to a new Gallup poll. Gallup a research-based, global performance-management consulting company released a… Read More ›
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Maoist Insurgency Spreads to Over 40% of India. Mass Poverty and Delhi’s Embrace of Corporate Neoliberalism Fuels Social Uprising
By Asad Ismi On May 25, 2013, Maoist insurgents in the Indian state of Chattisgarh wiped out almost the entire leadership of the Congress Party in that state by killing 28 of its members in an ambush. The Congress Party forms… Read More ›
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Numsa withdraws support for ANC in South Africa
South Africa’s biggest trade union has announced that it is withdrawing its support for the ANC ahead of next year’s election – a big blow to the governing party. The 330,000-member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said… Read More ›
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