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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.

• Racist who wanted to create whites-only town proven to be of African descent

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A white supremacist’s mission to turn a small North Dakota town into an all-white enclave took an unexpected turn when a DNA test proved his bloodline included Sub-Saharan African lineage. The 62-year-old Craig Cobb recently appeared on NBC Universal’s “The… Read More ›

• Drop the Charges against Rasmea Odeh!

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  To bring down a building, one attacks the pillars – it is the same in a community. Today (Nov. 13), Rasmea Odeh, a pillar of the Palestinian-American community of Chicago will be arraigned in the U.S. District Court, 231 W… Read More ›

• Filipino communists step up typhoon relief efforts, condemns Aquino regime’s slow response

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Statement by Communist Party of the Philippines Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 11 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Carry out all-out mobilization for relief support to disaster victims The Communist Party of… Read More ›

• 10,000 feared killed in Philippines by super typhoon Haiyan

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  An estimated 10,000 people might have been killed in the central Philippine province of Leyte alone, which was almost completely destroyed by the powerful typhoon Haiyan, local authorities said. The typhoon has devastated up to 80 percent of the Leyte… Read More ›

• There is no Palestinian issue for Syrian rebels

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Palestinian issue has been uniting all Muslims for 65 years. Syrian rebels succeeded in their mission – they made the world forget about the Palestinian issue. The militants pulled Palestinians out of refugee camps; they are killing them or… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Netanyahu, Abbas and the “peace talks”

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Video: Alleged Walkie-Talkie Conversation between Al Qaeda’s ISIL and FSA

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Alleged Walkie-Talkie Conversation between Members of al-Qaeda’s ISIL and FSA in Aleppo This recent footage from Aleppo showing an alleged conversation taking place via a walkie-talkie between militants from al-Qaeda’s “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) and supposed… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Saudi women defy driving ban

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Venezuela’s Maduro Goes on the “Offensive” With Package of Economic Reforms

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By RYAN MALLETT-OUTTRIM Merida, 7th November 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has announced a slew of policy reforms aimed at combating speculation and hoarding, along with the creation of new government institutions to regulate trade and oversee foreign currency exchange…. Read More ›

• Karl Marx Is the World’s Most Influential Scholar

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  How do you judge an academic? Can you compare scholars from different fields on equal footing? Whose work had the bigger impact down field, Albert Einstein or Ada Lovelace? These seem like impossible questions to answer, but as reported by Nature, a team… Read More ›

• Black Woman Shot to Death for Asking for Help in a White Neighborhood

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Last Saturday morning at around 2:30am 19-year-old Renisha McBride got into a car accident in Dearborn Heights, a predominately white Detroit suburb. Because her cell phone battery was dead, she went to nearby home for assistance. That might seem like the reasonable… Read More ›

• US military doctors participate in torture of detainees, report says

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  An independent report has charged that medical personnel, working under the direction of the Department of Defense and CIA in military defense facilities, violated medical ethics by participating in the torture of detainees. The services provided by American doctors and… Read More ›

• South Korea moves to ban pro-North party

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A far left-wing South Korean political party could be banned from contesting elections for its pro-North Korean stance in a move critics say smacks of President Park Geun-hye’s father’s suppression of democracy during his long stay in power. The Unified… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: 30 million people are slaves, half in India

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Renamo crisis hits cross-border traders

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  ZIMBABWEAN cross-border traders doing business in Mozambique have started counting their losses as they are no longer able to travel to the neighbouring country following the recent political clashes between Renamo insurgents and government troops. JOHN NYASHANU STAFF REPORTER In… Read More ›