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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 Orlando, FL.

• Editorial: Get off that Bandwagon

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By George Bialek. If you’re a Facebook user chances are you’ve probably seen a popular “meme” regarding Iceland. It’s the one that supposedly quotes some Icelandic politician who was asked something like “Why has Iceland managed to do so well… Read More ›

• On this day sixty-nine years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Red Army liberators recall shock of Auschwitz By Natalia Reiter With additional reporting by Ron Popeski Dated: 26 Jan 2005 KRAKOW, Poland, Jan 26 (Reuters) — When 60 years ago Anatoly Shapiro commanded his Red Army troops to secure a… Read More ›

• Not My War

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By Svitlana Tsiberganova Dear activists of Maidan, I understand that you have your mobilization, resistance, and your own war. But every one of your posts and reposts calling “all real men to come out” I associate with a call, voiced from… Read More ›

• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: Ariel Sharon, Butcher of Beirut, Sabra and Shatila Dead

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 11, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

• Islam, Terrorism and Hypocrisy: U.S. Imperialism in the Muslim World

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• The Crimes of Ariel Sharon

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• US the biggest threat to world peace in 2013 – poll

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Lenin Statue Reinstated Hours After Being Toppled by Ukraine Fascists

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Poll: Afghanistan war most unpopular in U.S. history

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Reported sexual assaults in US military jumped by 50% in 2013

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Pussy Riot says Oligarch Khodorkovsky should replace Putin as president

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Wounded Knee Anniversary: A family remembers

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• China planning 110,000-ton ‘super aircraft carrier’ to rival US naval power

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• 47,000 Migrants Killed during Transit through Mexico in the last Six Years

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›