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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.

• Report: huge increase in US troops in South Korea

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Both USFK and SK Ministry of National Defense dispute figures that show troop levels far above the agreed upon 28,500 By Kim Kyu-won and Gil Yun-hyung, staff reporters USFK troop levels, which have remained consistently in the 26,000 to 29,000… Read More ›

• Huge Drop in Workers at City-Sized US Embassy in Baghdad

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year by Jason Ditz A Vatican-sized fortress along the Tigris River, the US Embassy to Iraq is the stuff of legends, a $730 million testament to the runaway overspending of the occupation era. Ten years after… Read More ›

• Syrian Rebels Angry Over US Aid: ‘Only Thing We Want Is Weapons’

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

  Non-Lethal Aid Doesn’t Conquer Countries, Gen. Idris Insists by Jason Ditz General Salim Idris, the Chief of Staff of the Syrian rebels’ Supreme Military Council, reacted with anger toward the US announcement of additional aid for his forces, insisting that the promise… Read More ›

• Autopsy: Palestinian Prisoner Died of ‘Extreme Torture’ in Israeli Custody

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Arafat Jaradat, a father of a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, worked as a gas station attendant and his wife, Dalal, is pregnant. Craig Brown, staff writer An autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two,… Read More ›

• British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jasper Copping Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule. But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach… Read More ›

• Rod Richardson: the mystery of the protester who was not who he claimed

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

  

  Paul Lewis and Rob Evans The mother of the real Rod Richardson, who died at two days old, fears an officer assumed his identity to pose as an activist Rod Richardson celebrated his 29th birthday in style on 5 January 2002. After… Read More ›

• CIA Admits Full Monitoring of Facebook and Other Social Networks

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

  

  February 8, 2013 – Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows. But… Read More ›

• South Korea warns of pre-emptive strike against North over nuclear tests

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

  Republic of Korea out AFP Photo / Dong-A Ilbo South Korea will launch a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang if the antagonist to its north moves to test a nuclear weapon. Seoul said a first strike would be preferable to North… Read More ›

• REPORT: Prominent Conservative Leader Once Ran White Supremacist Group

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  James B. Taylor By Josh Israel A new report by Mother Jones reveals that James B. Taylor, a prominent conservative movement leader and board member for the Young America’s Foundation, once served as vice president of a white supremacist group. Taylor’s bio notes that he… Read More ›

• The Right-to-Exploit

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

  

  by ROBERT HANHAM Right-to-Work Laws as Weapons of Class War No sooner had Michigan’s ‘right-to-work’ (RTW) law passed, than supporters were out in force crowing about their success and the prospect of other states falling victim. Non-RTW states Alaska, Illinois,… Read More ›

• Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer’s 1973 Murder After Military Coup

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By PASCALE BONNEFOY SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed days after the 1973 military coup in a stadium that… Read More ›

• US Marine reduced to lower rank and fined for urinating on dead Afghans

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A US Marine has had his rank reduced and been fined $500 fine for urinating on corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan after pleading guilty at a special court martial in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Staff Sgt Joseph W. Chamblin… Read More ›

• Top Conservative Publication: Shooting Occurred Because Women Ran The School

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  If there were fewer women and more “male aggression” in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre there never would have taken place, according to a contribution to a leading conservative magazine. National Review, whose in-house editorial suggested Newtown was the price… Read More ›

• Army Seeking Death Penalty in Massacre of 16 Afghans

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  By KIRK JOHNSON SEATTLE — The United States Army will seek the death penalty against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Sergeant Bales’s court-martial will consider 16 counts of premeditated murder, six… Read More ›

• EU to consider ‘all options’ to aid rebels as Syria asks for humanitarian help

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  EU leaders have called on their foreign ministers to consider all options to support the Syrian opposition and put pressure on the Syrian leadership. It comes as the Syrian FM blames sanctions for the country’s humanitarian crisis, asking for UN… Read More ›