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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.

• Poverty Has Same Effect On The Brain As Constantly Pulling All Nighters

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BY BRYCE COVERT The mental strain of living in poverty and thinking constantly about tight finances can drop a person’s IQ by as much as 13 percent, or about the equivalent of losing a night of sleep, according to a new study…. Read More ›

• What it’s like to spend a night in a North Korean house

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

  

  North Korean homestay offers unparalleled scenery, interaction with locals BY SUSAN AHN A state-owned “homestay” program on North Korea’s Chilbo Mountain invites foreigners to eat, sleep and experience the local lifestyle. Chilbo Mountain is located in the nation’s northernmost North Hamgyong… Read More ›

• Greek neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn opens two new chapters in U.S.

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

  

  By Scott Kaufman The Anti-Defamation League reports that American members of Greece’s neo-Nazi “Golden Dawn” party have created chapters in Los Angeles and in what they’re calling “the Regional League of the Western States USA.” These chapters join the New York chapter founded… Read More ›

• US-Backed Syrian Rebels Behead 24 Syrians, Including Baby

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

  

  Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a mother and a 40-days old infant. Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant… Read More ›

• Israel has 80 nukes, can about triple inventory – report

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

  

  Israel has never confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons, but according to new report by US experts it has at least 80 operative warheads and has enough material to produce up to 190 more. In a report published in… Read More ›

• Arafat poisoned to death: Medical journal

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

  

  A report by one of the world’s leading medical journals has supported earlier findings that Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was poisoned to death nearly a decade ago. According to British journal the Lancet, Arafat was… Read More ›

• PM kidnapping fiasco: ‘Liberated’ Libya is chaos-state

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

  

  Although the detention of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan only lasted a few hours, it was a bold indication of the country’s deepening instability since the civil war that toppled strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.  In the early hours of… Read More ›

• Flesh-Eating Drug Krokodil Is Now Attacking Chicago Suburbs

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

  

  The flesh-eating drug Krokodil made its horrifying United States debut two weeks ago in Arizona, but as many feared, its use has spread: there have now been three reports of the drug in a Chicago suburb. Krokodil, the inexpensive “heroin substitute” that is really… Read More ›

• Trucker Protest Gets Crazier with Lady Who Believes Obama Is Osama

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

  

  by CORD JEFFERSON Can this on-again, off-again trucker protest in D.C. get any fucking weirder than it already is? Yes, because anything is possible with speed. Despite one of the protest’s organizers saying yesterday that the “Truckers Ride for the Constitution”… Read More ›

• The Sarin Mysteries: Syria, Sarin, and Casus Belli

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

  

  by Michael Parenti The Sarin Mysteries Following Kerry, President Obama announced that the situation in Syria had changed irredeemably since August 21. The United States would have to attack. But, on second thought, Obama decided to leave the decision up… Read More ›

• Editorial: Greece On The Verge? Military Special Forces Have 15 Demands… Or Else

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

  

  Greek government authorities are on alert after a union of Greek army reservists of Special Forces issued a statement urging the Greek administration to step down and make way for a national unity government. As Keep Talking Greece notes, the statement on the… Read More ›

• Despite lobbyist claims, piracy not killing media industry, study shows

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

  

  Online piracy is not the scourge of the media industry, as proponents of a crackdown on copyright infringement claim, says a new study. Creative business is doing well, with those embracing the new realities of digital sharing even flourishing. The… Read More ›

• An Obituary for General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013)

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

  

  by CARLOS BORRERO The Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap has died. Throughout what was once known as the Third World as well as among those with revolutionary consciousness in the centers of imperialism, we pay tribute to one of the… Read More ›

• Saudi Black Ops Team Behind Syria Gas Attack: Diplomats

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

  

  The August chemical weapons attack in the Syrian capital’s suburbs was done by a Saudi Arabian black operations team, Russian diplomatic sources have told a Russian news agency. “Based on data from a number of sources a picture can be… Read More ›

• Gov’t Crackdown on Golden Dawn Won’t Defeat Greek Fascism

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

  

  Costas Lapavitsas: The only way to defeat the Golden Dawn and Greek fascism is through popular mobilization that persuades Greek working people and the middle class that democracy and social change can create a just economy –   October 3, 13 JAISAL… Read More ›