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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.

• Herman Wallace Dies Just Days After Being Released from 40+ Years in Solitary

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Democracy Now! has learned from supporters and loved ones of Angola 3 member Herman Wallace that he passed away early this morning, on Friday October 4, just three days after being released from prison in Louisiana after 42 years in… Read More ›

• Flesh-eating Russian opiate drug called ‘krokodil’ arrives in Arizona

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

  

  By David Ferguson A potentially lethal, flesh-eating narcotic compound is catching on in parts of Arizona. Users inject the drug to get high, and the scaly, rotten patches of necrotic flesh it can leave behind have led to the drug… Read More ›

• China’s State Council: ‘Let the market play its own role’

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

  

  By Li Jiabao (China Daily) State Council’s latest move reduces intervention and facilitates business The central government announced on Wednesday it will give up more administrative power to let the market better play its role, streamlining procedures for administrative approvals… Read More ›

• Head of Barilla pasta company: Gays can eat someone else’s pasta

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By David Ferguson Guido Barilla, president of the family-owned Barilla pasta company, said in a radio interview on Wednesday that his company only supports “the traditional family” and that LGBT people “can go eat someone else’s pasta.” According to John Aravosis… Read More ›

• Pope Francis Excommunicates Australian Priest Who Advocated For Gay Marriage and Female Clergy

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Hunter Stuart On the heels of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking remarks faulting the Roman Catholic Church for being overly focused on homosexuality and abortion, news has emerged that the pontiff ordered the excommunication of a priest who advocated for women’s rights and gay marriage…. Read More ›

• The Princess & the Peon: Saudi Royal’s Slave Labor Charges

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

  

  by Eliza Shapiro, Christine Pelisek What pushed a Kenyan servant to flag down a commuter bus to flee the wife of King Abdullah’s grandson? Eliza Shapiro and Christine Pelisek on the shocking human-trafficking case It’s the story of the princess and her… Read More ›

• Photos from Demonstration Against U.S. Intervention in Syria

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

  

• Kurdish fighters kill 83 al-Nusra terrorists in Syria

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

  

  Fighters of Kurdish Popular Committees in Syria have killed at least 83 foreign terrorists affiliated to the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in northern province of al-Raqqa. The clashes broke out in Tal Abyad village on Monday when the al-Nusra terrorists were… Read More ›

• House Votes To Cut Food Stamps By $40 Billion

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives on Thursday approved sweeping reforms to the nation’s food stamp program that would cut some $40 billion in nutrition aid over 10 years and deny benefits to millions starting in 2014. By 217 to 210,… Read More ›

• Germany is the first European country to recognize a third gender

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

  

  by George Dvorsky Starting this November, German parents will be able to select male, female, or “indeterminate” when filling out their newborn’s birth certificate. This means that parents won’t have to label their baby’s gender, thereby allowing those born with intersex… Read More ›

• Reformism: the Gateway to Fascism

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

  

  Communist Party of Chile (Proletarian Action) Eduardo Artes August, 1998 Some factors to explain the defeat of September 11, 1973 and to advance towards victory. On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the fascist military coup of September 11, every… Read More ›

• Allende’s socialist internet

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

  

  Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup The story of Salvador Allende, president of the first ever democratically elected Marxist administration, who died when General Augusto Pinochet overthrew… Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: The Nobel Peace Prize for War

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

  

  Those who own the wealth of nations take care to downplay the immensity of their holdings while emphasizing the supposedly benign features of the socio-economic order over which they preside. With its regiments of lawmakers and opinion-makers, the ruling hierarchs… Read More ›

• Ron Paul To Keynote Anti-Semitic Conference

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

  

  Former Texas congressman Ron Paul will reportedly deliver the keynote address at an anti-Semitic conference in September, in the latest example of the three-time presidential candidate’s close association with extremists. Paul will speak at the Fatima Center’s “Fatima: The Path to Peace”… Read More ›

• How Billionaire ‘Philanthropy’ Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country

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

  

  Much of philanthropy today has become a weapon in the class warfare of the 1 percent. Peter Buffett, the second son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, worries that the state of philanthropy in America “just keeps the existing structure of… Read More ›