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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.

• Privatization Madness

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Now Private Companies Are Collecting Our Taxes by Dave Lindorff I went into my local township building Monday to settle up my local income tax bill. I had filed for an extension of my federal and state taxes back in… Read More ›

• FBI and NYPD claim to have thwarted planned bombing of Federal Reserve in New York City

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi national they say intended to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan this morning, only a few blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood. The man, identified as Quazi… Read More ›

• “Top 10 Ways to Get Away With Rape” list found in Ohio college dorm

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Crimesider Staff (CBS) HAMILTON, Ohio- Miami University is under fire for a list that was discovered posted in bathroom of a freshman co-ed dorm titled, “The Top 10 Ways to Get Away With Rape,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. This… Read More ›

• Billionaire CEO threatens to fire employees if Obama is re-elected

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Eric W. Dolan David Siegel, the founder and CEO of Westgate Resorts, on Monday sent a letter to his 7000 employees warning that the company would be downsized if President Barack Obama was elected to a second term. Siegal,… Read More ›

• America’s deadly double tap drone attacks are ‘killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan’

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Study found war against violent Islamists has become increasingly deadly Researchers blame common tactic now being used – the ‘double-tap’ strike Drone strikes condemned for their ineffectiveness in targeting militants Just one in 50 victims of America’s deadly drone strikes… Read More ›

• ‘No food, no drugs’: Libyan troops siege ex-Gaddafi stronghold

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Armed Libyan forces continue to surround the city of Bani Walid, Libya. As tension between government troops and opposition supporters continues to mount, residents have been left without food and other supplies – and are calling on the UN for… Read More ›

• Wal-Mart Strike: Dozens Of LA Workers Walk Off The Job In First-Ever Strike Against Retailer (PHOTOS)

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Kathleen Miles For the first time in Walmart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores have gone on strike, even though their jobs are not protected by a labor union. More than 70 Los Angeles Walmart workers from nine stores… Read More ›

• The war between the civilized man and the savage

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A provocative ad which debuted last month in San Francisco is making its way to New York subways today. Starting from Monday, September 24, 2012, as the UN General Assembly picks up momentum in New York and heads of states… Read More ›

• Drones: the west’s new terror campaign

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Clive Stafford Smith Living Under Drones, a new report from Stanford and New York universities, was a difficult piece of fieldwork – I was with the law students in Peshawar as they tried to interview victims of the CIA’s… Read More ›

• Dawood National Military Hospital Kabul Scandal Should End War in Afghanistan

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Alex Ellingboe On July 27, the website Buzzfeed.com released graphic photos of the gruesome conditions faced by wounded Afghan soldiers in the U.S. funded Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul. The condition of soldiers at the nation’s premier military… Read More ›

• Riot rage: Athens protesters throw firebombs, police shoot tear gas

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A rally in the Greek capital turned violent when protesters in Syntagma Square lobbed Molotov cocktails at police, who retaliated by firing tear gas at the demonstrators. Security forces also reportedly used flashbang grenades and pepper spray to push protesters… Read More ›

• US use of truth drug revealed

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Natalie O’Brien New evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees, including David Hicks, were drugged involuntarily with a substance that has a long history as a truth serum. Recently declassified US documents revealing medical procedures have shown that… Read More ›

• White House knew Benghazi attack was a terrorist act from day one

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From day one, the Obama administration was aware that the September 11 assault on the US consulate in Benghazi was a pre-planned terrorist attack, despite offering up conflicting explanations in the weeks since. Unnamed officials confirm to Fox News that… Read More ›

• Marines face court-martial for urinating on dead Afghans

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Two of the Marines alleged to have urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters are now facing criminal charges and will be forced to face a court-martial over the incident. Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Chamblin and Staff Sgt. Edward… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: Cartoon Suggestions for Charlie Hebdo – West’s double standard on mocking Muslims, Jews

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

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