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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.

• Jean-Claude Brizard, Chicago Schools CEO, Was Nearly Invisible During Teachers Strike

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  CHICAGO — When teachers on strike took to the Chicago streets for nine days this month, news cameras followed the union president, the head of the school board and the mayor. The Chicago Teachers Union and city representatives would meet… Read More ›

• Video: General Wesley Clark explains US military plans to attack Iran & other countries

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

• US stops 20 Iran officials attending UN assembly: Report

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  DUBAI: The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week’s United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the… Read More ›

• “I’ve never heard of anything so horrific”: MSU Student Brutally Attacked by Neo-Nazis

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A 19-year-old Michigan State University student is recovering at home in Oakland County today after surgery overnight for a broken jaw his family says stems from a brutal hate crime. Police, however, said it did not appear to be a… Read More ›

• America’s hidden unemployed: too discouraged to count

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

  

  By Lucia Mutikani (Reuters) – When Daniel McCune graduated from college three years ago, he was optimistic his good grades would earn him a job as an intelligence analyst with the government. With a Bachelor of Science degree from Liberty… Read More ›

• Editorial: Pussy Riot and the Media Bandwagon

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By George Bialek “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken As an American living in Moscow I have often been a witness to concrete examples of how the Western… Read More ›

• Islamist Libyan Rebels Kill US Ambassador to Libya in Attack on US Consulate

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

  

  By Matt Spetalnick and Hadeel Al Shalchi (Reuters) – President Barack Obama branded the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans an “outrageous attack” on Wednesday and vowed to track down the perpetrators, while ordering a… Read More ›

• Watching Syria, remembering Nicaragua

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Richard Becker History shows U.S. viciously attacks—not supports—real revolutions Sandinistas enter Managua, July 19, 1979 On July 18, a huge bomb blast killed or critically wounded several top Syrian security officials. While the “Free Syrian Army,” claimed credit, the… Read More ›

• We are Women Against Rape but we do not want Julian Assange extradited

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

  

  For decades we have campaigned to get rapists caught, charged and convicted. But the pursuit of Assange is political by Katrin Axelsson and Lisa Longstaff When Julian Assange was first arrested, we were struck by the unusual zeal with which… Read More ›

• The modern US army: unfit for service?

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is more like a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit by Matt Kennard My journey into the dark underworld of the US military… Read More ›

• Rev. Moon, religious and political figure, dies in South Korea at 92

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass… Read More ›

• New study says the Cheonan was sunk by mine, not North Korean torpedo

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

  

  Scientific analysis shows signs of a powerful underwater explosion By Oh Cheol-woo, science correspondent An article has been published in an international academic journal arguing that the explosion that sank the South Korean Cheonan warship in March 2010 may not… Read More ›

• Slap on the Wrist for Troops in Corpse Urination Video

  By Editor-in-Chief on August 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Common Dreams staff Three of the Marines involved in the video that surfaced in January of soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans have received “nonjudicial punishment” on Monday for their roles in the incident. Because they received “nonjudicial punishment,”… Read More ›

• 80 Percent of Public Schools Have Contracts With Coke or Pepsi

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

  

  Schools That Limit Junk Food and Soda on Campus Have Lower Obesity Rates By Tom Philpott Is your kid’s public school a Coke school or a Pepsi school? If you don’t know what I mean, consider yourself lucky. Starting in… Read More ›

• “Iran and Everything Else” by Michael Parenti

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

  

  Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things… Read More ›