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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.

• Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Inside Store and Then Walk Out

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

  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, November 2, 2012 CONTACT: Jorge Amaro, 202-412 4998, jamaro(at)ufcw.org Joining Nationwide Strikes at Nation’s Largest Retailer, Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Sit-In inside Store, Then Walk Off the Job As Walmart Supercenter Holds Grand Re-Opening, Workers and… Read More ›

• How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

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

  

  By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›

• Is Housing About to Tank?

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

  

  You Call It Recovery, I Call It Bollocks by MIKE WHITNEY Well, what do you know; mortgage applications have fallen off a cliff. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) loan applications decreased by 12 percent on a seasonally adjusted… Read More ›

• Iraq, Afghanistan War Wounded Pass 50,000

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

  

  More than 50,000 Americans have been combat-wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001, a grim measure of the cost of more than a decade of war. According to Defense Department accounting, the number of wounded reached 50,010 on Thursday. The… Read More ›

• Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists

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

  

  Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.” The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the… Read More ›

• 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 ›