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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.

• 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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• 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 ›