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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.

• How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored. Ed Vulliamy The… Read More ›

• An Open Letter from America’s Port Truck Drivers on Occupy the Ports

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  We are the front-line workers who haul container rigs full of imported and exported goods to and from the docks and warehouses every day. We have been elected by committees of our co-workers at the Ports of Los Angeles, Long… Read More ›

• Romney got permission to destroy 150 boxes of records

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON | Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:13pm EST (Reuters) – In the final weeks of Mitt Romney’s term as Massachusetts governor, his office sought and received permission to destroy 150 boxes of paper records of his tenure,… Read More ›

• Us Justice Department Condemns Joe Arpaio for “Unconstitutional Policing”

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Arizona Sheriff’s Office Targeted Latinos, Justice Department Says PHOENIX — In a harshly worded critique of the country’s best-known sheriff, the Justice Department has accused Joe Arpaio of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office of engaging in “unconstitutional policing” by unfairly… Read More ›

• New Bill Allows Military To Detain You Indefinitely

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 13, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s a bad sign when George W. Bush’s defense team thinks that a military bill goes too far in violating your rights. But we’ve got just that with the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act. This bill authorizes the… Read More ›

• Libyan Rebels Imprisoning and Torturing Thousands

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  An estimated 7,000 detainees being held, including women, children and black Africans tortured for skin colour Libya’s former rebels have illegally detained thousands of people, including women and children, according to the United Nations secretary general. Many of the 7,000… Read More ›

• Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by FRANKLIN LAMB On the edge of the Sahel, Niger “Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline”. Unless one was present 5000 years ago when, according to anthropologists, our planets first cultivation of crops began in this then lush, but… Read More ›

• Pizza is a Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable. The United States Congress voted to rebuke new USDA guidelines… Read More ›

• Review of “Genocide and the Second Reich”

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Intro The genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes of Namibia is a part of the history of the German Empires, and imperialism and colonialism in general, which has been forgotten and blanked out. It is not commonly known that… Read More ›

• Police arrest 13 people protesting Alabama’s new immigration law

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Police arrested 13 protesters in Alabama’s capital Tuesday as they demonstrated against the state’s strict new law clamping down on illegal immigrants. About 100 people, most of them Hispanic and college-aged, chanted slogans as they marched in… Read More ›

• Côte d’Ivoire: Two Oligarchic Factions Tear the Country Apart

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Jean Nanga Two “presidents of the Republic”, the outgoing Laurent Koudou Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara, are tearing Ivory Coast apart. Each of the “presidents” relies on real support at the national level. This internal virtually balanced “legitimacy”,… Read More ›

• Soldier found guilty of murdering Afghan Civilians

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) — A military court-martial Thursday found Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses to keep as “souvenirs” and planting weapons to make the men… Read More ›

• Ohio Votes Against Union-Busting Bill

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment. In a political blow to GOP Gov. John Kasich, voters handily… Read More ›

• Poorest poor in US hits new record: 1 in 15 people

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The ranks of America’s poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs… Read More ›

• Israeli Navy raids another aid flotilla to Gaza

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Pro-Palestinian activists say Israeli naval forces are boarding their two ships in international waters, as they were trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Twitter accounts associated with the activist groups running the flotilla said Friday that Israeli forces were… Read More ›