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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.

• Rebels-in-waiting: The children as young as SEVEN being trained to fight on the front lines against Gaddafi

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  With smiles on their faces, these young boys could be playing soldiers with their friends. But the youngsters are in fact helping rebel fighters in Libya to overcome Colonel Gaddafi’s troops as the bitter civil war rumbles on. Boys as… Read More ›

• It’s Not “Corporatism,” It’s Not “Crony Capitalism,” It’s Capitalism!

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Chances are if you are reading this, you have spent a fair amount of time discussing the recent “Occupation” demonstrations which have sprung up all around the country. Anyone with a basic familiarity with the protests is aware that the… Read More ›

• Occupy Wall Street shows muscle and prepares for next step, raising $300K plus other donations

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK — The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space loaded with donated supplies in lower Manhattan. It stared down city officials to hang on to its makeshift headquarters, showed its muscle Saturday… Read More ›

• Review of “The Great Dictator”

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

  

  Plot Summary The Great Dictator, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, who also stars, is a compelling movie. The film begins in a setting that resembles World War I. Charlie Chaplin plays a private in the Tomainian military, and also… Read More ›

• Rick Perry ‘Niggerhead’ Rock: Is GOP Candidate Racially Insensitive?

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

  

  WASHINGTON — When Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) took friends, fellow legislators or campaign donors to his hunting camp, they passed the word “Niggerhead” painted on a rock. As the Washington Post reported Saturday, “Niggerhead” stood for the long-ago name of… Read More ›

• Privately-Owned CCA-Run Prison Remains Idaho’s most Violent Lockup

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

  

  (AP) BOISE, Idaho — In the last four years, Idaho’s largest privately run prison has faced federal lawsuits, widespread public scrutiny, increased state oversight, changes in upper management and even an ongoing FBI investigation. Yet the Corrections Corp. of America-run… Read More ›

• From Cheney to Perry: Racist Hunting Clubs

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 12, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The flap over the racist name of the hunting lodge that Texas Governor Rick Perry’s family leased is not the first time hunting and racism have conspired to tar a politician. In 2007, a New York Daily News photographer spotted… Read More ›

• Immigrant rights groups want radio hosts John and Ken off the air

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

  

  Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a longtime immigrant rights activist, is used to being called to task for his views. But when radio hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou recently gave out his cellphone number on the air in a campaign against the… Read More ›

• American Heroes: John Brown

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  “Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked,… Read More ›

• HPV Vaccine: The Science Behind The Controversy

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by Richard Knox The first vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer, came out five years ago. But now it has become a hot political topic, thanks to a Republican presidential debate in which candidate Michele Bachmann… Read More ›

• Chemical Warfare At Its Worst

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Harrowing Legacy of Agent Orange by N.D. JAYAPRAKASH The shocking images of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York is well-etched in the minds of almost everyone who had access to a TV set. Similarly,… Read More ›

• Longshoremen storm Washington State Port

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

  

  LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. Six… Read More ›

• We Do the Work

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by DAVID MACARAY Whenever Labor Day rolls around I get filled with subversive thoughts about the unfairness of it all. While it’s the workers who keep the operation going, it’s management who gets the credit. It’s management who gets the… Read More ›

• WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, air strike called in to cover up evidence

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike… Read More ›

• How US firms profited from torture flights

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies The scale of the CIA’s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out… Read More ›