What the elites in Washington are conniving.
He’s a virtual dictator who presides over a virtual one-party state controlled by his own ethnic minority. True, he has been elected multiple times, but he relies on violence and intimidation to win “mind-bogglingly one-sided elections.” (1) In the last… Read More ›
By DAVID STRINGER LONDON (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu called Sunday for Tony Blair and George Bush to face prosecution at the International Criminal Court for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq Tutu, the… Read More ›
On Aug. 28, an Israeli court rejected a civil lawsuit against Israeli occupation forces for the 2003 murder of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip, upholding a severely flawed internal Israeli military investigation. Amnesty… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
US financial and military support for the increasingly authoritarian Maliki government has continued despite rights abuses by John Glaser Iraq executed 21 people convicted of terrorism charges on Tuesday, including three women, according to an Iraqi spokesman for the Justice… Read More ›
Two people were ejected from the Republican National Convention when they threw nuts at a black CNN camera woman and said “this is how we feed animals,” the network said Wednesday. “CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at… Read More ›
Drug Factories to Shutter as International Trade Grinds to a Halt by Jason Ditz US and international sanctions against Iran don’t include sanctions on food or medication, which are both explicitly exempted. At least that’s the theory. In practice, the… Read More ›
A group of US soldiers planning to take over their base, blow up targets around the country, wrest control of the government and kill the president – it could be a Hollywood blockbuster, but it’s a developing story in the… Read More ›
A firsthand account of the assassination raid against the former Al-Qaeda head challenges the official US narrative, claiming bin Laden was shot as he peeked out of his bedroom, unarmed. He did not have a weapon or resist, as was… Read More ›
The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks. Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on… Read More ›
A woman may be fined $600 for each day she provided free food to children in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood for the past few months. Angela Prattis, 41, of Chester Township has been distributing free healthy lunches in a neighborhood… Read More ›
by John Glaser In the wake of the Sikh temple massacre by a US Army soldier earlier this month, news that warrior racists are infiltrating America’s armed forces: They call it ‘rahowa’ – short for racial holy war – and… Read More ›
No Criminal Charges for Burners, Officials Say by Jason Ditz The investigation into February’s huge scandal in which US soldiers burned copies of the Quran at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan has come to an end, with officials… Read More ›
27 August 2012 Republican candidate states: “Philosophically, I am A National Socialist” Illinois Republican Congressional candidate, Arthur Jones, openly asserts his allegiance to Nazi/fascism and asserts that the genocide of European Jews during World War II is a Jewish “extortion… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 