What the elites in Washington are conniving.
Feds Can’t Be Sued for Illegally Spying on Americans The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown out the only lawsuit ever likely to advance on the federal government’s warrantless wiretapping, declaring in their ruling that the… Read More ›
Hate groups have uneasy history with military base A billboard along the main road into Fort Bragg, N.C., in the mid-1990s read: “Enough! Let’s start taking back America.” Below the slogan was the telephone number for the National Alliance, a… Read More ›
JERUSALEM — Israel on Sunday barred the delegations of five countries from attending a diplomatic conference in Ramallah, in the West Bank, upending plans by the Palestinian president to announce his intention to renew the Palestinians’ bid this September for… Read More ›
A 21-year old man was fatally shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car in Arkansas. The police claim it was a suicide but victim’s family has a hard time believing it. Chavis Carter was… Read More ›
The Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking… Read More ›
Islamabad’s high commissioner believes the US should hand over control of the attacks to his government One of Islamabad’s most senior diplomats is warning that CIA drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas are weakening democracy and risk pushing people towards… Read More ›
Officers with the San Francisco Police Department in Northern California shot a man believed to have a knife this morning, but preliminary reports suggest that the victim was in handcuffs while the authorities opened fire. Police officers with the SFPD… Read More ›
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said. Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known… Read More ›
“Report on Extrajudicial Killings of 110 Black People since January 1st, 2012.” Every 40 hours in the United States one Black woman, man or child is killed by police, and by a smaller number of security guards and self-appointed vigilantes…. Read More ›
A report has unveiled that Saudi officials are trying to strike “a secret deal” with Pakistan to buy nuclear weapons from the Asian country. Citing the recent meeting between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez… Read More ›
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Israeli Defense Ministry wants to evict hundreds of Palestinians from eight hamlets in a West Bank area the military has designated as a firing zone, rights activists said Tuesday, portraying the decision as a new… Read More ›
By ROD NORDLAND CAIRO — It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s — with one unsettling difference. In… Read More ›
Introduction Hailed by capitalist literary critics, Trotskyites and anarchists as a masterpiece, the mediocre book Animal Farm has served a very important role in distorting the history of socialism in the Soviet Union. Modern editions of the book hail author… Read More ›
By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, where he had been receiving medical… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 