News and Analysis from the United States
Yale University is planning to train US Special Forces to detect lies by practicing on immigrants. The program strives to provide soldiers with such interview tactics by practicing on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with”. Starting as early as April,… Read More ›
Arrest and summons quotas for New York police were outlawed in 2010, and although solid evidence of such requirements has been difficult to come by, an audio recording obtained by a New York magazine indicates that the practice continues today…. Read More ›
Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year by Jason Ditz A Vatican-sized fortress along the Tigris River, the US Embassy to Iraq is the stuff of legends, a $730 million testament to the runaway overspending of the occupation era. Ten years after… Read More ›
Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they… Read More ›
Comrades around the world! Today we celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day. We reaffirm that the link between women’s liberation and total human emancipation from exploitation is unbreakable, and that we cannot have one without the other. To speak about… Read More ›
Women looking to procure an abortion in the state of Arkansas will no longer be able to do so after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, prompting opponents to threaten… Read More ›
Writers’ association in Moldova reportedly nominates Paul Goma – who is accused of ‘denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts’ – for Nobel Prize in Literature. A writers’ association in Moldova has reportedly nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of… Read More ›
By OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn’t hold regular cabinet meetings; he’d bring… Read More ›
Jonathan Watts and Virginia Lopez in Caracas Vice president Nicolas Maduro takes up interim post Wave of mourning breaks out in streets of Venezuela Chávez to get state funeral in Caracas Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night… Read More ›
Non-Lethal Aid Doesn’t Conquer Countries, Gen. Idris Insists by Jason Ditz General Salim Idris, the Chief of Staff of the Syrian rebels’ Supreme Military Council, reacted with anger toward the US announcement of additional aid for his forces, insisting that the promise… Read More ›
Many in the West Bank are in mourning over the passing of Arafat Jaradat, who was tortured to death in an Israeli prison – he leaves behind a pregnant widow and two children [AFP] Israel’s policy of torture has left… Read More ›
A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials. Documents about the… Read More ›
Seth MacFarlane during the Oscars on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello) Hey, Seth MacFarlane, did you know many of those “boob” scenes you sang about were depictions of sexual assault? BY KATIE MCDONOUGH Seth MacFarlane has made… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 