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• Officials: US to Provide Syrian Rebels With Direct Military Aid, Armored Vehicles

  By The Red Phoenix on March 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The US is looking to dramatically broaden the definition of “non-lethal support” as it relates to Syria’s rebel factions, according to European officials familiar with recent private meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry. Expanding the definition, the US is poised… Read More ›

• Autopsy: Palestinian Prisoner Died of ‘Extreme Torture’ in Israeli Custody

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Arafat Jaradat, a father of a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son, worked as a gas station attendant and his wife, Dalal, is pregnant. Craig Brown, staff writer An autopsy on the body of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two,… Read More ›

• Guess What? The Debt Everyone Is Freaking Out About Does Not Exist

  By The Red Phoenix on February 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  By Jeff Spross What nobody talks about. Between the new-and-improved Simpson-Bowles plan, Joe Scarborough’s feud with Paul Krugman, the relentless drumbeat of the entire Republican Party, and the media blitzkrieg launched by the billionaire-driven “Fix the Debt” campaign, one might think no serious and responsible American can ignore… Read More ›

• The Fascinating Story of “White Boy Rick”: Feds Built Him into Drug Kingpin at Age 14, Then Threw Him in Prison for Life

  By The Red Phoenix on February 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  So why did the authorities turn on him? It started when he helped the feds investigate drug corruption in the Detroit Police Department. Meet Richard Wershe. To other convicts in the Michigan penal system and the handful of DEA and… Read More ›

• Video: Niger approves construction of US spy drone base

  By The Red Phoenix on February 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

• The dirty dozen: Israel’s racist ringleaders

  By The Red Phoenix on February 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Israelis chant “Sudanese Back To Sudan” during a right-wing demonstration against African refugees in south Tel Aviv, 30 May 2012. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills) David Sheen Does Israel refuse to grant equal rights to Palestinian citizens of the state because it is… Read More ›

• Police accused of humiliating transgender woman during Soho Arrest

  By The Red Phoenix on February 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Police officers allegedly ripped a wig from a transgender woman’s head and emptied the contents of her handbag onto the street. Video footage has emerged of officers holding down Jose Dos Santos, 49, as they arrested her on Soho’s Wardour… Read More ›

• British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jasper Copping Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule. But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach… Read More ›

• White South African Govt Minister Says Blacks Have No Claim to South African Land

  By The Red Phoenix on February 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest of land ownership a sharp political poke in the Country’s Parliament this week. He suggested that Black “Bantu-speaking” people had no historical claim to 40 percent of South… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Yoani Sánchez Powered By…?

  By The Red Phoenix on February 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• To cut Afghan red tape, bribery is the norm

  By The Red Phoenix on February 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  KABUL — In a country where Western accusations of corruption have been lobbed at high-ranking officials and public institutions, the malfeasance that drives Afghans against their own government happens every day on a much smaller scale. Forget special investigations and glossy reports… Read More ›

• ‘New race for colonies begins in Africa’

  By The Red Phoenix on February 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Earlier this week, France sent its special forces to Cameroon in search of seven French tourists who were kidnapped in the north of the country on Tuesday. Paris accused the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram of being behind the abduction…. Read More ›

• Connecticut cops pay $3.5 million after killing unarmed man in SWAT raid

  By The Red Phoenix on February 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Three-and-a-half million dollars will be paid out to the family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a poorly-executed SWAT raid nearly five years ago. As part of a settlement in a case involving the 2008 death of 33-year-old… Read More ›

• US senator says 4,700 killed in drone strikes

  By The Red Phoenix on February 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Graham’s office insisted that the senator did not disclose any classified information [EPA] Revelation by Lindsey Graham marks the first time any US official has given a number for drone fatalities. A US senator has said that an estimated 4,700… Read More ›

• Obama moves to keep kill list memos secret forever

  By The Red Phoenix on February 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Brendan Smialowski) United States President Barack Obama has no plans to show Congress the legal rulings that justify his use of drones to kill US citizens, despite urging from members of his own political party…. Read More ›

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