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• 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 ›

• Going commando: IDF ‘hitman/assassin’ posts disturbing pictures on FB, Instagram

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

  image from http://electronicintifada.net   IDF is yet again on the defensive over its troops’ use of social media, after an elite regiment soldier posted pictures of himself half-naked, and smoking drugs on his Instagram, and boasted about killing an Arab… Read More ›

• 40% of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage

  By The Red Phoenix on February 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains. This means the gains went…somewhere else. See if you can guess who got… Read More ›

• The Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 an Hour if it Rose with Productivity Since 1968

  By The Red Phoenix on February 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The… Read More ›

• Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren’t Invented by Al Qaeda — They’re Manufactured by the FBI

  By The Red Phoenix on February 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Africa Studio In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory:… Read More ›

• Obama Waives Child Soldier Ban in Yemen and Congo

  By The Red Phoenix on February 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Yemeni soldiers during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 4, 2011. (Hani Mohammed/AP Photo) By AVNI PATEL Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. military financing will continue to flow to Yemen and three other countries that recruit and use child soldiers, despite… Read More ›

• Foreign-backed Syria opposition pledges allegiance to Israel

  By The Red Phoenix on February 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Leader of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition coalition Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib The leader of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, has pledged allegiance to the Israeli regime if he manages to form a “new regime in Syria.” In a… Read More ›

• Photoshopping away police torture in Greece

  By The Red Phoenix on February 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

    By Leonidas Oikonomakis Greek police may vainly try to photoshop away the torture of four alleged bank robbers, but they cannot gloss over the radicalization of Greek youth. The story is as follows. On February 1st 2013, an attempted… Read More ›

• JFK secretly freed rapists, drug dealers and Mafia hitmen to kill Castro and curb threat of Communism, claims explosive new book

  By The Red Phoenix on February 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Revelations made by journalist Bill Deane in new book ‘Smooth Criminal’ It tells story of alleged CIA spy and ‘one-man crime wave’ Dave Riley Claims criminals allowed on ‘crime sprees’ in US when not working for CIA Deane: ‘Riley was typical recruit:… Read More ›

• US Killed Hundreds of Children in Afghanistan, Says New Report — US Rejects Report

  By The Red Phoenix on February 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  A United Nations committee says the US military is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of children in Afghanistan over the past four years. A United Nations committee has accused the United States government of being responsible for the deaths… Read More ›

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