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• 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 ›

• Canadian police face multiple ‘sexual abuse’ accusations from aboriginal women – HRW

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

    Photographs of a 17-year old girl’s injuries after a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police repeatedly punched herwhile she was handcuffed in British Columbia in 2011.(Photo from hrw.org) Canada’s national police force stands accused of raping and sexually… Read More ›

• Editorial: A-Paul-Calypse Now – Bitter War in Libertarian Bizzaro World!

  By The Red Phoenix on February 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Seems like trouble is brewing for Ron Paul and his liberty-loving acolytes.  In two separate incidents this week, it appears that Rep. Paul is proving things aren’t always as sunny as they seem in Paul-idise. The first situation started when… Read More ›

• Leave it to the Market?

  By The Red Phoenix on February 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  For more than twenty years now, the “free market” has been the rallying cry of American politics. Conservatives sing its praises while occasionally betraying it when it suits their constituency, liberals won’t criticize it but claim that it needs to… Read More ›

• China overtakes US as world’s largest trading country

  By The Red Phoenix on February 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  AFP Photo / China out China has passed the US as the world’s biggest trading nation as measured by the sum of exports and imports in 2012. It’s a position the US has held for over six decades. US exports… Read More ›

• Rod Richardson: the mystery of the protester who was not who he claimed

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Paul Lewis and Rob Evans The mother of the real Rod Richardson, who died at two days old, fears an officer assumed his identity to pose as an activist Rod Richardson celebrated his 29th birthday in style on 5 January 2002. After… Read More ›

• CIA Admits Full Monitoring of Facebook and Other Social Networks

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  February 8, 2013 – Most people use social media like Facebook and Twitter to share photos of friends and family, chat with friends and strangers about random and amusing diversions, or follow their favorite websites, bands and television shows. But… Read More ›

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