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• 8 Atrocities Committed Against Puerto Rico by the US

  By The Red Phoenix on November 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Jose L Vega Santiago Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Caribbean Sea. It is a small island with a population of almost four million citizens. On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish… Read More ›

• Amendment 64 Passes: Colorado Legalizes Marijuana For Recreational Use

  By The Red Phoenix on November 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Matt Ferner The Rocky Mountain High just got a whole lot higher. On Tuesday night, Amendment 64 — the measure seeking the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults — was passed by Colorado voters, making Colorado the first… Read More ›

• Turkey indicts IDF commanders over Gaza flotilla deaths

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Relations between Jerusalem and Ankara have deteriorated since Israeli marines stormed the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May 2010 and killed nine Turks in clashes with activists on board. Turkey is putting four former Israeli military commanders, including the head… Read More ›

• Marxism and Cults of Personality

  By The Red Phoenix on November 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  In the age of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, their ideas are made the ruling ones by the use of power. From historical analysis to modern political practices, their hegemony can be seen in action. Hyper-individualism, substituting metaphysics and mysticism… Read More ›

• Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Inside Store and Then Walk Out

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, November 2, 2012 CONTACT: Jorge Amaro, 202-412 4998, jamaro(at)ufcw.org Joining Nationwide Strikes at Nation’s Largest Retailer, Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Sit-In inside Store, Then Walk Off the Job As Walmart Supercenter Holds Grand Re-Opening, Workers and… Read More ›

• Now US Navy is arming drone boats

  By The Red Phoenix on November 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by John Reed While the US Air Force’s drones have been firing all sorts of air-to-surface missiles and bombs for roughly a decade now, the Navy took a big step toward getting in on the action last week when it… Read More ›

• Death Squads, Murder and U.S. Corruption in Colombia

  By The Red Phoenix on November 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  News broke this week, though not very widely here, that Francisco Santos, who served as Colombia’s Vice-President under President Alvaro Uribe from 2002 to 2010, met three times with leaders of the right-wing paramilitary organization known as the AUC.  Present… Read More ›

• No matter who wins Tuesday’s election, U.S. likely to become entangled in Syria’s war

  By The Red Phoenix on November 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  WASHINGTON — Despite Americans’ exhaustion with 11 years of foreign conflict, the victor in Tuesday’s presidential race may find it all but impossible to keep the United States from becoming more deeply entangled in the unfolding calamity of Syria’s sectarian civil… Read More ›

• How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›

• Syrian rebels seize Lebanese journalist over ‘incompatible’ reporting

  By The Red Phoenix on November 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  In their fervent struggle, a Syrian rebel group has “arrested” a Lebanese journalist in Aleppo saying his “presence as a journalist no longer receives approval in areas controlled by the rebels.” Fidaa Itani, who works for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation… Read More ›

• Israel Admits Assassinating Palestinian Leader in 1988

  By The Red Phoenix on November 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Israel has officially admitted after more than two decades of secrecy that it ordered the Israeli spy agency Mossad to carry out the assassination of Palestinian leader Khalil Ibrahim Wazir. Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, founded the Palestine Liberation Organization and the… Read More ›

• How McGovern Tamed the Anti-War Movement

  By The Red Phoenix on November 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A Bright Shining Illusion? by SARAH BLASKEY and PHIL GASPER Was George McGovern a political saint—a man of such total moral purity that he transcended the day-to-day realities of money and power that usually dominate American politics? That’s certainly the… Read More ›

• Romney Refuses To Comment On Plans To Eliminate FEMA, 14 Times

  By The Red Phoenix on October 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Hurricane Sandy is not turning into a political windfall for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Not only did Romney’s buddy New Jersey Governor Chris Christie go and call President Obama a “great leader” for his storm response but now some… Read More ›

• South Africa’s ruling party endorses anti-Israel boycott

  By The Red Phoenix on October 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Senior members of South Africa’s ruling party have endorsed a boycott campaign against Israel, with former South African deputy president Baleka Mbete calling Tel Aviv ‘far worse than apartheid South Africa’. During an international conference hosted on Sunday by the… Read More ›

• US Pushes Algeria to Support Invasion of Mali

  By The Red Phoenix on October 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  State Dept.: They’re Beginning to Warm to the Idea Algerian officials are still not on board for the international invasion of northern Mali, and that’s a big concern for US officials. Algerian President Bouteflika says he fears the war will… Read More ›

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