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• Prince Harry ‘kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk’, says Mujahideen leader

  By The Red Phoenix on January 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by ELLEN BRANAGH Prince Harry “kills innocent Afghans while he is drunk”, while foreign forces in Afghanistan have failed, a controversial Mujahideen leader in the country has declared. In an outspoken interview, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder and… Read More ›

• Video: FBI knew of plot to kill Occupy Wall Street activists, remained silent

  By The Red Phoenix on January 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Only one month into the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations last year, plans were formulated to identify key figures in the movement and execute them with a coordinated assault using sniper rifles, new documents reveal.

• Justifying assassination

  By The Red Phoenix on January 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  If the White House is going to act as judge, jury and executioner in targeting individuals with airstrikes, the least it can do is divulge its legal rationale. A federal judge in New York ruled this week that the Obama… Read More ›

• The Sacred Cow of American Defense Spending

  By The Red Phoenix on January 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Would You Feel Safer With a Nuclear Missile Silo in Your Neighborhood? 2012 headlines were full of horrible depressing news: cuts on the federal, state, county and the city level.  The nation was subjected to a full time diet of… Read More ›

• Amnesty International’s latest arms trade campaign is colonialism with a kindly face

  By The Red Phoenix on January 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  If you needed any further proof that Amnesty International is to the 21st century what rum-swigging bearers of the White Man’s Burden were to the 19th, look no further than its current campaign for a global arms trade treaty. Amnesty is… Read More ›

• The ‘war on terror’ – by design – can never end

  By The Red Phoenix on January 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As the Pentagon’s former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction Last month, outgoing pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson gave a speech at the Oxford Union and said that the War on… Read More ›

• Endless ‘debate over two-state solution’ is cover for the real story, annexation of West Bank

  By The Red Phoenix on January 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Philip Weiss One of the wiser political observations I’ve read lately was from Joseph Dana in the National: “the debate about the two-state solution has become an important diversion from discussing the true nature of Israeli colonialism.” I’ve noticed the… Read More ›

• Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer’s 1973 Murder After Military Coup

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By PASCALE BONNEFOY SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a popular songwriter and theater director, Víctor Jara, who was tortured and killed days after the 1973 military coup in a stadium that… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: US waits Hugo Chavez’s fate

  By The Red Phoenix on January 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

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• Free Syrian Army claims chemical weapons capability

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

  

  A prominent member of the Free Syrian Army claims the rebels have all the components to produce chemical weapons and have the know-how to put them together and use if necessary. “If we ever use them, we will only hit… Read More ›

• Time to Invade, the U.S. Military Seeking Deployment in as many as 35 African Countries in 2013

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

  

  by Ezra Van Auken With United States officials itching to occupy another region of the world, they’ve set their sights on Africa. Since the installment of AFRICOM or the United States African Command in 2007 there has been an increased… Read More ›

• Privatization in Ex-Communist Countries Killed Over One Million People

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

  

  As many as one million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies followed by post-communist countries in the 1990s, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The Oxford-led study measured the relationship between… Read More ›

• Woman Who Pushed Man Onto Subway Tracks for Being “Muslim or Hindu” Is Charged With Hate Crime

  By The Red Phoenix on December 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By MARC SANTORA A 31-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday and charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in connection with the death of a man who was pushed onto the tracks of an elevated subway station in Queens… Read More ›

• Next-gen US drone: Now equipped with ‘death ray’ laser

  By The Red Phoenix on December 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but will likely be fitted with an ultra-light laser, capable of repeatedly destroying objects at the speed of… Read More ›

• Matt Taibbi: Libor scandal biggest ‘Wall Street-related story of this year’

  By The Red Phoenix on December 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Samantha Kimmey On the Current TV show Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi said that the underreported Libor scandal was the “the biggest story, Wall Street-related story, of this year.” “There’s been a whole spate of market… Read More ›

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