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• Exxon Deal Brings Iraq, Kurdistan to Brink of Civil War

  By The Red Phoenix on December 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Aide: Maliki Willing to Start War Over Oil Drilling War over oil in Iraq is a rather old issue, but as Iraq seems to be drawn ever near to an open civil war setting the central government against the Kurdistan… Read More ›

• Court Rules Antiwar Activists Can Sue Government Spies

  By The Red Phoenix on December 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The legal action is against a US military agent used by Homeland Security to spy on peace activists. A federal appeals court involving antiwar activists who were secretly infiltrated by US military spies has ruled in favor of the activists, marking the… Read More ›

• International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations: Resolution on the Situation in Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on December 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The plenary of the ICMLPO, held for the first time in Africa, reaffirms its support for the right of the Syrian people to live under a democratic regime: a regime that guarantees freedom, equality, social justice and dignity, as well… Read More ›

• Vatican official daily slams gay marriage as communist ‘utopia’

  By The Red Phoenix on December 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Vatican’s newspaper slammed laws on gay marriage as an attempt at a communist-like “utopia”, a day after tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in France to support homosexual unions. In a scathing front-page editorial yesterday, the official Osservatore… Read More ›

• Unexploded Ordnance Kills 10 Afghan Children

  By The Red Phoenix on December 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Ten Afghan girls between the ages of 9 and 13 were killed, and two others wounded in critical condition Ten Afghan girls, aged from nine to 13, were killed on Monday when an unexploded bomb or landmine detonated as they were out… Read More ›

• EU to consider ‘all options’ to aid rebels as Syria asks for humanitarian help

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  EU leaders have called on their foreign ministers to consider all options to support the Syrian opposition and put pressure on the Syrian leadership. It comes as the Syrian FM blames sanctions for the country’s humanitarian crisis, asking for UN… Read More ›

• Secretary Clinton won’t testify before Senate on Benghazi attack

  By The Red Phoenix on December 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not have to testify before a Senate hearing concerning the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi after she fainted and sustained a concussion last week. Clinton, 65, is currently recovering at… Read More ›

• Tunisia’s ‘unfinished revolution’ — interview with Workers’ Party militant

  By The Red Phoenix on December 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Peter Boyle November 16, 2012 — Green Left Weekly — Abdel Jabbar Madouri (pictured above) has been a militant in Tunisia since his early secondary school days. He was jailed three times (in 1987,1993 and 2002) because of his political activism. After every arrest,… Read More ›

• Israel’s Ethiopians suffer different ‘planned’ parenthood

  By The Red Phoenix on December 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The revelation that Israel is sterilizing Ethiopian women adds to a shameful history of abuse of powerless women and communities. It’s hard to believe, but in Israel, in 2012, Ethiopian women are forced to receive injections of the Depo-Provera contraceptive…. Read More ›

• Florida cops tase man for trying to put out fire on his own house

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  After a Florida man picked up a garden hose to try to extinguish a fire that engulfed his neighbor’s house in flames, he was brutally tasered by police in front of his two children. After laying in a puddle while… Read More ›

• U.S. defense chief orders Patriot missiles to Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on December 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Phil Stewart INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order on Friday to send two Patriot missile batteries to Turkey with 400 American personnel to operate them, in a move by NATO members to… Read More ›

• Dark Secret of the US Military — Neo-Nazis and Criminals Are Filling Its Ranks

  By Editor-in-Chief on December 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  How the armed services have become a sanctuary for racists and the mentally unfit. The following is an excerpt from “Irregular Army: How The US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, And Criminals To Fight The War On Terror,” by Matt… Read More ›

• Bryan Fischer: ‘Clamp down’ on ‘socialist’ Hispanics who voted for Obama

  By The Red Phoenix on December 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By David Edwards While many Republicans are calling on their party to be more inclusive after stinging losses in the 2012 election, the director of issues analysis of a conservative fundamentalist Christian organization says that it’s time to “clamp down”… Read More ›

• Massacres Under the Looking Glass

  By The Red Phoenix on December 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The ICC and Colombia by DANIEL KOVALIK The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia (1).   It is an interesting read, revealing as much about the ICC itself as it does about Colombia.   In the Report,… Read More ›

• New Mexico Cop tazes 10-year-old boy for not listening during ‘career day’ visit

  By The Red Phoenix on December 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The guardians of a young New Mexico boy are suing after learning a police officer used a 50,000 volt tazer on their 10-year-old child. Police officer Chris Webb was attending ‘career day’ at the Tularosa Intermediate School on May 4, 2012. It… Read More ›

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