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• Epidemic of kidnappings breaks out in Syria

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

  

  By Ruth Sherlock, Beirut An epidemic of kidnappings has broken out in Syria, with rebels funding their military operations with ransoms and common criminals taking the opportunity to make money. In al-Bab, a town on the periphery of Aleppo, abductions… Read More ›

• Benghazi Attack a ‘Major Blow’ to CIA

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

  

  CIA Forced to Evacuate Spies After Consulate Sacked by Jason Ditz The attack earlier this month on the Benghazi consulate, which killed four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens was a blow to a lot of people…. Read More ›

• White House knew Benghazi attack was a terrorist act from day one

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  From day one, the Obama administration was aware that the September 11 assault on the US consulate in Benghazi was a pre-planned terrorist attack, despite offering up conflicting explanations in the weeks since. Unnamed officials confirm to Fox News that… Read More ›

• Netanyahu plays cartoonist, goes apocalyptic over ‘Iranian bomb’ at UN

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

  

  Unable to win US support for a figurative ‘red line’ on Iran’s nuclear program, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu drew a literal one during a speech to the UN General Assembly, and offered an apocalyptic vision of a nuclear bombing of… Read More ›

• State Dept. reportedly removes Iran’s MEK from terrorism list

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

  

  WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. State Department reportedly removed the terrorist designation from the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Iranian anti-regime group. Numerous media reported MEK’s removal last Friday, although the State Department has yet to make a formal announcement. MEK in… Read More ›

• Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege

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

  

  Doctors and residents blame US weapons for catastrophic levels of birth defects in Fallujah’s newborns. Dahr Jamail Fallujah, Iraq – While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium… Read More ›

• Video: ‘Free speech? Let Obama talk to Bradley Manning about it’

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

• Judge throws out charges against Occupy Chicago protesters

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

  

  BY DAN MIHALOPOULOS They were handcuffed, hauled out of Grant Park and stuck in jail for up to 24 hours — even though the maximum penalty for a curfew violation includes no jail time. But now, a judge said the… Read More ›

• Honduras human rights lawyer for agrarian groups murdered at wedding

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

  

  TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A leading human rights lawyer who represented several Honduran agrarian groups in disputes with large landowners was killed by gunmen on Sunday, a land rights organization said. Antonio Trejo Cabrera, 41, was shot five times while attending… Read More ›

• Treasure islands? Japan-China dispute sparks fears of war as US, Taiwan weigh in

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

  

  Taiwan recently entered a mounting dispute over islands in the East China Sea by sending dozens of fishing boats to the region. Analysts fear these tiny, uninhabited islands could become the flashpoint for a full-fledged international conflict. The islands at… Read More ›

• Obama threatens Iran in UN speech

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

  

  From New York, US President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly that he advocates a diplomatic resolution to the Iranian nuclear conflict and condemns the anti-Islamic film that has sparked violent protests overseas. Tuesday morning’s speech before the… Read More ›

• West to Mali: Hold Elections First, Then We’ll Invade

  By The Red Phoenix on September 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  US Discussing Unspecified Role in Future War by Jason Ditz Which comes first, the dubious election to select a government, or a foreign military invasion to prop that government up? If you’re talking Mali, the Western world is pretty clear… Read More ›

• ‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker was a federal informant

  By The Red Phoenix on September 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Much remains unanswered about the US-made film that sparked riots across the Arab World, but more is unraveling by the day regarding the movie’s producer. Now it’s reported that the man behind ‘Innocence of Muslims’ was once a federal informant…. Read More ›

• Journalist arrested for defacing anti-Muslim ad in NYC subway

  By The Red Phoenix on September 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  An Egyptian-American activist was arrested by the NYPD on Tuesday and charged with criminal mischief and graffiti for spray-painting an advertisement in a New York subway station that had been viewed as hateful to Muslims. Mona Eltahawy, 45, was detained… Read More ›

• Food Stamp Ridicule Humiliates Woman At The Supermarket

  By The Red Phoenix on September 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Arthur Delaney Cindy Nerger of Warner Robins, Ga., said she and her husband aren’t proud when they use their food stamp debit card to buy groceries. “I felt shy when I used them and my husband does, too,” Nerger,… Read More ›

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