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• Bradley Manning demands dismissal of his case due to inhumane punishment

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

  

  Bradley Manning is expected to testify in a pretrial hearing that he has been punished illegally by being locked in solitary confinement. The whistleblower hopes that his inhumane punishment is grounds for having all charges against him dismissed. Manning, who… Read More ›

• UN implicitly recognizes Palestinian statehood

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

  

  The UN General Assembly has voted to upgrade Palestinians’ diplomatic status to a “non-member observer state,” thus implicitly recognizing a Palestinian state. This comes despite strong opposition from the US and Israel. The Palestinian bid has been upheld with 138… Read More ›

• Nazism nyet? Not yet

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

  

  Moscow is dismayed after a number of countries failed to support a resolution designed to fight against the glorification of Nazism. The Foreign Ministry said Moscow regrets that the United States, the European Union and Ukraine have refused to support… Read More ›

• Condemned…again: ‘Genocidal’ US embargo on Cuba slammed by UN for 21st year

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

  

  The UN has urged the US to lift the 52-year trade embargo with Cuba in an almost-unanimous vote. Cuba likened the blockade to “genocide” and said it was disappointed that Obama had not taken measures to lift the disputed embargo…. Read More ›

• Puerto Rico Divided on Statehood, Majority Demands Decolonization

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

  

  by Maritza Stanchich, Ph.D. The opening line of President Obama’s victory speech — “Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward” — felt ironic in… Read More ›

• The Humiliation of Bradley Manning

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

  

  by Ray McGovern It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman, and degrading… Read More ›

• Leave the Vladimir Lenin’s Monuments where they are! Hands off Lenin!

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

  

  Petition by ILYA BORTNIKOVSosnovoborsk, Russian Federation Reputable mister President! Vladimir Vladimirovich!  Russian lawmakers believe it’s time to remove monuments to the leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, from town and city squares across the country.  We, who… Read More ›

• 10,000 US troops to stay in Afghanistan past 2014 deadline

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

  

  Ten thousand US troops will stay in Afghanistan past 2014, senior officials say, despite earlier demands from President Barack Obama to end the war during the second year of his upcoming term. Most of the 66,000 or so troops currently… Read More ›

• 100,000 Egyptians protest as ‘Pharaoh’ Morsi digs heels in over power grab (PHOTOS)

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

  

  Police in Cairo used teargas against protesters after clashes erupted on Tahrir Square, leaving one dead. The violence came before a 100,000-strong rally demanding the country’s Islamist president withdraw decrees vastly expanding his power. Police fired tear gas after hundreds… Read More ›

• Free Leonard Peltier!

  By The Red Phoenix on November 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a hero-in-the-struggle who has been unjustly… Read More ›

• Religious exemption at some Florida children’s homes shields prying eyes

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  They shaved him bald that first morning in 2008, put him in an orange jumpsuit and made him exercise past dark. • Through the night, as he slept on the floor, they forced him awake for more. • The sun had not… Read More ›

• The Absolute Right of Palestinian Resistance

  By The Red Phoenix on November 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Political, Social and Human Right of Self-Defense by Lynda Burstein Brayer Once again the bombs are falling on the Gaza Strip, a stretch of territory excised from Palestine proper as a result of continuing illegal and illegitimate actions by Israel…. Read More ›

• Wal-Mart Plays Down Labor Protests at Its Stores

  By The Red Phoenix on November 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Wal-Mart faced not only a throng of shoppers on Black Friday but what a union-backed group said was the biggest wave of protests that the retailer had ever seen, a contention the company disputed. The group, OUR Walmart, said there were protests at… Read More ›

• US Using Bad Info for Drone Strikes Like It Did for Detainees

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Just as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA and U.S. military act on bad intel when designating targets for drone attacks. As when the United States greased the skids for war with Iraq, it’s ratcheting up tensions with… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Gaza Oppressor Oppressed

  By The Red Phoenix on November 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

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