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• As Sanctions Hit Iran’s Most Vulnerable, the Man Who Dared to Feed Sanction-Starved Iraq Remains in Prison

  By The Red Phoenix on November 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by John Pilger In 1999, I traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, who had resigned as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain,… Read More ›

• U.S. wanted to turn all of Okinawa Island into base site in 1945-46: documents

  By The Red Phoenix on November 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  WASHINGTON — The U.S. military was planning between 1945 to 1946 to use all of Okinawa Island as a permanent site for its bases, declassified U.S. documents have shown. The documents are the latest evidence to apparently reinforce the background… Read More ›

• How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on November 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Michael Kelley The official position is that the US has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria. But there’s growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels…. Read More ›

• Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection

  By The Red Phoenix on November 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by John Glaser Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday… Read More ›

• Israeli policy splits Palestinian families

  By The Red Phoenix on November 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Parents, children, and lovers in the West Bank and Gaza are torn apart by Israel’s strict ‘separation policy’ To Westerners and Palestinians, Gaza “is hell”, says Ali Batha. “It’s a scary place … It’s the last place in the world… Read More ›

• Liberals let Obama get away with unconstitutional actions

  By The Red Phoenix on November 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The president’s deplorable record on privacy and kill lists is an affront to our values. Liberals just shrug it off Let us stipulate, as lawyers like to say, that President Obama has a deplorable record on civil liberties, one that threatens long-term… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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