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• Video: ‘Gaddafi regime beacon of light compared to current govt’

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

  The siege of Bani Walid, Libya’s ongoing political instability, and the alleged torture of Gaddafi loyalists has left the country a far cry from the vision that western powers had when they supported last year’s NATO bombing. Geopolitical analyst Patrick… Read More ›

• Court ruling: Anti-Jihad posters to come to Washington

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

  

  Washington will become the next American city to display a notorious anti-Jihad public advert, after a district judge declined a local Metro injunction asking for it to be delayed. Washington Metro argued that the posters, which were scheduled to be… Read More ›

• ‘No food, no drugs’: Libyan troops siege ex-Gaddafi stronghold

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Armed Libyan forces continue to surround the city of Bani Walid, Libya. As tension between government troops and opposition supporters continues to mount, residents have been left without food and other supplies – and are calling on the UN for… Read More ›

• Here to stay: Chavez wins Venezuelan presidency (PHOTOS)

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

  

  Incumbent President, Hugo Chavez, has won Venezuela’s tightly-contested presidential elections, clinching a fourth term with over 54 per cent of the vote, according to the National Electoral Council. With more than 90 per cent of the ballot counted, election officials… Read More ›

• Reconsider Colombus Day 2012

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

  Happy Genocidal Maniac Day! Five hundred and eighteen years ago, today 12 October, a momentous event happened. The supposed “discovery” by one Cristóbal Colón—also known as Christopher Columbus, landed on the Bahamian island of San Salvador and subsequently was labeled… Read More ›

• The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”

  By The Red Phoenix on October 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Most of us are familiar with this picture. Captured in Times Square on V-J Day, 1945, it has become one of the most iconic photographs of American history, symbolizing the jubilation and exuberance felt throughout the country at the end… Read More ›

• Dozens arrested at Anti-Columbus Day San Francisco protest (PHOTOS)

  By The Red Phoenix on October 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  About 22 protesters were arrested in an “unpermitted” San Francisco march while police officers tried to disperse them for blocking traffic. Demonstrators wore black clothing, masks and threw rocks, paint and flares at police, injuring one officer. The protest started… Read More ›

• 14 Years Ago Today

  By The Red Phoenix on October 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Jamie McGonnigal On October 7, 1998, Aaron Kreifels was riding his bike through a field in Wyoming. He wasn’t expecting that day to be different from any other beautiful sunny afternoon in the vast plains surrounding Laramie, but that… Read More ›

• US Authorizes Financial Support For the Free Syrian Army

  By The Red Phoenix on October 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A US group that supports the Free Syrian Army has received a waiver from the US Treasury Department authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the armed Syrian resistance. The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office… Read More ›

• Thousands protest in Turkey over Syria mandate

  By The Red Phoenix on October 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Protesters take to the streets in Ankara and Istanbul after Turkey’s parliament approved military operations against targets in Syria following the deaths of five Turkish citizens from Syrian shelling. Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Istanbul on Thursday… Read More ›

• Congressman calls evolution lie from ‘pit of hell’

  By The Red Phoenix on October 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are “lies straight from the pit of hell” meant to convince people that they do not need a savior. The… Read More ›

• Wal-Mart Strike: Dozens Of LA Workers Walk Off The Job In First-Ever Strike Against Retailer (PHOTOS)

  By Editor-in-Chief on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Kathleen Miles For the first time in Walmart’s 50-year history, workers at multiple stores have gone on strike, even though their jobs are not protected by a labor union. More than 70 Los Angeles Walmart workers from nine stores… Read More ›

• US Envoy: Preparations Made for Attacking Iran

  By The Red Phoenix on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Insists US ‘Totally in Sync’ With Israel by Jason Ditz In an interview today with the Times of Israel, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro denied any disagreements between the US and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the prospect… Read More ›

• Land sold off and used for biofuels could have fed 1 billion people – report

  By The Red Phoenix on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  2 million kilometers of foreign purchased land in developing countries is either idle or used for Western biofuel production, according to a British charity. Oxfam’s report estimates an area the size of London is sold every six days. The report… Read More ›

• PTSD Counselors Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Troubled Army Base

  By The Red Phoenix on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Mike Elk, In These Times In 2010, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes labeled Fort Lewis-McChord, a joint Army and Air Force base in Washington state, “the most troubled base in the military” due to its inability to treat… Read More ›

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