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• Walmart’s First-Ever Retail Worker Strike Spreads To 12 Cities [UPDATE]

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

  

  by Alice Hines The first retail worker strike against Walmart has spread from Los Angeles, where it began last week, to stores in a dozen cities, a union official said Tuesday. Walmart workers walked off the job in Dallas, Seattle,… Read More ›

• October surprise: US and Israel prepare to strike Iran

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

  

  The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli… Read More ›

• German state TV reports: Syrian rebels claim responsibility for attack on Turkey

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

  

  by R. Teichmann On Oct. 4th, the German state TV channel ZDF reported on the attack on Turkey several times. In its “Mittagsmagazin” at 1300 hours it reports as follows: 02:06 – 02:32 German: „Raketen- und Granatfeuer. Die Türkei übt… Read More ›

• NATO ‘will defend’ Turkey against Syria as Ankara moves F-16s to border

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

  

  NATO has promised to back Ankara in its escalating conflict with Syria, as Turkey adds 25 new F-16 fighter jets to its border protection force. It follows days of retaliation from Turkey after Syrian shells started coming over the border… Read More ›

• Greek anti-fascist protesters ‘tortured by police’ after Golden Dawn clash

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

  

  Fifteen people arrested in Athens says they were subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation by Maria Margaronis Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have… Read More ›

• Israel launches deadly air strikes on Gaza

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

  

  Israeli air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 12 Palestinians, including a senior militant leader. Zohair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was targeted because he was planning an attack, the Israelis said. Another militant was… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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