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• A New Record: $66.3 Billion in US Arms Sales Abroad in 2011

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

  

  Obama Claims 78 Percent of World’s Market by Jason Ditz Heavily backed by the US government, US arms makers are a serious growth industry, not only providing weapons to America’s own enormous military for its assorted adventures, but capturing the… Read More ›

• Slap on the Wrist for Troops in Corpse Urination Video

  By Editor-in-Chief on August 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Common Dreams staff Three of the Marines involved in the video that surfaced in January of soldiers urinating on the corpses of Afghans have received “nonjudicial punishment” on Monday for their roles in the incident. Because they received “nonjudicial punishment,”… Read More ›

• Editorial: Unemployment and You

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

  

  by George Wilson Everyone reading this knows what it’s like to be unemployed or to have their hours cut. Everyone knows unemployment and bad hours is a problem but little do people realize what causes the problem. Everyone has their… Read More ›

• Cover-Up of Civilian Drone Deaths Revealed by New Evidence

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

  

  By Gareth Porter, Truthout Editors Note: “The New America Foundation (NAF) pages showing purported numbers for civilian drone casualties that are linked to and discussed in this article were previously public (see cached version). As of August 22, a few… Read More ›

• The Electoral Victory of Political Islam in Egypt

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

  

  by Samir Amin The electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood and of the Salafists in Egypt (January 2012) is hardly surprising. The decline brought about by the current globalization of capitalism has produced an extraordinary increase in the so-called “informal”… Read More ›

• The 5 countries the GOP would model U.S. abortion law on with its new anti-abortion platform

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

  

  By Megan Carpentier Despite the tremendous pressure on the Republican party following Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) comments about “legitimate rape,” supposedly natural contraception and abortion, CNN reported last night that the Republican platform to be affirmed at the convention last… Read More ›

• Friend or foe: Afghanistan to re-screen security forces to curb rogue attacks

  By The Red Phoenix on August 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Afghan government is going to re-examine the files of 350,000 policemen and soldiers in an effort to prevent attacks on international troops, after the Taliban claimed to have moles in the country’s security forces. ­The announcement comes after President… Read More ›

• Akin rape theory rooted in Nazi death camp experiments

  By The Red Phoenix on August 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By David Edwards The theory behind Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) assertion earlier this week that women who are victims of “legitimate” rape would not get pregnant appears to be based on 1972 research that cites experiments done in Nazi concentration… Read More ›

• Worth a Thousand Words: Republicans for Rape

  By The Red Phoenix on August 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Syrian rebels call for no-fly zone

  By The Red Phoenix on August 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Hadeel Al Shalchi ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) – Syrian rebels fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad need the protection of no-fly zones and safe havens patrolled by foreign forces near the borders with Jordan and Turkey, a Syrian opposition leader… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: U.S. pitbull threatens to raid Ecuador embassy to get Assange

  By The Red Phoenix on August 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Political Cartoon: 86 years of FIDELity

  By The Red Phoenix on August 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• The Forgotten Palestinians

  By The Red Phoenix on August 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Inequality Inside the Green Line by PATRICK O. STRICKLAND Tel Aviv. On May 15, the New York Times ran an editorial authored by Aaron David Miller under the title of “Preserving Israel’s Uncertain Status Quo.” Miller argues that the Israeli… Read More ›

• Israel falsifies documents to deport Sudanese migrants

  By The Red Phoenix on August 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Israel has deported Sudanese asylum seekers by issuing documents with purposefully incorrect nationalities, a recently published report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed. More than 100 Sudanese nationals in Israel were given passports or birth certificates incorrectly labeling… Read More ›

• Breivik ‘supporter’ accused of plotting copycat attacks in Czech Republic

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

  

  Commandos find arms cache in raid on home after tip-off from neighbours An alleged sympathiser with the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was charged by police yesterday on suspicion he had been planning to carry out a series of… Read More ›

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