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• Video: George Zimmerman: ‘It Was God’s Plan’

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

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racial Profiling Trial Begins, Attorney Says Policy ‘Starts at the Top’

  By The Red Phoenix on July 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A civil rights trial against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-styled “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” began today in which Arpaio and his department stand accused of racial profiling Latinos in Maricopa County. The class-action suit, which started with a complaint by… Read More ›

• Houston Janitors’ Strike Goes Citywide

  By The Red Phoenix on July 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Governor Mitt Romney got all the press at the NAACP convention in Houston on Wednesday, but janitor Alice McAfee got a standing-o. She spoke to a packed auditorium about her plight and that of over 3,000 fellow janitors in the… Read More ›

• Syria Forces Head Into South Damascus

  By The Red Phoenix on July 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Syrian regime forces battled armed rebels in Damascus for the second day running on Monday, in the clearest sign yet of the 16-month old conflict’s tightening grip on the capital. Residents said plumes of smoke rose over the city as… Read More ›

• New sketch released in shooting of teen lesbian couple in south Texas

  By The Red Phoenix on July 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Texas rangers have released a new sketch of the man suspected of shooting a young woman in the head and murdering her girlfriend while the two were on a date in a public park last month. Mary Kristene Chapa, 18,… Read More ›

• Thousands of anti-NATO marchers gather along Pakistan-Afghanistan border

  By The Red Phoenix on July 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  ISLAMABAD, July 15 (Xinhua) — Thousands protesting Pakistan’s decision to reopen the land supply routes for NATO forces in Afghanistan Sunday gathered at a border town as part of their campaign to mount pressure on the government to withdraw its… Read More ›

• Houston Cops Kill Unarmed Man; Confiscate Cell Phone Video of Incident

  By The Red Phoenix on July 15, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “He wasn’t a troublemaker. This was cold-blooded murder.” ~Rufino Lara’s nephew Houston police officers at the scene claim they gave orders to this man to stop in both English and Spanish; they claim he was shot fatally only after he… Read More ›

• There Is Nothing Brave About Murdering Innocents by Remote Control

  By The Red Phoenix on July 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Glenn Greenwald Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it’s one of the least “brave” or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. The effort to depict drone warfare as some sort of courageous and noble act is… Read More ›

• Many Wall Street executives say wrongdoing is necessary: survey

  By The Red Phoenix on July 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – If the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes were to go out with his lantern in search of an honest man today, a survey of Wall Street executives on workplace conduct suggests he might have to look elsewhere. A quarter… Read More ›

• Fierce clashes in Madrid: Spanish Police Fire Rubber Bullets at Miners

  By The Red Phoenix on July 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

• Unions Fight Scranton Mayor After He Cuts Pay to Minimum Wage

  By The Red Phoenix on July 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By MICHAEL COOPER and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH When the city of Scranton, Pa., found itself down to its last $5,000 in the bank last week, its Democratic mayor took a highly unusual step: he unilaterally cut the pay of city… Read More ›

• IMF reduces US economic growth forecast

  By The Red Phoenix on July 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its estimates for US economic growth for this year and next, and urged policy makers to do more to help the housing sector and support the tepid recovery. In its annual… Read More ›

• Major Rent Strike Against Millionaire Slumlord Catches Fire in Brooklyn

  By The Red Phoenix on July 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  By Laura Gottesdiener As foreclosures continue to put historic pressure on the nation’s rental market, slumlords now have more opportunity than ever to prey on the most vulnerable of tenants. The electrical box in the basement of multifamily brownstone on… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: A sad and shameful day for all who fought for a free Ireland

  By The Red Phoenix on July 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Political Cartoon: Hosni Mubarak verdict: See you in Sharm!

  By The Red Phoenix on July 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

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