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• Saudi Arabia mulls buying nuclear weapons from Pakistan: Report

  By The Red Phoenix on July 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A report has unveiled that Saudi officials are trying to strike “a secret deal” with Pakistan to buy nuclear weapons from the Asian country. Citing the recent meeting between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez… Read More ›

• Turkey Says It ‘Will Not Tolerate’ a Kurdish Sanctuary in Syria

  By The Red Phoenix on July 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Turkey sent tanks and missile batteries to the border next to Syria’s Kurdish region Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will not tolerate a Kurdish safe-haven in Syria following reports that Kurdish rebels and a Syrian Kurdish political party had taken… Read More ›

• Hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from land

  By The Red Phoenix on July 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Israeli Defense Ministry wants to evict hundreds of Palestinians from eight hamlets in a West Bank area the military has designated as a firing zone, rights activists said Tuesday, portraying the decision as a new… Read More ›

• Al-Qaeda Taking Deadly New Role in Syria’s Conflict

  By The Red Phoenix on July 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By ROD NORDLAND CAIRO — It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s — with one unsettling difference. In… Read More ›

• Video: Al-Qaeda Brigades Formed in Syria to Join “Free Syrian Army”

  By The Red Phoenix on July 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

• Iraqis Evicted from Damascus by “Free Syrian Army”

  By The Red Phoenix on July 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Rami Ruhayem BBC News, Baghdad In the late evening, a busload of Iraqis arrived in Baghdad after a 12-hour journey across the desert. With a mixture of anger and resignation, they said that they had been forced to leave… Read More ›

• Assad hands control of Syria’s Kurdish areas to PKK, sparking outrage in Turkey

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

  

  By Roy Gutman ISTANBUL — President Bashar Assad, facing a growing rebel presence in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and its commercial hub, has turned control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds who Turkey has long branded as… Read More ›

• Review of “Animal Farm” (1954 & 1999 Films)

  By Victor Vaughn on July 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction Hailed by capitalist literary critics, Trotskyites and anarchists as a masterpiece, the mediocre book Animal Farm has served a very important role in distorting the history of socialism in the Soviet Union. Modern editions of the book hail author… Read More ›

• Under Israeli blockade of Gaza, books are a rare, cherished commodity

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

  

  Israel does not explicitly ban importing books to Gaza, but the blockade makes it extraordinarily difficult to do so. The shortage amounts to a kind of censorship, Gazans say. By Ruqaya Izzidien, Contributor Gaza City, Gaza The Israeli blockade of… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Russia and China veto on US military intervention in Syria

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

  

• Alexander Cockburn, Acerbic Writer and Critic, Dies at 71

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

  

  By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the mordant left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in the political and cultural battlegrounds of the United States, died on Saturday in Bad Salzhausen, Germany, where he had been receiving medical… Read More ›

• L.A.: Anaheim protest police shooting women and children

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

• US drops biggest-ever human trafficking case amid evidence doubts

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

  

  The Justice Department spent millions of dollars on what is considered to be the largest human trafficking case in the US, only to dismiss it on the grounds that the government would be unable to prove the charges beyond a… Read More ›

• Anaheim police kill another man, cops filmed firing on women & children at protest

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

  

  Anaheim police have shot dead yet another man just a day after killing 24-year old Manuel Diaz. The previous day’s shooting sparked a protest against police brutality that was violently broken up by authorities. Police say the second shooting took… Read More ›

• Blackwater illegally paid millions in taxpayer money

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

  

  For half a decade, American taxpayers unknowingly spent millions of dollars a year to fund the so-called “democracy building” missions in Iraq carried out by Blackwater, the private security firm which regularly changes it name to hide its sins. A… Read More ›

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