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• Guantanamo upgrade: US to spend $40 mil on renovation

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

  

  Despite promises to close Guantanamo Bay, Washington is now preparing to invest tens of millions into renovating the controversial facility’s infrastructure. ­The Pentagon is planning to install a $40-million fiber optic cable at Guantanamo, and the base’s commanders say such… Read More ›

• Alabama pastor holds ‘whites only’ conference

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

  

  A controversial pastor’s conference welcoming only “white Christians” is underway in Lamar County, Ala., upsetting residents of the nearby town of Winfield in the western part of the state. Christian Identity Ministries is holding a three-day conference for so-called “white… Read More ›

• Free Syrian Army: No opposition talks if intervention is not discussed

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

  

  Members of the radical Syrian opposition have boycotted a meeting in Cairo, where some 250 delegates are discussing an internationally backed transition plan. The armed rebels branded it a conspiracy and said the agenda lacked an aggressive stance. The rebel… Read More ›

• UN rights body to probe illegal Israeli settlements

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

  

  UN rights body to probe Israel settlements GENEVA — The UN Human Rights Council has set up a panel to probe Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, a move that further irked Israel which said it will bar its… Read More ›

• Former Argentine dictators found guilty of kidnapping babies

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

  

  Justice at Last for Argentina’s Stolen Children LONDON — Jorge Rafael Videla was the tall, thin one in the triumvirate of senior officers that seized power in Argentina’s 1976 military coup. El Flaco, they used to call him – “the… Read More ›

• Who Killed Yasser Arafat?

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

  

  Now we know he was poisoned – but by whom? by Justin Raimondo Yasser Arafat died on November 11, 2004, of a mysterious ailment. His enemies spread the rumor he had AIDS: David Frum, with typical classiness, claimed he had… Read More ›

• European Parliament Rejects Anti-Piracy Treaty

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

  

  European legislators on Wednesday rejected an international treaty to crack down on digital piracy, a vote that Internet freedom groups hailed as a victory for democracy but that media companies lamented as a setback for the creative industries. Foes of… Read More ›

• On the Day of American Independence

  By The Red Phoenix on July 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›

• Conn. nursing home workers begin strike at 5 homes

  By Editor-in-Chief on July 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  HARTFORD, Conn. — About 700 staff members at five Connecticut nursing homes followed through with a threatened strike on Tuesday to protest what they say are labor concessions imposed by the New Jersey company that owns the facilities. Nurses, nursing… Read More ›

• Regulators release ‘living wills’ for big banks

  By The Red Phoenix on July 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Peter Schroeder Banking regulators released public portions of “living wills” submitted by nine of the world’s largest banks, which details how they could be dissolved if trouble strikes. The documents, required as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law,… Read More ›

• Chris Collins: ‘People Now Don’t Die From Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer’

  By The Red Phoenix on July 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Elise Foley GOP congressional candidate Chris Collins knows health care is expensive these days, but he argues it’s for good reason: People are no longer dying from deadly forms of cancer. “People now don’t die from prostate cancer, breast… Read More ›

• Homeless Students Top 1 Million, U.S. Says, Leaving Advocates ‘Horrified’

  By The Red Phoenix on July 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Saki Knafo and Joy Resmovits Back in November of 2005, Diane Nilan had what she now concedes may have struck some people as a “crazy notion.” She’d been working as advocate for homeless families in Illinois, getting frustrated by… Read More ›

• Gay rights groups condemn shooting of Texas lesbian couple

  By The Red Phoenix on July 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Investigators on Wednesday were still trying to determine a motive for the killing of a teenage woman and the wounding of her girlfriend in a shooting at a South Texas park that has caught the attention of gay rights groups…. Read More ›

• World’s Richest Gain $21.4 Billion as Batista Falters

  By The Red Phoenix on July 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The world’s richest people added a combined $21.4 billion to their collective net worth this week as the wealth gap between billionaire Carlos Slim and Eike Batista widened to more than $50 billion. Batista’s net worth fell $4 billion. Shares… Read More ›

• Why Washington and Moscow want a backroom deal over Syria

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The scene is set for a Clinton-Lavrov meeting that could still ring the death knell for the Assad regime Months of futile diplomatic tussling, UN deadlock and finger-pointing over Syria have boiled down to a dramatic, last-ditch effort this weekend… Read More ›

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