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• Study: Mega Bank JP Morgan Chase Receives A $14 Billion Annual Subsidy From The U.S. Government

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

  

  By Pat Garofalo JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified on Capitol Hill today for the second time in two weeks, appearing before the House Financial Services Committee to discuss the trading debacle that has cost his bank billions of… Read More ›

• These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America

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

  

  by Ashley Lutz This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources. That’s consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983. NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing… Read More ›

• Rodney King, who struggled with demons after beating, dead at 47

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

  

  Rodney King, who died Sunday at 47, struggled with demons in the years after his beating by LAPD police officers made him a household name. King became a symbol for police brutality and troubled relations between the LAPD and minority… Read More ›

• Social scientists build case for ‘survival of the kindest’

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

  

  By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations BERKELEY — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of… Read More ›

• Many US police use cell phones to track: study

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

  

  WASHINGTON — Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released Monday. The survey released by the American Civil Liberties Union found that “the overwhelming… Read More ›

• Is the US Poised to Regain Control of Latin America with Regional Proxy Wars Through Colombia?

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

  

  The Summit of the Americas, Drug Legalization, ‘Asymmetric’ Relations & Security Cooperation by ANNIE BIRD The Summits of the Americas began in 1994 as forums to promote free trade. In 2009 the Summit’s focus shifted to demands for the inclusion… Read More ›

• Michael Parenti: U.S. Aggression & Propaganda Against Cuba

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Why the unrelieved U.S. antagonism toward Cuba? by Michael Parenti In recent times, U.S.-Cuban relations have gone from bad to worse. Under the Administration of George W. Bush, the U.S. boycott has been more stringently imposed. Anti-government agitation within Cuba… Read More ›

• Lost in Translation: Did Iran’s President Call for Israel to be “Wiped Off the Map?”

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Experts confirm that Iran’s president did not call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Reports that he did serve to strengthen western hawks. by Jonathan Steele My recent comment piece explaining how Iran’s president was badly misquoted when… Read More ›

• Election apocalypse: Greeks hoard canned food

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

  

  NERVOUS Greeks are withdrawing up to 800 million euros ($1.01 billion) a day and stocking up on canned food as they fear the country will be forced to leave the eurozone after this Sunday’s election. Greek citizens fear the ramifications… Read More ›

• Egypt’s Elections in Turmoil After Rulings Boost Military

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

  

  By CHARLES LEVINSON And MATT BRADLEY CAIRO—Egypt’s 16-month transition toward democracy was thrust into turmoil just two days before the country’s historic presidential election, as the country’s highest court dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament and its top generals took over legislative… Read More ›

• Egypt supreme court calls for parliament to be dissolved

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

  

  Egypt’s supreme court has caused widespread alarm by calling for the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and for fresh elections. Two days before Egyptians choose a new president, it has declared last year’s parliamentary vote unconstitutional. Muslim Brotherhood… Read More ›

• US expands ‘shadow war’ in Africa with spy planes, report says

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

  

  By Dylan Stableford The U.S. military is expanding its intelligence-gathering operations across Africa, the Washington Post reports, mainly using small, unarmed planes “equipped with hidden sensors that can record full-motion video, track infrared heat patterns, and vacuum up radio and… Read More ›

• Tunisian court sentences Ben Ali to life in prison

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

  

  A Tunisian military court has sentenced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to life in prison for the killings of protesters during last year’s popular revolution that ousted the longtime dictator. The verdict was handed down in absentia on Wednesday after… Read More ›

• US to deploy more than 3,000 troops to Africa

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

  

  All of those troops leaving Afghanistan during the next two years will have to go somewhere, right? The US Army will deploy thousands of soldiers across the continent of Africa during 2013. The Army Times confirms that the US military… Read More ›

• Hundreds protest in Israel illegal immigration battle

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

  

  By Dan Morgan and Guy Azriel Jerusalem (CNN) — Several hundred Sudanese immigrants rallied Sunday on the streets of Tel Aviv, demanding refugee status. Marching towards the United Nations Refugee Agency building, the demonstrators held up banners reading “We are… Read More ›

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