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• MDOT road sign changed to Trayvon Martin racial slur overnight

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Elisha Anderson Detroit Free Press Staff Writer A racial slur appeared on a portable road sign along westbound I-94 in Detroit early today after the sign was hacked, officials said. Motorists began calling police shortly before 1 a.m. to… Read More ›

• Pensioner’s Suicide Continues to Shake Greece

  By The Red Phoenix on April 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The death of a 77-year-old Greek pensioner who shot himself in the head outside Parliament in despair over his financial problems has shaken this austerity-weary country and a crumbling political system struggling to assert its… Read More ›

• Greece: Clash after service for man who shot self

  By The Red Phoenix on April 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece A protest that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide has turned violent, with some demonstrators badly beating a policeman in Athens and stealing his bulletproof vest and other equipment. Dimitris… Read More ›

• Data Mining You

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

  

  by Tom Engelhardt I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth. On March 22,… Read More ›

• On “Bias”

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

  

  Introduction: Contemporary Bourgeois Journalism Any person who has watched or read a mainstream news source like CNN or Fox News, The New York Times or the Washington Post, will have eventually been confronted with the concept of “unbiased reporting.” The… Read More ›

• Humanitarian Aid Is Military Intervention

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

  

  By Joel Poindexter The recent YouTube documentary Kony 2012 has become quite a sensation. It has inspired millions of people to demand, in one form or another, that the U.S. military take action in Uganda in order to bring to… Read More ›

• Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings

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

  

  Four officers, along with a fifth who helped cover up the 2005 crimes, are sentenced to between six and 65 years in prison Four New Orleans police officers have been sentenced to decades in prison over the killing of two… Read More ›

• Mississippi on way to becoming ‘abortion-free’ state

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A bill passed by Mississippi lawmakers putting new restrictions on doctors performing abortions moves the state one step closer to becoming “abortion free.” There is only one abortion clinic in the state, and the owner, Diane Derzis, has said the… Read More ›

• Parents of Trayvon Martin ask feds to investigate state prosecutor for nixing efforts to arrest George Zimmerman

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

  

  The Martin family will send a formal request for a review of State’s Attorney Wolfinger’s actions to the Justice Department on Monday, lawyer Ben Crump told CNN Sunday The parents of Trayvon Martin are asking the feds to investigate the… Read More ›

• Trayvon Martin case: Mayor says police resisted release of 911 tapes

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

  

  SANFORD, Florida — The mayor of the city where Trayvon Martin was killed says he overruled police and prosecutors who opposed the release of tapes of 911 calls, telling them: “We’re not here to hide anything.” Jeff Triplett, who is… Read More ›

• Does video cast doubt on Zimmerman’s story?

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

  

  Msnbc’s Thomas Roberts speaks with contributor and Managing Editor for the Grio, Joy-Ann Reid, and Rep. Corrine Brown about the new surveillance video showing George Zimmerman four hours after the shooting of Trayvon Martin, and what it means for Zimmerman’s… Read More ›

• 911 Call: Trayvon Martin cried for help before gunshot

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

  

  After repeated calls for the release of the 911 audio in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the Sanford police department finally released the audio on Friday. Trayvon’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton of Miami Gardens, arrived at… Read More ›

• Miami Police detective says racism “alive and well”

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

  

  (Reuters) – A black veteran Miami police officer said on Tuesday that “racism is alive and well” in the United States and is evident in the case of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African American teenager gunned down by a neighborhood… Read More ›

• 7 Right-Wing Bomb-Making Militia Members Acquitted

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  George Zimmerman and these people walk free, but the state executed Troy Davis. The reasons why should be obvious – nationalism and racism. — Red Phoenix Editorial Staff By Robert Snell and Christine Ferrett Detroit— A federal judge acquitted seven members… Read More ›

• New Black Liberation Militia group to attempt citizen’s arrest in Fla. shooting of Trayvon Martin

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Crimesider Staff (CBS/AP) SANFORD, Fla. – The leader of a self-described black militia group says members will go to Sanford next week to attempt a citizen’s arrest on George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who admitted to fatally shooting… Read More ›

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