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• 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 ›

• Video: War Under Table: Ex-Blackwater mercs in Syria ‘backed by US’

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

• Syrian rebels aim to use chemical weapons, blame Damascus – report

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

  

  The armed Syrian opposition has got their hands on chemical weapons, which they acquired from Libya, a media report claims. They allegedly plan to use it against civilians and pin the atrocity on the Bashar al-Assad regime. ­The report by… Read More ›

• Women protesters in Egypt are assaulted

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

  

  Attackers invade rally against sex harassment By Aya Batrawy CAIRO – A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march seeking an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting… Read More ›

• Armed men rally for Islamic law in Libya’s Benghazi

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

  

  Hundreds of armed Libyan men calling for Islamic law staged a demonstration on Thursday in the eastern city of Benghazi, an AFP photographer said. More than 300 men poured into Benghazi’s iconic Freedom Square, some of them on vehicles mounted… Read More ›

• Israeli: Syrian rebels want peace with Israel

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

  

  An Israeli lawmaker says Syrian opposition leaders have told him they want peace with Israel after Syrian President Bashar Assad falls. Israel and Syria are bitter enemies. They have fought several major wars, and Syria backs violent anti-Israel groups. Isaac… Read More ›

• On Revolutionary Discipline

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

  

  Discipline is one of the most important lessons for any person to learn, regardless of the work that is set before them. While the individual may at times be tempted to take the easy route in life, to do the… Read More ›

• Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A critical document from President Barack Obama’s free trade negotiations with eight Pacific nations was leaked online early Wednesday morning, revealing that the administration intends to bestow radical new political powers upon multinational corporations, contradicting prior promises. The leaked document… Read More ›

• Chicago teachers cast overwhelming strike authorization vote

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  CHICAGO – With Chicago teachers facing a hostile mayor and Chicago Board of Education in negotiations for a new contract, 90% of teachers union members have voted to authorize a strike. “This is not a win,” said Chicago Teachers Union… Read More ›

• Drone attacks create terrorist safe havens, warns former CIA official

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

  

  Indiscriminate use of drones in Middle East causes too many civilian casualties, warns former CIA counterterrorism head A former top terrorism official at the CIA has warned that President Barack Obama’s controversial drone programme is far too indiscriminate in hitting… Read More ›

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