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• NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast

  By The Red Phoenix on February 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the Associated… Read More ›

• Native Nations Make Own Cigarettes to Avoid N.Y. Tax

  By The Red Phoenix on February 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By THOMAS KAPLAN ONEIDA, N.Y. — The trucks lumber past cornfields and dilapidated farm houses, pull up to a onetime bingo hall and unload their cargo: boxes of tobacco imported from the Carolinas. Inside, employees of the Oneida Indian Nation… Read More ›

• Maryland lawmakers pass bill to allow gay marriage

  By The Red Phoenix on February 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  State senators approved a gay marriage bill 25-22 Thursday, moving Maryland closer to becoming the eighth state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages. Gay marriage opponents in the Senate unsuccessfully attempted to attach amendments to the House bill, which… Read More ›

• The “Feminism” of Maggie Thatcher

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

  

  Celebrating the Self-Empowerment of Elite White Women by GAIL DINES I usually like watching Meryl Streep, but I seriously hope that she doesn’t win an Oscar on Sunday for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. I couldn’t stand the thought of… Read More ›

• The Sierra Club Took Millions From Fracking Industry

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

  

  When Will They Give It Back? by RUSSELL MOKHIBER Last week, I wrote an article about how Chesapeake Energy, through its fracking activity, was destroying the rural way of life in West Virginia. After the article ran, an insider called… Read More ›

• Muslims to attorney general: Investigate NYPD

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

  

  By CHRIS HAWLEY NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based… Read More ›

• Oakland police shoot Oscar Grant’s cousin

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Jorge Rivas Oakland Police shot and seriously injured Tony Jones, 24, late Sunday. Jones’ mother says he is a cousin of Oscar Grant, whose murder by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year’s Day, 2009, sparked a movement… Read More ›

• Fresh Anti-US Protests Erupt in Afghanistan

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

  

  American apologies are falling on deaf ears in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, where anger over the burning of Qurans is boiling over. Deadly anti-American protests erupted in Afghanistan for a fourth day Friday, with thousands of Afghans pouring onto the… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: First Libya, then Syria and finally Iran

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

  

• Worth a Thousand Words: Bradley Manning & Imperialism

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

  

• Agent: Informant in militia case got about $31K

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 23, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By ED WHITE The Associated Press DETROIT — An undercover informant was paid about $31,000 in cash for his critical role in an investigation that led to charges against members of a Midwest militia accused of plotting rebellion against the… Read More ›

• Israel-Iran shadow war

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

  

  * In the past two years, four Iranian scientists have been mysteriously assassinated * The only one to survive so far is Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani, now the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, who jumped away from his car seconds before… Read More ›

• Longest Palestinian hunger strike ends in deal

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

  

  (Reuters) – A Palestinian held without trial ended a 66-day hunger strike Tuesday after Israeli authorities promised to release him in April in a deal that avoided judicial review of its detention policy. Khader Adnan, a 33-year-old member of the… Read More ›

• Assassinating Iranian Scientists

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

  

  The Original Sin: Assassinating Iranian Scientists by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH To avoid restating the obvious, or repeating what others have already established, I take these facts as givens: that the main perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientists has been the… Read More ›

• Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next Phase

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 22, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting “We are the 99 percent” into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week…. Read More ›

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