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• Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with Afghan corpses prompt condemnation

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

  

  After the Los Angeles Times publishes two pictures, American officials denounce the actions of troops photographed with dead insurgents and their body parts. By David Zucchino and Laura King From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American… Read More ›

• Worth a Thousand Words: the True Face of Anti-Communism

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

  

• APL May Day Photos

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

  

• Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2012!

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

  Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›

• Video: Trayvon Martin 911 Call

  By The Red Phoenix on April 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

• British colonial files released following legal challenge

  By The Red Phoenix on April 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Holly Wallis BBC News Secret files from British colonial rule – once thought lost – have been released by the government, one year after they came to light in a High Court challenge to disclose them. Some of the… Read More ›

• Africans shocked by uncivilized antics of European savages

  By The Red Phoenix on April 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  DAKAR. Africans say they have little hope that Europe will ever become civilized, after a week in which Spain’s King Carlos went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. “You can… Read More ›

• Venezuela’s Minimum Wage to Rise 32.25% in 2012

  By The Red Phoenix on April 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Ewan Robertson Mérida, 9th April 2012 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s national minimum wage is to increase 32.25% in 2012, announced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday. In a televised address from Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Chavez explained that the… Read More ›

• Are Guns the Problem?

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another tragedy taking innocent life. Like clockwork, whenever a high-profile shooting takes place in America, two… Read More ›

• Join the APL for May Day 2012 in Chicago!

  By The Red Phoenix on April 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Join Occupy, union, immigrants rights, community and other activists to organize a March and Rally on May Day 2012 in Chicago. Get involved in a committee: Media, Outreach, Logistics, Education, Program, Fundraising….. … For more information visit: May Day Facebook… Read More ›

• The Violence of Poverty

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

  

  by ALYOSHA GOLDSTEIN On April 22, 1968, the National Welfare Rights Organization held a vigil on Capitol Hill in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been murdered eighteen days earlier. This was to have been the day that… Read More ›

• Why I refused to return to fight in Afghanistan’s brutal occupation

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

  

  The Taliban clearly has broad support from Afghan people. Conscientious objection is a right and obligation in a failed war Recent attacks in Kabul confirm the occupation is falling to pieces. Claims about “decisive years” and “turned corners” are little… Read More ›

• Nearly a million Russians have committed suicide since collapse of Soviet Union

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

  

  An urgent public health campaign must be launched as rates are dangerously high, warn experts Russia’s number of suicides has reached nearly a million since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the rate has dropped from 42 per 100,000… Read More ›

• Hundreds march in Phoenix against Arizona immigration law

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

  

  (Reuters) – A few hundred protesters, some toting placards reading “no to racial profiling,” marched through downtown Phoenix on Wednesday to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to block Arizona’s two-year-old crackdown on illegal immigrants. “My message to the Supreme Court… Read More ›

• New Jersey dad unveils a culture of teacher abuse in autistic son’s elementary school

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NJ dad bugs son over suspicion of school mistreatment (CNN) — A New Jersey man has launched a website to publicize what he calls “a culture of bullying” by teachers in his son’s Cherry Hill classroom after sending the boy… Read More ›

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