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• FM Spokesman on U.S. Announcement of Suspension of Food Aid to DPRK

  By The Red Phoenix on April 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) — A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA Saturday as regards the U.S. moves to exploit the DPRK’s planned launch of satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 for… Read More ›

• Trayvon Martin’s Mother Clarifies Her ‘Accident’ Comment

  By The Red Phoenix on April 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Trayvon Martin‘s mother, Sybrina Fulton, corrected her earlier comments where she said George Zimmerman’s shooting of her son was an accident. Here is her full statement clarifying her remarks, as provided by msnbc.com: Earlier today, I made a comment to… Read More ›

• Prosecutors: Zimmerman Ignored 911 Dispatch, Confronted Trayvon

  By The Red Phoenix on April 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Kirsten West Savali George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with second degree murder in the February 26 shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has consistently stated through family and legal council that he returned to his car after… Read More ›

• New Mali Leader Sworn in, Vows ‘Total War’

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

  

  by Jason Ditz Insists Mali Will Never Negotiate With Tuaregs His term is likely to be fairly short, as officials talk about holding elections soon, but Dioncounda Traore was sworn in today as Mali’s interim president, promising “to wage a… Read More ›

• Castro, Baseball and the Thought Police

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by JOHN ESKOW “You are Free, America, to Do as We Tell You!” What a pitiful spectacle. Ozzie Guillen, the hard-partying eccentric who manages the Florida Marlins, sits weeping in the harsh glare of TV lights, forced by his bosses… Read More ›

• Christians Fight for Their Children’s God-Given Right to Bully Gay Kids

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

  

  By Erin Gloria Ryan Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has… Read More ›

• In Hiding, Mali President Issues Resignation

  By The Red Phoenix on April 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Interim President Expected Soon as Junta Also Promises to Step Down by Jason Ditz Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure issued a formal letter of resignation Sunday from his undisclosed hiding place, weeks after being deposed in a military coup. The… Read More ›

• Mich. teacher fired for Trayvon fundraiser

  By The Red Phoenix on April 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  DETROIT — A teacher in southeastern Michigan has been fired for helping students organize a fundraiser for the family of Trayvon Martin, a Florida teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, a national civil rights group said. Brooke… Read More ›

• Wisconsin’s Repeal of Equal Pay Rights Adds to Battles for Women

  By The Red Phoenix on April 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Michelle Goldberg Governor Scott Walker signed a repeal of his state’s workplace-discrimination law—the latest battleground over the issues that matter most to women. On Thursday, with little fanfare, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker signed a bill repealing the state’s 2009… Read More ›

• Trayvon Martin shooting: Debate over photos escalates

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline First it was the hoodie. Now photographs used in the media’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing are the subject of widespread debate, as supporters of both the slain 17-year-old African-American and the shooter,… Read More ›

• Dartmouth Sorority Girl Goes Public With Her Hazing Nightmare

  By The Red Phoenix on April 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Cassie Murdoch After Andrew Lohse, the former Dartmouth frat boy who revealed some dark secrets about the hazing rituals that are apparently commonplace on campus, there’s been a lot of discussion about what exactly goes on in the bowels… Read More ›

• Austerity Kills: Greeks Declare ‘Financial Murder’ at Funeral of Elderly Man

  By The Red Phoenix on April 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Andrew Bashi “I am not committing suicide. They are killing me.” According to one witness, these were the last words of 77-year-old Dimitris Christoulas before shooting himself in the head in Greece’s Syntagma Square last week. Speaking to The… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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