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• 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 ›

• 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 ›

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