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• Dharun Ravi Guilty of Hate Crimes for Suicide of Tyler Clementi in Webcam Spy Trial

  By The Red Phoenix on March 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By KATE ZERNIKE NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student was convicted on Friday on all 15 charges he had faced for using a webcam to spy on his roommate having sex with another man, a verdict poised… Read More ›

• St. Patrick’s Day and the Irish Struggle

  By The Red Phoenix on March 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  St. Patrick’s Day is typically portrayed as a day for drinking, festivities and revelry. However, we in the American Party of Labor believe that revolutionaries should set aside some time every year to remember the tragedy of discrimination the Irish… Read More ›

• Modern Chain Gangs: the Profitability of Prison Labor Today

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 17, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  States are increasingly utilizing prison labor to plug budget holes, but public employee unions aren’t happy. BY: Russell Nichols The Cañon City Correctional Complex in southern Colorado is a veritable city of prisoners. More than 8,000 inmates are housed in… Read More ›

• The World is a Ghetto: Global Slums – Out of Sight and out of Mind: Deterioration of the Human Condition

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

  

  It has been estimated that more than one to two billion human beings live in slums or shanty towns all over the world. One in every three people in the world will live in slums in the next coming twenty… Read More ›

• On Emotionalism

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

  

  When we come together to discuss the problems of our world, their solutions and the means by which we can achieve these ends, it is often that emotions come to the forefront. This is understandable, since it is impossible to… Read More ›

• Santorum Doesn’t Seem to Mind Offending Puerto Rico

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

  

  By Eric Randall Campaigning in Puerto Rico, Rick Santorum doesn’t show any signs that he wants to pander Wednesday, telling voters (erroneously) that they must declare English their only official language to achieve statehood. You’d think Santorum would want to… Read More ›

• Is a required ultrasound a barrier to abortion?

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

  

  By Anna Werner Abortion is being debated once again on the campaign trail and in state capitals. Lawmakers in Virginia could vote as early as Wednesday on a law that would require women to have an ultrasound before getting an… Read More ›

• Investigation of Neighborhood Watch Captain Who Shot Teen Trayvon Martin Reveals Questionable Police Conduct

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

  

  By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC) and SENI TIENABESO ABC News has uncovered questionable police conduct in the investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch captain in Florida, including the alleged “correction” of at… Read More ›

• Shootings further dent Americans’ support for war

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

  

  By ANNE GEARAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The weekend massacre of Afghan civilians, allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier, further undermines the rationale for a war that a majority of Americans already thought wasn’t worth fighting. But the Obama administration… Read More ›

• Homeless mother who sent six-year-old son to better school in the wrong town jailed for five years

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

  

  By Graham Smith A mother who pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her six-year-old son in the wrong school district has been sentenced to five years in prison. Tonya McDowell sent her son to an elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, instead… Read More ›

• U.S. Army Massacres 16 Afghan Civilians: ‘Several drunk troops behind bloodbath, laughed on shooting-spree, burned corpses’

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

  

  Gruesome new details are surfacing after 16 Afghan villagers including nine children were shot in their houses by at least one US serviceman. Witnesses to the atrocity now say that several drunken American soldiers were involved. Neighbors at the village… Read More ›

• Kissinger: We should ignore intelligence and assume Iran wants nukes

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

  

  By Agence France-Presse March 11, 2012 Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that the United States should assume that Iran is actively preparing to build nuclear weapons. Kissinger, 88, was asked on the CNN… Read More ›

• Netanyahu threatens unilateral strike against Iran ‘in months’

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

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the specter of war by saying unilateral strikes on Iranian nuclear sites are possible within months. Speaking with local media for the first time since returning from Washington earlier this week, Netanyahu said… Read More ›

• Central Africa: Don’t Elevate Joseph Kony

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

  ANALYSIS Put yourself in Joseph Kony’s shoes: imagine you are a fugitive leader of a rebel band in the forests of central Africa, travelling on foot and avoiding encounter with any organized military force. You have spurned peace talks and… Read More ›

• Army rule: Egyptian military doctor acquitted for ‘virginity tests’

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

  

  The decision by a military court today disappointed rights groups who saw the case as a chance to curtail the Egyptian military’s culture of impunity. By Kristen Chick, Correspondent / March 11, 2012 Cairo A military court today acquitted an… Read More ›

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