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• Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests

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

  

  (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at NATO’s main base in the… Read More ›

• 98-year-old Conn. woman facing eviction by son says her home means ‘everything’ to her

  By The Red Phoenix on February 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Peter Kantorowski wanted his 98-year-old mother to move into a nursing home or live with him. She wouldn’t go; she didn’t want to leave her home of nearly 60 years. Finally, Kantorowski went to court —… Read More ›

• New Jersey Governor Christie vetoes gay marriage

  By The Red Phoenix on February 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill legalizing gay marriage as promised on Friday, asking lawmakers instead to appoint an advocate for same-sex couples under the state’s existing civil union law. Christie, a supporter of Republican… Read More ›

• Video Exposes Chevron’s Decimation of Indigenous Groups In Ecuador’s Amazon

  By The Red Phoenix on February 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 — A Sordid Tale of Crime and Cover-up By Major U.S. Oil Company NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the Ecuadorian rainforest, far from the eyes of the U.S. news media, sits one… Read More ›

• Oklahoma close to becoming first state to enact ‘personhood’ bill

  By The Red Phoenix on February 21, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The organization Personhood USA has been leading state efforts to get a personhood bill made into law. Last year it was behind a similar referendum in Mississippi that eventually failed. Oklahoma could become the first state to give individual rights… Read More ›

• If A Tree Falls…

  By The Red Phoenix on February 20, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  “If a tree falls, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” This question has become iconic in our society and has inspired many debates. The idea behind it is that, if one is not… Read More ›

• Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike poses challenge for Israel

  By The Red Phoenix on February 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  JERUSALEM — A Palestinian prisoner who has refused food for two months to protest his detention without trial is in “immediate danger of death,” according to his attorneys and a doctor from an Israeli medical rights group who examined him… Read More ›

• Glenn Beck: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Will ‘Kill Everybody’

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Glenn Beck made several gruesome predictions about where the Occupy Wall Street movement is headed. Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck made his already-crystal-clear disdain for the protests, which have spread across the U.S., even more plain. He took… Read More ›

• Four wounded in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  GAZA CITY: Three people were wounded early Sunday morning in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man. According to the sources, the latest air strike, which targeted a home in the… Read More ›

• U.S. carrier crosses Hormuz amid rising Gulf tensions

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

  

  (Reuters) – A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group sailed through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday more than a month after Iran warned a different carrier — USS John C. Stennis — not to return to the Gulf as Iranian navy… Read More ›

• Western Libya Militias Form Alliance Against Government

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

  

  Leader of New Federation Lashes NTC for Gadhafi Ties  As the nation still suffers the aftershocks from last year’s civil war, the battle lines for the next Libyan Civil War are starting to take shape today, with the announcement that… Read More ›

• Taliban Warns US to Learn From Soviet Defeat

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

  

  It was 23 years ago this week that the Soviet occupation forces finally gave up on a bloody decade-long war in Afghanistan, limping out of the country with their own economy in tatters, and the Soviet-backed Afghan government on the… Read More ›

• Myths About Socialism: Is It Really Just a Matter of Corporate Greed?

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

  

  Unlike other political philosophers, Karl Marx did not simply dream up an ideal society or concoct ad hoc solutions to the social problems he saw in his time. Marx was an observer who devoted far more of his time and energy… Read More ›

• Rick Santorum Supporter Says Women Should Keep Their Legs Closed for Birth Control

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The comment made by Foster Friess is not simply the case of one man making a chauvinist comment. Rather, it reveals anti-choice campaigners for their inherent patriarchy and misogyny, implying that women should have no right over their own reproduction… Read More ›

• 1.8 MILLION dead people still registered to vote in the U.S., study says

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

  

  24 million of the nation’s active voter registrations have serious errors, Pew Center on the States finds By Braden Goyette / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS At least 1.8 million registered voters won’t be showing up to the polls this fall… Read More ›

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