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• Prop 8, California’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Declared Unconstitutional

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

  

  by LISA LEFF SAN FRANCISCO — Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California’s ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to “lessen the status and human… Read More ›

• Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress

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

  By Shaun Waterman Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congress passed this week to make it easier… Read More ›

• Video: India Buying Iranian Oil With Gold Bullion, China May Follow

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

• US-Funded Textbooks Teach Afghan Children Whitewashed History

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

  

  The curriculum in Afghan schools intentionally excludes four decades of war in an effort to “bring people together” by John Glaser Afghan children are being taught with U.S.-funded textbooks explicitly written to exclude four decades of war in an almost… Read More ›

• What’s Missing From Black History Month

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

  

  by JON HOCHSCHARTNER In honor of Black History Month, I’d like to briefly highlight two courageous black socialists, Lucy Parsons and A. Phillip Randolph, whose commitment to justice should inspire a resurgent Occupy movement. Lucy Parsons (c. 1853-1942) Lucy Parsons… Read More ›

• Marines pose with Nazi symbol in Afghanistan

  By The Red Phoenix on February 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  SAN DIEGO (AP) – The U.S. Marine Corps confirmed Thursday that a sniper team in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS. Use of the SS symbol… Read More ›

• Victim in anti-gay video beating speaks out in Atlanta

  By The Red Phoenix on February 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Savage beating caught on camera, posted online Author: By Moni Basu CNN ATLANTA (CNN) – The victim of a vicious beating by a gang of men shouting anti-gay slurs said Wednesday that he wants his attackers to face justice. Brandon… Read More ›

• In Iraq, 65 Executions in First 40 Days of 2012

  By The Red Phoenix on February 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  State executions are just one measure of repression that continues with US support by John Glaser, February 08, 2012 Less than two months into 2012, the Iraqi government has executed at least 65 prisoners, as the country continues to slip… Read More ›

• Cuba Embargo Turns 50

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 8, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by PETER ORSI  HAVANA — When it started, American teenagers were doing “The Twist.” The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents. The world is… Read More ›

• Cuba’s Cure

  By The Red Phoenix on February 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Why is Cuba exporting its health care miracle to the world’s poor? by Sarah van Gelder Cubans say they offer health care to the world’s poor because they have big hearts. But what do they get in return? They live… Read More ›

• Lung cancer vaccine given to 2,000 Cubans

  By The Red Phoenix on February 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Iris de Armas Padrino THE Cuban CIMAVax-EGF vaccine, the only one of its kind in the world for the treatment of advanced lung cancer, has been administered to 2,000-plus Cubans, almost 5,000 of them within the Primary Health Care (APS)… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Cuban Embargo, 50 Years Later

  By The Red Phoenix on February 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Antiwar Activists Across the Country Protest War Against Iran

  By The Red Phoenix on February 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by John Glaser, February 04, 2012 In a national “Day of Mass Action,” Americans protested a seemingly imminent U.S. war against Iran in over 60 cities and towns across the country. In San Francisco, about 600 people participated in the… Read More ›

• Feeling death at our heels: An update from the frontlines of the struggle

  By The Red Phoenix on February 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  from the NCTT Corcoran SHU “Death is impossible for us to fathom; it is so immense, so frightening that we will do almost anything to keep from thinking about it. Society is organized to make death invisible, to keep it… Read More ›

• Menominee Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying “I Love You” in her Native Language

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Levi Rickert, editor-in-chief in Native Challenges. SHAWANO, WISCONSIN – What’s love got to do with it? Not much, especially if you say the words “I love you” in the Menominee language in front of a certain Wisconsin teacher. Seventh grader… Read More ›

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