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• US report of border attack denounced by Pakistan

  By The Red Phoenix on January 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Declan Walsh ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military has issued an uncompromising formal rejection of the United States military’s report last month on a contentious border exchange in which 24 Pakistani soldiers died, dealing a fresh blow to US hopes of reviving a… Read More ›

• Myths About Socialism: Common Arguments Defeated

  By The Red Phoenix on January 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  If you’ve expressed interest in socialism at some point in your life, you’ve probably had an encounter ( it can be at a family dinner, at school, the break room at work or any number of other examples) that goes… Read More ›

• Oakland police arrest about 400 Occupy protesters

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Editor’s note: the total estimate has risen since this article was published to 400 arrested. OAKLAND (AP) – About 300 people were arrested Saturday during a chaotic day of Occupy protests that saw demonstrators break into City Hall and burn… Read More ›

• India Factory Workers Revolt, Kill Company President

  By The Red Phoenix on January 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Workers at the Regency Ceramics factory in India raided the home of their boss, and beat him senseless with lead pipes after a wage dispute turned ugly. The workers were enraged enough to kill Regency’s president K. C. Chandrashekhar after… Read More ›

• Opposition rally organizers jailed in Kazakhstan

  By The Red Phoenix on January 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Some 300 opposition activists staged a rare rally in Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Saturday to protest recent elections and the violent suppression of a group of oil workers. Hours later, speakers at… Read More ›

• NYPD Admits Using Anti-Muslim Film for Training Nearly 1,500 Officers

  By The Red Phoenix on January 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Film Accuses All Muslims of Plotting to Overthrow US by Jason Ditz, January 24, 2012 Last year, the New York Police Dept. was caught in an ugly scandal when the Village Voice reported it showed a 72-minute film titled The… Read More ›

• Secrets of the billionaire backing Gingrich’s shot at the White House

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Sheldon Adelson is not running for office – but his cash could swing Tuesday’s Florida primary Paul Harris Abraham Foxman, the amiably chatty director of the Jewish civil rights group, the Anti-Defamation League, has a story to tell about his… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: One Year Later, Remember the Martyrs of Egypt ‘s Jan. 25th Revolution

  By The Red Phoenix on January 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

• Former U.S.-Backed Guatemalan Dictator Faces Genocide Trial

  By The Red Phoenix on January 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  By Mariano Castillo, CNN (CNN) — A Guatemalan judge has ordered the country’s former dictator to stand trial on charges that he was responsible for atrocities committed during his rule. Efrain Rios Montt will remain under house arrest while prosecutors… Read More ›

• Acta protests break out as EU states sign up to treaty

  By The Red Phoenix on January 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  MEPs of 21 EU states, including the UK, have signed off on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement The UK and 21 other European Union member states on Thursday signed an international copyright agreement treaty called Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), sparking… Read More ›

• Cuba Announces Release of the World’s First Lung Cancer Vaccine

  By The Red Phoenix on January 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  HAVANA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — Cuban medical authorities have launched the sales of the world’s first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, local officials said on Tuesday. The CimaVax-EGF vaccine, as a result of a 25-year research into diseases related to… Read More ›

• SOPA’s big brother signed by EU nations amid widespread protests

  By The Red Phoenix on January 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Polish citizens take to the streets in protest at ACTA By Jennifer Baker IDG News Service – The European Union signed up to the controversial Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on Thursday despite widespread opposition, particularly in Poland, where people… Read More ›

• Aid group quits Libyan prisons over torture

  By The Red Phoenix on January 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  (CBS/AP) BENGHAZI, Libya – The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said detainees are being tortured and denied urgent medical care. Additionally, Amnesty… Read More ›

• Libya: UN alarmed over failure to stop torture of detainees

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Medicins Sans Frontieres, the medical charity, is suspending operations in Libyan detention centres because they were being asked to make torture victims fit for further interrogation. The UN has expressed its alarm over the failure of the Libyan government [the… Read More ›

• Cuba registers world’s first lung cancer vaccine

  By The Red Phoenix on January 25, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  South Journal, HAVANA—Cuba registered the first therapeutic vaccine in the world against advanced lung cancer. Over 1 000 patients have been administered the vaccine known as CIMAVAX-EGF. Specialist Gisela Gonzalez, leader of the project at the Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center,… Read More ›

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