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• Palestinian ‘freedom riders’ stopped at Israel’s separation wall

  By The Red Phoenix on November 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Drawing parallels between Israeli policies in the West Bank and the laws in the Jim Crow American South, Palestinian activists emulating the ‘freedom riders’ of 1961 attempted to ride into Jerusalem on an Israeli bus today. Decked-out in T-shirts bearing… Read More ›

• Occupy Wall Street: NYPD attempt media blackout at Zuccotti Park

  By The Red Phoenix on November 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Journalists report aggressive treatment as media blocked from protest camp during surprise police raid New York police attempted to impose a media blackout as they cleared Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park late last night. As police swooped on… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Israeli-occupied territory of the United Nations

  By The Red Phoenix on November 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• Neo-Nazi cell shines light on far-right extremism in Germany

  By The Red Phoenix on November 15, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Neo-Nazi bank robbers found dead last week are suspected in Germany’s worst case of racially motivated killings. Their confessional tape reveals a current of right-wing extremism that politicians have long denied. Ten days ago, police in the town of Eisenach… Read More ›

• Israeli Mossad linked to Iran military blast

  By The Red Phoenix on November 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Israeli media report claims the Mossad was behind ‘huge blast’ at Bid Ganeh base that killed leading Iranian missile researcher A series of news reports linking Israel’s intelligence agency the Mossad to a blast at a military facility in Iran,… Read More ›

• Côte d’Ivoire: Two Oligarchic Factions Tear the Country Apart

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Jean Nanga Two “presidents of the Republic”, the outgoing Laurent Koudou Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Dramane Ouattara, are tearing Ivory Coast apart. Each of the “presidents” relies on real support at the national level. This internal virtually balanced “legitimacy”,… Read More ›

• Occupy Oakland to march in support of UC Berkeley’s general strike

  By The Red Phoenix on November 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Looking to support Occupy Cal and its “fight against police brutality,” Occupy Oakland is planning to march to UC Berkeley to join the campus general strike Tuesday. “We must recognize that the very same OPD officers and Sheriffs who attacked… Read More ›

• The 147 Companies That Control Everything

  By The Red Phoenix on November 13, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who… Read More ›

• Police Move to Evict Occupy Oakland Protesters

  By The Red Phoenix on November 12, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Oakland police handed out eviction notices at an anti-Wall Street encampment and officials elsewhere urged an end to similar gatherings as pressures against Occupy protest sites mounted in the wake of three deaths in different cities, including two by gunfire…. Read More ›

• Soldier found guilty of murdering Afghan Civilians

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) — A military court-martial Thursday found Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs guilty of murdering three Afghan civilians, illegally cutting off pieces of their corpses to keep as “souvenirs” and planting weapons to make the men… Read More ›

• Council of Europe Condemns Deportation of French Roma

  By The Red Phoenix on November 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  France violated the human rights of Roma who were forcibly expelled from the country last year, the Council of Europe said Thursday, asking Paris what steps it was taking to remedy the action. The council, a rights watchdog for its… Read More ›

• US-Trained Mexican Marines Routinely Rape, Torture, Harass and Murder Civilians

  By The Red Phoenix on November 10, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In its report, New York-based Human Rights Watch documents 234 cases which the group says represent serious abuse by U.S.-trained marines and other security forces in several Mexican states. By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times November 10, 2011 Reporting from… Read More ›

• Ohio Votes Against Union-Busting Bill

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – The state’s new collective bargaining law was defeated Tuesday after an expensive union-backed campaign that pitted firefighters, police officers and teachers against the Republican establishment. In a political blow to GOP Gov. John Kasich, voters handily… Read More ›

• Poorest poor in US hits new record: 1 in 15 people

  By Editor-in-Chief on November 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The ranks of America’s poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs… Read More ›

• Remembering America’s Eugenics Program

  By The Red Phoenix on November 7, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks Elaine Riddick was 13 years old when she got pregnant after being raped by a neighbor in Winfall, N.C., in 1967. The state ordered that… Read More ›

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