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• Homeless People Under Attack in Capitalism

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

  

  Fullerton Homeless Man Kelly Thomas begged for his life from ‘menacing’ officer, D.A. says Scared and bleeding, Kelly Thomas begged for his life to no avail as Fullerton police officers beat him and Tasered him in a violent confrontation that… Read More ›

• MLK Day: the Lessons of Pacifism & the Civil Rights Movement

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

  

  Today is the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the United States. While it is ostensibly celebrated to promote the Civil Rights Movement, one wonders why MLK, among all other more active and progressive civil rights… Read More ›

• Tunisians Mark First Anniversary of Ben Ali Ouster

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

  

  Lisa Bryant Arab leaders and top officials are in Tunisia to share in celebrations marking the North African country’s one-year anniversary of the ousting of strong-arm President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Tunisia’s revolution sparked popular protests across the Arab… Read More ›

• Qatar calls for a U.S. invasion of Syria

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

  

  Syria crisis: Qatar calls for Arabs to send in troops The ruler of the Gulf state of Qatar has said Arab countries should send troops into Syria to stop government forces killing civilians there. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani… Read More ›

• Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs was described by one of his comrades as homicidal, as “evil incarnate”

  By Editor-in-Chief on January 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Leader of “Kill Team” Pleads Not Guilty by John Glaser, October 31, 2011 The US Army staff sergeant in charge of the notorious “Kill Team” in Afghanistan admitted in court on Monday to cutting the fingers off of the corpses… Read More ›

• Over 47,500 Drug War Deaths, Mexico Says

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

  

  (AP) MEXICO CITY — Two decapitated bodies were found inside a burning SUV early Wednesday at the entrance to one of Mexico’s most luxurious malls, feeding fears drug violence is infiltrating privileged realms previously thought safe. Police recovered the mutilated… Read More ›

• CIA, Other Spy Agencies Spent $54.6 Billion In Secret For 2011

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

  

  WASHINGTON — Congress appropriated a whopping $54.6 billion for classified intelligence operations in 2011, an increase over the previous two years. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — whose office was created after the 9/11 attacks to oversee the government’s… Read More ›

• Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, Washington

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

  

  Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, Washington ILWU rank and file, Occupies in Longview, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, LA and other West Coast Occupies are organizing to blockade a grain ship coming to Longview. This ship is intended to load scab… Read More ›

• Scientists Conclude UN Soldiers Brought Cholera to Haiti

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

  

  By MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS and RYM MOMTAZ Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera — a super bug — into the Western Hemisphere for the first time.  The vicious form of… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Boiling point of Persian Gulf

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

  

• Marine Corps probe after video emerges showing American troops ‘urinating on dead Afghan bodies’

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

  

  The anonymous person who put it online wrote, ‘Scout sniper team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune peeing on dead talibans’ By Daniel Bates Last updated at 9:15 PM on 11th January 2012 The U.S. Marine… Read More ›

• Marines: Video shows troops urinating on corpses

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

  Editor’s note: This post contains language and imagery that some might find offensive. By Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, NBC News A video posted on YouTube shows four combat Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead men in Afghanistan,… Read More ›

• Obama to Send US Troops to South Sudan

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

  

  Troops Sent Over ‘Recent Outbreaks of Violence’ by Jason Ditz, January 10, 2012 Citing recent ethnic violence and with the apparent certainty that every nation on the planet needs at least a few US boots on the ground, President Obama… Read More ›

• ILWU Pres. McEllrath: ‘Prepare to take action when EGT vessel arrives’

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

  

  Click here to download a pdf of this letter. January 3, 2012 To: All Longshore, Clerk, and Walking Boss/Foreman Locals Brothers and Sisters: We are currently engaged in a labor dispute with one of our employers, EGT, in the Pacific… Read More ›

• N.C. sterilization panel: Victims deserve $50K

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

  

  RALEIGH, N.C. – People sterilized against their will under a discredited North Carolina state program should each be paid $50,000, a task force voted Tuesday, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of a once-common public… Read More ›

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