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• What a Government Shutdown Means for Working People

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

  

  Barring a last minute agreement, the federal government will shutdown all services it deems “non-essential” on April 9th, making this the first time such a shutdown has occurred since 1995. While the Republican legislators, in particular the Tea Party faction,… Read More ›

• Libya and the World of Oil

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

  

  By Noam Chomsky Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor came to an end. The chief prosecutor, U.S. law professor David Crane, informed The… Read More ›

• Serbia-Kosovo Talks Must Not Forget the Roma

  By The Red Phoenix on April 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Officials from Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels last week for a second round of negotiations aimed at establishing a formal relationship. Because of the potential for the talks to be politically fraught, negotiators have agreed to limit themselves to… Read More ›

• Trial opens for NYPD cops Kenneth Moreno, Franklin Mata accused of raping East Village woman

  By The Red Phoenix on April 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  A city cop on trial for allegedly raping a drunk East Village woman is claiming he didn’t have sex with her – he only counseled her about the dangers of booze. Officer Kenneth Moreno “kissed her shoulder” and rubbed the… Read More ›

• Review of Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise” (The Chinese)

  By The Red Phoenix on April 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Film Synopsis La Chinoise follows five young people in late 1960’s France who form a revolutionary Maoist organization and live together in a loft. They name their organization “Aden Arabie” (English: Aden, Arabia), named after a novel by French writer… Read More ›

• Israel Threatens “Unilateral Steps” if UN Recognizes Palestinian State

  By The Red Phoenix on March 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Israel informed the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council last week, as well as several other prominent European Union countries, that if the Palestinian Authority persists in its efforts to gain recognition in September as a state within… Read More ›

• Report on the Anti-War Protest in Atlanta

  By The Red Phoenix on March 26, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  On the afternoon of the 19th of March, 2011, determined people from all walks of life gathered together at the Midtown Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia to protest the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya. Represented were many groups from… Read More ›

• The Deindustrialization of Detroit

  By The Red Phoenix on March 25, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Detroit lost 25% of its population in the last decade Detroit, which reached a population peak of 1.85 million residents in 1950, was once the fourth-largest city in the U.S. Detroit registered the largest population decrease among all United States… Read More ›

• Libya and the Suspicious Rush to War

  By The Red Phoenix on March 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  An editorial from the Guardian: After many more deaths we are likely to see the partition of Libya – why has there been such a consensus for this military action? The House of Commons is debating the government stance on UN… Read More ›

• Murderer of the Miners: Don Blankenship & Massey Energy

  By The Red Phoenix on March 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  There are those who think of the trade union struggle as the workers’ fight for better wages and benefits, but there are times when this struggle is a matter of life and death. The mining industry is a perfect example… Read More ›

• Kansas Republican Suggests Shooting Immigrants from Helicopters

  By The Red Phoenix on March 22, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Lawrence Journal World reports: A legislator said Monday it might be a good idea to control illegal immigration the way the feral hog population has been controlled — with hunters shooting from helicopters. … After one of the committee… Read More ›

• Photos show US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead civilians

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The face of Jeremy Morlock, a young US soldier, grins at the camera, his hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth he and his colleagues have just killed in an act military prosecutors say was premeditated… Read More ›

• Report: Hundreds of British SAS Soldiers Were Operating in Libya for Weeks

  By The Red Phoenix on March 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Sunday Mirror reported that British operatives had been active in Libya for weeks before the current air war: Hundreds of British SAS soldiers have been operating with rebel groups inside Libya for three weeks, the Sunday Mirror can reveal… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: No War on Libya!

  By The Red Phoenix on March 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

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• Operation Odyssey Dawn: Libya to get the “Kosovo Treatment”

  By Victor Vaughn on March 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Another “Humanitarian Bombing” – First Yugoslavia, Now Libya President Barack Obama has now made the exact same speech Bill Clinton made on network news back in 1999 – promising “no ground forces” in the next American-led war of aggression. U.N…. Read More ›

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