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• Black Slaves, Freedmen Risked Their Lives to Work As Union Spies During the Civil War

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

  

  Freed slaves became spies They were made invisible by the color of their skin. They could not be seen because their enemy was blinded by ignorance. Federal troops sent African Americans, former slaves, into the Confederate breach to capture information… Read More ›

• Political Cartoons: 9/11 – 10 Years On, 10 Toons

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

  

• Worth a Thousand Words: Casualties of 9/11

  By The Red Phoenix on September 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

• Remembering Chile’s 9/11

  By The Red Phoenix on September 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Paul Street “Close to Perfect:” A Different, Bloodier Nine-Eleven The events of September 11th were horrific, tragic, and criminal on a monumental scale. Planes flew low over an American nation’s leading city. Buildings erupted in flames. There was an… Read More ›

• Operation Torture

  By The Red Phoenix on September 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Ten Years On by VIJAY PRASHAD “No state shall expel, return (refouler) or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” United Nations Convention… Read More ›

• Chemical Warfare At Its Worst

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Harrowing Legacy of Agent Orange by N.D. JAYAPRAKASH The shocking images of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York is well-etched in the minds of almost everyone who had access to a TV set. Similarly,… Read More ›

• EMERGENCY: Act NOW to STOP THE SEPT 21st EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!

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

  

  ACT NOW! All anti-death penalty activists in the U.S. and worldwide should prepare NOW to organize coordinated actions before Sept. 21. The IAC will send out a proposed date for these actions in conjunction with Georgia activists. SIGN ONLINE PETITION… Read More ›

• NAACP Condemns Scheduled Execution of Troy Davis

  By The Red Phoenix on September 9, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) strongly condemned the scheduled execution of Troy Anthony Davis. The NAACP believes that there is too much doubt surrounding the conviction of Mr. Davis, whose… Read More ›

• Longshoremen storm Washington State Port

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

  

  LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. Six… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: The blood of the Mavi Marmara martyrs claim JUSTICE!

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

  

• Happy Corporation Day!

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

  

  Faked Stats, No Jobs by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS It is Labor Day, 2011, but labor has nothing to celebrate. The jobs that once gave American workers a stake in capitalism have left and gone away. Corporations in pursuit of near-term… Read More ›

• We Do the Work

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 5, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by DAVID MACARAY Whenever Labor Day rolls around I get filled with subversive thoughts about the unfairness of it all. While it’s the workers who keep the operation going, it’s management who gets the credit. It’s management who gets the… Read More ›

• Libyan rebels round up black Africans, place them in detention camps

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

  

  By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces and armed civilians are rounding up thousands of black Libyans and migrants from sub-Sahara Africa, accusing them of fighting for ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi and holding them in makeshift… Read More ›

• WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, air strike called in to cover up evidence

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike… Read More ›

• How US firms profited from torture flights

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Court documents illustrate how US contracted out secret rendition transportation to a network of private companies The scale of the CIA’s rendition programme has been laid bare in court documents that illustrate in minute detail how the US contracted out… Read More ›

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