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• Florida Teen Dies In Jail After Being Arrested For Marijuana

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

  

  Eric Perez died after suffering all night long, screaming and throwing up. An 18-year-old Florida man has died after suffering a medical emergency while in jail on a marijuana charge. Records show that Superintendent Anthony Flowers of the Palm Beach… Read More ›

• 45,000 Verizon Workers Go On Strike

  By The Red Phoenix on August 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  45,000 Walk Out After Negotiations Fail NEW YORK — Forty-five thousand unionized Verizon Communications Inc. workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., went on strike Sunday after negotiations with the telecommunications company over a new labor contract fizzled. The contract expired… Read More ›

• Hiroshima Day 2003: Secret Meeting on the Privatization of Nuclear War

  By The Red Phoenix on August 8, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by Michel Chossudovsky At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout over… Read More ›

• Israel Protests: 270,000 Demonstrate Against Rising Cost Of Living

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

  

  JERUSALEM — At least a quarter of a million Israelis, fed up with the mounting cost of living, poured into the streets of the country’s major cities Saturday night to demand that their leaders address their plight – and proving… Read More ›

• BP executives may face jail for manslaughter over Gulf disaster

  By The Red Phoenix on August 6, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Managers of BP could face manslaughter charges when prosecutors in the United States finally conclude their criminal investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last April that killed 11 rig workers and triggered the worst oil… Read More ›

• Video: General Secretary of Pan-African Democratic Movement talks about genocide committed by rebels against Black Libyans

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

• Review of Sun Rise Above’s “Every Day I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism”

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

  

  Self-described Hiphopraganda-ist Sun Rise Above is one of the more distinguished left-wing artists gaining ascendancy in the underground scene. His new album Every Day I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism (2011) gives a clear picture of what… Read More ›

• Review of “Germany & the Secret Genocide”

  By The Red Phoenix on August 3, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  It is often said that history is written by the victor. When it comes to the recollections of the past championed within bourgeois society, objective historical realities are obscured (if not omitted or re-written) when the facts and lessons to… Read More ›

• A People’s History of the Egyptian Revolution

  By The Red Phoenix on August 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  By Rami El-Amine and Mostafa Henaway No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive… Read More ›

• Germany Joins NATO in Libya

  By The Red Phoenix on July 30, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position. After just over 100 days of… Read More ›

• Videos: US and NATO-supported Libyan “Rebels” Lynch Black Libyans

  By The Red Phoenix on July 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  The US Corporate Media, and the US government, continue to methodically hide, from the public, the fact that the Libyan rebels they are supporting have been, and continue to, rape, mutilate and brutally murder Black Africans within Libya. The rebels… Read More ›

• Rape Cop Reactions: Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata Got Off, But Won’t Be Forgotten

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

  

  We watched the rape trial of NYPD officers Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata with our eyes half-covered, anticipating ugliness. And indeed it was icky, with slut-shaming and anything else to undermine the accuser. Yesterday came the verdict — not guilty… Read More ›

• Michelle Bachmann, Slavery & Dog Whistle Politics

  By The Red Phoenix on July 27, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Although the term “dog whistle politics” originated in the Australian press during the 1990s, it has been an increasingly prominent feature of American politics for some time now. The term refers to using coded language which holds little or no… Read More ›

• Obama’s Speech & the History of “Compromise”

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

  

  Compromise is a Dirty Word In the circus of bourgeois politics in our two-party electoral system, we often hear a concept fetishized to the highest heavens. The term “bi-partisanship” is a quality of political actors that often surfaces in elections,… Read More ›

• Norwegian Massacre Gunman was a Right-Wing Extremist who hated Muslims

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

  

  Suspect named by Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik Police believe he is not connected to Islamist organisations Claims he boasted online about having talks with English Defence League ‘Loner’ lived with mother in a wealthy suburb and is well-educated… Read More ›

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