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• 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 ›

• Stop the U.S. War Against Libya and Bahrain!

  By The Red Phoenix on March 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The International Action Center calls on all anti-war and social justice activists to call Emergency Response STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN actions in their areas on Friday, March 18 or Saturday, March 19, or to mobilize support… Read More ›

• Imperialists Seek War With Libya

  By The Red Phoenix on March 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  From The Nation: The UN Security Council on Thursday authorised the use of “all necessary measures” to protect civilians in Libya, paving the way for air and naval attacks against the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as he vowed to… Read More ›

• A Brief History of the Spanish Civil War

  By Alfonso Casal on March 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) has come to symbolize the clash between the ideologies of liberalism, socialism and communism versus conservatism, traditionalism and fascism. Spain, at the dawn of the 20th century, was caught in a crisis of… Read More ›

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