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• Reagan Backed Ex-Dictator Jorge Videla and Argentina’s Dirty War

  By The Red Phoenix on May 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla’s key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored… Read More ›

• 78 trans murders in 2013, mutilation common

  By The Red Phoenix on May 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BY RAKSHITA PATEL New figures claim 78 trans people have already been killed in 13 countries this year and 1,233 in 59 countries since January 2008 New figures published today show 78 trans people were murdered in 13 countries from 1… Read More ›

• “Don’t interact, don’t talk, they are not humans” – Gitmo guard’s basic orders

  By The Red Phoenix on May 23, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the methods used to extract information from Muslim inmates in Guantanamo was to apply sexual interrogation techniques, Terry Holdbrooks, former guard at the camp has told RT. Such a degradation methods, the former US soldier said, were used… Read More ›

• Photos: Chicago police spying on dissent a year after mandate of NATO surveillance team ended

  By The Red Phoenix on May 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Undercover: Police Officer Connected to “NATO 5” Case Still Spying on Protest in Chicago

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Steve Horn and Chris Geovanis On March 27, Chicago teachers and their supporters – including parents, students and community residents – rallied against the largest mass public school closure in US history. News of the mobilization sparked huge public interest before the demonstration… Read More ›

• France: Far right activist commits suicide in Notre Dame following legalisation of equal marriage

  By The Red Phoenix on May 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Joseph Patrick McCormick Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has been evacuated, after a former far-right activist committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after writing a blog post slamming France’s recently passed equal marriage bill. Dominique Venner, a famous… Read More ›

• In Colorado, Blacks Make Up 4 Percent Of The Population And 100 Percent Of Death Row

  By The Red Phoenix on May 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Nicole Flatow In March, Colorado came close to becoming the 19th state to abolish the death penalty, but the bill failed after Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) voiced opposition and suggested a possible veto. A few months later, Colorado’s death penalty is still firmly in… Read More ›

• Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns

  By The Red Phoenix on May 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Dana El Baltaji Communities inhabited by Shiite Muslims and President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority will be “wiped off the map” if the strategic city of Al-Qusair in central Syria falls to government troops, rebel forces said. “We don’t want this to happen,… Read More ›

• “Environmental genocide”: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline

  By The Red Phoenix on May 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to ‘environmental genocide.’ Native Americans are opposed to… Read More ›

• Red lines and other double standards

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Stephen Gowans According to the White House, Israel has the right to defend itself (1). I would argue that it doesn’t. Based on the theft of another people’s land and denial of their right to return to the homes… Read More ›

• Outrage over disgusting “cripple Stephen Hawking” jokes after he joins boycott of Israel

  By The Red Phoenix on May 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By: Charlotte Meredith WORLD renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has faced a barrage of vile abuse today from people furious over his boycott of Israel. The tirade of criticism came after the highly-respected Cambridge professor joined an academic embargo by refusing… Read More ›

• Analyzing Barack Obama

  By The Red Phoenix on May 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Among the many accusations leveled against Barack Obama by the political right, few have become so commonly accepted as the claim that he is a socialist and even a Marxist. Even in what passes for mainstream political discourse one can… Read More ›

• Almost half of the world’s food thrown away, report finds

  By The Red Phoenix on May 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Rebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondent Figures from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers show as much as 2bn tonnes of food never makes it on to a plate As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to… Read More ›

• Rebels film execution of 11 Syrian soldiers, as Obama continues anti-Assad rhetoric

  By The Red Phoenix on May 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As a new video is published showing fighters of the Al Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front in Syria executing 11 men they say are Bashar Assad’s soldiers, Obama talks to Turkey’s Erdogan, renewing threats of action against the Syrian government. The video,… Read More ›

• Map: Closing Schools Are Overwhelmingly in Minority Neighborhoods

  By The Red Phoenix on May 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve written before about the unequal geographical distribution of D.C. Public Schools’ planned school closures, with wards 5 and 7 bearing the brunt. But here’s a map that puts the closures in a new light: The map was created by University of… Read More ›

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