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• Editorial: The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Todd Gitlin and Tom Engelhardt Back in the early 1970s, I worked for Pacific News Service (PNS), a small antiwar media outfit that operated out of the Bay Area Institute (BAI), a progressive think tank in San Francisco.  The… Read More ›

• George Zimmerman ‘Complained Frequently About Black People’

  By The Red Phoenix on June 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  AFRICANGLOBE – The neighbourhood watch vigilante accused of murdering an unarmed Black teenager complained frequently to authorities about Black people in his neighbourhood, it emerged. George Zimmerman, who is on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin, called police in Florida 46 times in… Read More ›

• How Fast Food Companies Steal Workers’ Pay

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Seth Freed Wessler Olivia Roffle has worked at Papa John’s Pizza in St. Louis, Mo., for three years and she hates it. “It’s just not an enjoyable place to work,” she says. The 23 year old, who is enrolled in… Read More ›

• Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act Decision Unpopular: Poll

  By The Red Phoenix on June 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Ariel Edwards-Levy Americans have mixed feelings about the Supreme Court’s latest rulings, with a majority disapproving of its opinion on the Voting Rights Act, but in favor of two pro-gay marriage opinions, according to an ABC/Washington Post poll released Wednesday. Just… Read More ›

• Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage hailed as historic victory

  By The Red Phoenix on June 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Michael Pearson A deeply divided Supreme Court nudged the nation toward broad recognition of same-sex marriage on Wednesday in rulings that advocates hailed as a “joyous occasion” — but still left many questions unanswered. Voting 5-4 in each of two… Read More ›

• Chinese Investors Pursue U.S. Property Deals

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By JULIE CRESWELL First, it was the Japanese. Moneymen from Tokyo blew into the United States to buy famous pieces of the American landscape, from Rockefeller Center in New York to the Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. Now, about a… Read More ›

• Nelson Mandela, in his own words

  By The Red Phoenix on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Fight Back News Service is circulating some quotes from the icon of the South African anti-apartheid movement. The following quotes are from Mandela’s 1990 speech at a Johannesburg rally to re-launch the South African Communist Party. Nelson Mandela: The ANC [African… Read More ›

• The mass protests in Brazil and the crisis of revolutionary leadership

  By The Red Phoenix on June 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Over the past week, Brazil has witnessed its largest protests since the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. This eruption of mass struggles has exposed, above all, the crisis of revolutionary leadership in the working class. The initial trigger… Read More ›

• The Quote That Should End the Trayvon Martin Trial

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By John H. Richardson George Zimmerman is going to be found guilty. All the evidence you need — all the evidence the cops needed — is right there in the interrogation they did with him three days after the shooting. The only… Read More ›

• In Suicide Note, Iraq War Veteran Says He Was Forced to Participate In War Crimes

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Rania Khalek On June 10, 2013, 30-year-old Iraq War veteran Daniel Somers killed himself after writing a powerful letter to his family explaining his reasons for doing so. “My mind is a wasteland filled with visions of incredible horror,… Read More ›

• U.S. right to arm Syrian rebels, says Israeli president

  By The Red Phoenix on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli President Shimon Peres has thrown his weight behind U.S. plans to arm Syrian rebels, shrugging off fears the weapons could be turned on Israel and exacerbate the conflict. In a wide-ranging interview with… Read More ›

• Protester killed, dozens injured as Brazil police face off with a million in 100 cities

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

  

  An 18-year-old protester has been killed and dozens injured as massive protests continue in Brazil’s cities. Over a million people have flooded the streets of the country on Thursday. Mass protests continued throughout Brazil Thursday as hundreds of thousands assembled… Read More ›

• Philadelphia Closes 23 Schools, New $400 Million Prison Being Built

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Michael Allen Philadelphia officials are closing almost two dozen schools and decimating the budgets of the remaining schools under a so-called “doomsday” education plan. However, amid all these cuts for education, the state of Pennsylvania is building a new $400… Read More ›

• Statement of Eduardo Artes, First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) on the demonstrations in Brazil

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

  

  DISCONTENT IN BRAZIL Eduardo Artes First Secretary of the Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) PC (AP) June 21, 2013 General Aspects The media shows us large demonstrations, bonfires and confrontations in Brazil. These are caused by the popular discontent; rejecting… Read More ›

• Iraq, 2013: The Horrors Remain the Same — Rape, Executions and Torture Abound

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

  

  [Trigger Warning: Graphic Discussion of Sexual Violence and Torture] In today’s Iraq, it is unfortunately all too easy to find Iraqis who have had loved ones who have been detained and tortured, and the trend is increasing. Baghdad – Heba al-Shamary… Read More ›

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