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• Worth a Thousand Words: Pacifists protect Police Station in Istanbul

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

  

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• Past undetected: Nazi commander found living in US since 1949

  By The Red Phoenix on June 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A top commander of a Nazi SS-led hit squad and officer in an SS Division, accused of burning villages to the ground during World War II, has been living in Minnesota since 1949 after tricking US immigration officials. Michael Karkoc… Read More ›

• Moderate cleric Rouhani elected president of Iran – Interior Minister

  By The Red Phoenix on June 16, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran’s presidential election with just over 50 percent of votes, state TV reported. 72 percent of the 50 million Iranians turned out to vote, said Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar. The Saturday news was reported… Read More ›

• US to give military support to Syrian rebels as ‘red line’ crossed

  By The Red Phoenix on June 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  After concluding that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the country’s insurgency, thus crossing a ‘red line,’ the Obama administration has decided to start sending arms to anti-Assad rebels for the first time, officials say. The Obama administration… Read More ›

• Let’s Be Clear: Establishing a ‘No-Fly Zone’ Is an Act of War

  By The Red Phoenix on June 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The term is a euphemism that obscures the gravity of what its advocates are suggesting — a U.S. air attack on Syria. by CONOR FRIEDERSDORF Kudos to Josh Rogin for breaking the news that “the White House has asked the Pentagon to draw… Read More ›

• Taliban Surge: Afghan Violence Continues to Grow

  By The Red Phoenix on June 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Military Insists 100 Daily Attacks ‘Not a Major Threat’ to Govt by Jason Ditz   A suicide bombing in front of the Supreme Court, just one day after a major attack on the airport in the capital city. Afghanistan is going through… Read More ›

• Wal-Mart destroys the cultural heritage of Mexico

  By The Red Phoenix on June 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured above, is now underneath a Walmart. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit. An archaeologist gives her view. – By Dr Donna Yates As an archaeologist, I welcome the news that “[t]rade unions in Canada,… Read More ›

• Syrian Rebels Execute “Atheist” 15-Year-Old Boy for Blasphemy

  By The Red Phoenix on June 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A 15-year-old atheist boy was reportedly shot in the face in a brutal execution by Syrian rebels, in a crime revealed by an anti-government monitoring group concerned about the actions of some Islamist fighters. Coffee seller Mohammad Qataa was allegedly… Read More ›

• Nicaragua gives Chinese firm contract to build alternative to Panama Canal

  By The Red Phoenix on June 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Project will reinforce China’s growing influence on global trade and weaken US dominance over a key shipping route Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have… Read More ›

• NYPD officers caught on video assaulting gay man

  By The Red Phoenix on June 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  [Trigger Warning: Homophobia] Community activists are furious over a new video that appears to show Brooklyn police roughly detaining a gay man and pepper-spraying him while hurling homophobic slurs at his friends. The incident took place at approximately 4:00 am… Read More ›

• Erdogan pledges ‘no more tolerance’ for protest amid police crackdown

  By The Red Phoenix on June 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Turkey has ‘no more tolerance’ for violent protest, Prime Minister Erdogan told the parliament. He was speaking as police used water cannons and tear gas to take over Taksim Square in Istanbul from anti-government activists. Erdogan lashed out at the… Read More ›

• McCain Excuses Syrian Rebel War Crimes, Suggests He’d Tolerate Extremist Takeover of Syria

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Ben Armbruster Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Monday downplayed atrocities being committed by Syrian rebel forces and suggested that he would be willing to tolerate extremists taking over Syria because they would most likely not be allied with Iran. McCain… Read More ›

• Pablo Neruda May Have Been Killed By a CIA Double Agent

  By The Red Phoenix on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By SANTIAGO WILLS Nearly 40 years after the fact, Pablo Neruda’s death still bewilders Chilean authorities. Neruda, a Nobel laureate described by famed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, as “the first great poet of the Spanish language since the 17th century,”… Read More ›

• Video: Istanbul’s Taksim Square: Riot Police move in on Protesters

  By The Red Phoenix on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

• NSA whistleblower disappears from sight in Hong Kong

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A contractor at the National Security Agency who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday, ahead of a likely push by the U.S. government to… Read More ›

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