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• Alleged US security officials said NSA leaker, journalist should be ‘disappeared’ – report

  By The Red Phoenix on June 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A US editor has alleged he overheard security officials saying that the NSA leaker and the Guardian columnist who broke his story should be “disappeared.” Leaker Edward Snowden said that American spies often prefer silencing targets over due process. Follow… Read More ›

• Video: The “Free Syrian Army” has a Brigade Named “Osama Bin Laden”

  By The Red Phoenix on June 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

• NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

  By The Red Phoenix on June 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by… Read More ›

• Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist

  By Editor-in-Chief on June 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Sharmine Narwani The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective lexicon. In any debate at university, when a Zionist was out of arguments,… Read More ›

• Black Man Sentenced to 50 Years for Stealing Ribs

  By The Red Phoenix on June 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Willie Smith Ward of Waco, TX was sentenced to 50 years for tucking a rack of  ribs under his shirt inside of a local grocery store in September 2011. The jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court were less than impressed… Read More ›

• Syrian army takes last militant bastion near Qusayr

  By The Red Phoenix on June 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Syrian army has retaken control of last militant bastion near Qusayr, bringing its operation closer to a successful end in this region. Government forces restored security in the village of Eastern Bweida on Saturday. On Friday, Syrian troops managed to… Read More ›

• Native American student denied high school diploma for wearing tribal feather

  By The Red Phoenix on June 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Arturo Garcia A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage. “I don’t think it’s fair at all,” 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer told WPMI-TV. “I feel like… Read More ›

• Saudi writer urges groping of women to make them stay at home

  By The Red Phoenix on June 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A Saudi writer with more than 97,000 Twitter followers has been promoting the molestation of women on under the hash-tag #harass_female_cashiers to pressure for Saudi women to stay at home in order to protect their chastity. Abdullah Mohammad Al Dawood,… Read More ›

• Police Retreat as Protests Expand Through Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on June 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By TIM ARANGO ISTANBUL — Violent protests against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan engulfed Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, on Saturday and spread to other cities, including the capital, Ankara, as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the… Read More ›

• NATO data: Assad winning the war for Syrians’ hearts and minds

  By The Red Phoenix on June 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — After two years of civil war, support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was said to have sharply increased. NATO has been studying data that told of a sharp rise in support for Assad. The… Read More ›

• Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

  By The Red Phoenix on June 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BY KIRSTEN WEST Former Ward 2 Councilman and Chokwe Lumumba, 65, is the new mayor of  Jackson, Miss., winning the general election with 87 percent of the vote, reports Fight Back! News. “I’m just delighted. I feel wonderfully well about the people and their… Read More ›

• Taksim Square Protests: 13 Photos Showing Severity of the Protests

  By The Red Phoenix on June 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Christian Rice Protesters flooded Istanbul’s Taksim Square Friday after heavy-handed police tactics and increasing dissatisfaction with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who some say is becoming increasingly authoritarian. The mainstream media has yet to highlight the protests. Meanwhile,… Read More ›

• Turkey Protests Continue to Surge: Over 1,700 Arrested

  By The Red Phoenix on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  235 Separate Rallies Reported Nationwide by Jason Ditz Protests continue to grow in Turkey, with a third day of rallies seeing tens of thousands of people attending at least 90 separate rallies in the nation’s four largest cities, and 235… Read More ›

• Video: This is how we unite, this is how we struggle

  By The Red Phoenix on June 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

• The day the people of Turkey rose up — in pictures

  By The Red Phoenix on June 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Police forced to retreat from Istanbul’s Taksim square as protests against the authoritarian neoliberalism of Erdogan’s proto-Islamist government grow. For more background, read a solidarity statement here. For an update on the situation on the ground in Istanbul, check our latest… Read More ›

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