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• Cheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Ignites Racist Hate Storm

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

  by Jorge Rivas We’ve seen interracial couples on television for decades but corporate companies have largely stayed away from including them in advertising. The sitcom “I Love Lucy,” which premiered in 1951, was the first television program to feature an interracial couple starring… Read More ›

• Turkish union to strike from Tuesday over unrest

  By The Red Phoenix on June 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  ISTANBUL, June 3 (Reuters) – Turkey’s Public Workers Unions Confederation (KESK) said on Monday it would hold a “warning strike” on June 4-5 to protest at a crackdown on anti-government protests over the last four days. “The state terror implemented… Read More ›

• Violence Soars in Iraq: Over 1,000 Killed in Month of May

  By The Red Phoenix on June 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  High Death Tolls Not Seen Since 2007 by Jason Ditz With the month of May coming to a close, the trend of worsening violence in Iraq became all the more apparent. After April being the highest death toll in years with several… Read More ›

• Pots, pans and the mundane terror at Taksim

  By The Red Phoenix on June 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  On Friday I picked up my Turkish residence permit, breathed a sigh of relief, then came home to Taksim and was promptly tear gassed. I hadn’t joined the Gezi clashes, nor was I up close trying to get some citizen… Read More ›

• Syria calls on Turkish PM to resign over crackdown

  By The Red Phoenix on June 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Syria gleefully turned the tables on Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday over his response to anti-government demonstrations, calling on him to halt the violent repression of peaceful protests or resign. Erdogan, a former ally of Bashar al-Assad, turned against… Read More ›

• Updates From A Comrade in Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Update as of 6 am (PST)  Due to a media blackout, the following updates are hard to confirm, but come directly from comrades on the ground in an undisclosed major city. Vicious attacks from state security Police chased protesters towards… Read More ›

• Thousands of protesters pack Istanbul’s Taksim Square, over 900 arrested across Turkey

  By The Red Phoenix on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Police in Istanbul have withdrawn from Taksim Square, allowing the mass protest to continue unabated, Turkish media report. Istanbul and Ankara are entering the third day of violent protests, with tear gas and water cannon deployed and over 900 arrested…. Read More ›

• Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a “Dehumanizing Stare”

  By The Red Phoenix on June 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Steven Hsieh Grown police officers allege that the unarmed teen looked at them funny. New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing… Read More ›

• Review of “The Great Gatsby” (2013)

  By The Red Phoenix on May 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Introduction: Classic Literature Doesn’t Always Make a Classic Film Whenever a classic work of fiction is adapted for the silver screen, there is both a feeling of excitement and dread. Sometimes an essential work of literature like Les Misérables becomes… Read More ›

• U.S. senator McCain pictured with Syrian rebel kidnapper

  By The Red Phoenix on May 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain was photographed during a trip to Syria with a man implicated in the kidnapping by Syrian rebels of 11 Lebanese Shi’ite pilgrims a year ago, a Lebanese newspaper said on Thursday. McCain, a… Read More ›

• Syria Endgame Approaching Fast

  By The Red Phoenix on May 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by SHAMUS COOKE The Fate of the Middle East in the Balance   The tempo of events in Syria has accelerated in recent weeks. The government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war… Read More ›

• How “Memorial Day” was stripped of its African-American Roots

  By The Red Phoenix on May 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Written by: Ben Becker What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that… Read More ›

• 1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes: America Is Perpetually at War with Its Own People

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

  

  By Adam Hudson From the war on drugs to the war on terror, law enforcement’s battle against minorities serves as pacification. Police officers, security guards, or self-appointed vigilantes extrajudicially killed at least 313 African-Americans in 2012 according to a recent study. This means a black person… Read More ›

• Mass graves of Palestinians discovered

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

  

  Mass graves have been discovered in the historical cemetery of Al-Kazakhana in Jaffa, Al-Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowments and Heritage announced on Monday. The graves contain the remains of Palestinians killed by Jewish militias in 1948 during the Nakba (Catastrophe)…. Read More ›

• First indigenous map of its kind; U.S. map displays “Our own names and locations”

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

  

  By Monica Brown, Tulalip News Writer Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee Indian, has taken it upon himself to create a map that shows the Tribal nations of the U.S. prior to European contact. The map is of the contiguous United States… Read More ›

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