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• Police accused of humiliating transgender woman during Soho Arrest

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

  

  Police officers allegedly ripped a wig from a transgender woman’s head and emptied the contents of her handbag onto the street. Video footage has emerged of officers holding down Jose Dos Santos, 49, as they arrested her on Soho’s Wardour… Read More ›

• British have invaded nine out of ten countries – so look out Luxembourg

  By Editor-in-Chief on February 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jasper Copping Every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of British rule. But that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach… Read More ›

• White South African Govt Minister Says Blacks Have No Claim to South African Land

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

  

  AFRICANGLOBE – South Africa’s deputy agriculture minister Pieter Mulder gave the hornet’s nest of land ownership a sharp political poke in the Country’s Parliament this week. He suggested that Black “Bantu-speaking” people had no historical claim to 40 percent of South… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Yoani Sánchez Powered By…?

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

  

• To cut Afghan red tape, bribery is the norm

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

  

  KABUL — In a country where Western accusations of corruption have been lobbed at high-ranking officials and public institutions, the malfeasance that drives Afghans against their own government happens every day on a much smaller scale. Forget special investigations and glossy reports… Read More ›

• ‘New race for colonies begins in Africa’

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

  Earlier this week, France sent its special forces to Cameroon in search of seven French tourists who were kidnapped in the north of the country on Tuesday. Paris accused the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram of being behind the abduction…. Read More ›

• Connecticut cops pay $3.5 million after killing unarmed man in SWAT raid

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

  Three-and-a-half million dollars will be paid out to the family of a Connecticut man who was killed in a poorly-executed SWAT raid nearly five years ago. As part of a settlement in a case involving the 2008 death of 33-year-old… Read More ›

• US senator says 4,700 killed in drone strikes

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

  Graham’s office insisted that the senator did not disclose any classified information [EPA] Revelation by Lindsey Graham marks the first time any US official has given a number for drone fatalities. A US senator has said that an estimated 4,700… Read More ›

• Obama moves to keep kill list memos secret forever

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

  Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Brendan Smialowski) United States President Barack Obama has no plans to show Congress the legal rulings that justify his use of drones to kill US citizens, despite urging from members of his own political party…. Read More ›

• Going commando: IDF ‘hitman/assassin’ posts disturbing pictures on FB, Instagram

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

  image from http://electronicintifada.net   IDF is yet again on the defensive over its troops’ use of social media, after an elite regiment soldier posted pictures of himself half-naked, and smoking drugs on his Instagram, and boasted about killing an Arab… Read More ›

• 40% of Americans Now Make Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage

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

  

  You may have seen charts like the one to the right from the Economic Policy Institute, showing how working people’s wages stopped going up along with productivity gains. This means the gains went…somewhere else. See if you can guess who got… Read More ›

• The Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 an Hour if it Rose with Productivity Since 1968

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

  Activists are mobilizing around President Obama’s call to raise the minimum wage to $9.00, and polling shows that Americans across the political spectrum agree with such a policy. But here’s an interesting fact about what the minimum wage could be instead. The… Read More ›

• Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren’t Invented by Al Qaeda — They’re Manufactured by the FBI

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

  Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/Africa Studio In the ten years following 9/11, the FBI and the Justice Department convicted more than 150 people following sting operations, though few had any connection to real terrorists. The following is an excerpt from The Terror Factory:… Read More ›

• Obama Waives Child Soldier Ban in Yemen and Congo

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

  Yemeni soldiers during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 4, 2011. (Hani Mohammed/AP Photo) By AVNI PATEL Tens of millions of dollars of U.S. military financing will continue to flow to Yemen and three other countries that recruit and use child soldiers, despite… Read More ›

• Foreign-backed Syria opposition pledges allegiance to Israel

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

  Leader of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition coalition Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib The leader of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, has pledged allegiance to the Israeli regime if he manages to form a “new regime in Syria.” In a… Read More ›

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