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• Mountain Dew Pulls Terrible Racist Ad

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

  

  By Aisha Harris Mountain Dew recently released three new ads featuring a crazed goat voiced by rapper Tyler, the Creator, who was also the mastermind behind the commercials. The goat is seen attacking a waitress after she gives him the soda,… Read More ›

• Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

  By Editor-in-Chief on May 3, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Jason Leopold An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. Andy P. Hart, 38, a federal public defender in Toledo, Ohio, apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot… Read More ›

• Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2013!

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

  

  Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›

• Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to turn them into “men”

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

  

  Game ranger course ‘general’ is on trial for murder, child abuse, neglect and allegedly forced teen to eat his own feces BY JOE MORGAN Three ‘gay and effeminate’ teens have died after being starved, tortured and killed at a camp that… Read More ›

• Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced

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

  

  A seemingly trivial controversy reveals quite a bit about pervasive political values by Glenn Greenwald News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride… Read More ›

• Hundreds of thousands of Bangladesh’s garment workers walk out in protest over factory deaths

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

  

  By Agence France-Presse Hundreds of thousands of garment workers walked out of their factories in Bangladesh Thursday, police said, to protest the deaths of 200 people in a building collapse, in the latest tragedy to hit the sector. Grief turned… Read More ›

• US Turns Away 1000′s of Cancer Patients, but has 123 Million for Terrorists in Syria

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

  

  (LD) – The US has announced that it will provide militants in Syria, now openly admitted to being Al Qaeda terrorists, with $123 million in military aid – while thousands of cancer patients at home are being turned away from clinics… Read More ›

• Detroit police accused of ‘kidnapping’ homeless people, leaving them outside city limits

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

  

  Following a year-long investigation, the ACLU has filed a complaint demanding that Detroit Police halt what it calls the “disturbing practice” of literally driving away the homeless, often leaving them to fend for themselves in unfamiliar areas. According to complaints… Read More ›

• Chicago’s Fast Food Workers: “We Can’t Survive on $8.25”

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

  

  BY DAVID MOBERG On a normal day, Sonia Acuña, a petite 41-year old mother of four, puts on her bright red McDonald’s cap and reports to work at a branch of the giant hamburger chain in Chicago’s main rail terminal, Union… Read More ›

• Obama administration bypasses CISPA by secretly allowing Internet surveillance

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Scared that CISPA might pass? The federal government is already using a secretive cybersecurity program to monitor online traffic and enforce CISPA-like data sharing between Internet service providers and the Department of Defense. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has obtained… Read More ›

• Gitmo is Killing Me

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30… Read More ›

• Editorial: Why North Korea Needs Nuclear Weapons

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

  By Stephen Gowans Is North Korea’s recent nuclear test, its third, to be welcomed, lamented or condemned? It depends on your perspective. If you believe that a people should be able to organize their affairs free from foreign domination and… Read More ›

• Obama Signs 2013 NDAA, Blocking Closure of Gitmo

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

  

  Obama initially threatened a veto, but instead signed it into law with a vague proviso by John Glaser President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the $633 billion defense authorization bill despite provisions that block any attempt to close the Guantanamo… Read More ›

• Islamic Cleric Issues Fatwa Allowing for Syrian Rebels to Rape Non-Sunni Women

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

  

  By Cheryl K. Chumley An Islamic cleric has cleared the path for rebels in Syria, who are trying to oust President Bashar Assad, to rape women, so long as they’re non-Sunni. Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-Ajlawni, who hails from Jordan but who lived in Damascus for… Read More ›

• Editorial: We Went to a Men’s Rights Lecture in Toronto

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

  

  And We Discovered that They’re a Bunch of Losers By Brad Casey In November of last year the University of Toronto hosted a lecture by Dr. Warren Farrell, a divisive figure who has been described simultaneously as a sage of… Read More ›

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