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• Of Flags & Butter: An Analysis of American White Supremacy Through Symbols

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

  

  American racism and white supremacy is not limited to the physical realm, but is also a mental phenomenon – it is possible for the mind to be colonized by racist and white supremacist ideology, just as it is possible for… Read More ›

• US to give $123 million military aid package to Syrian rebels

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

  

  As Syria’s opposition forces and their main international allies meet in Istanbul, the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has announced that the US will double its non-lethal military aid to Syria’s rebels. The US$123 million defense aid package was… Read More ›

• Israel injects Palestinian prisoners with dangerous viruses

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

  

  The Israeli regime injects Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with “dangerous viruses” before releasing them, a report says. “A Palestinian released from Israeli jails, Rania Saqa, has brought to light that the Israeli regime injected detainees that are out of… Read More ›

• Terrorism and Privilege: Understanding the Power of Whiteness

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

  

  by Tim Wise As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing in Boston yesterday, one searches for lessons amid the carnage, and finds few. That violence is unacceptable stands out as one, sure. That hatred — for… Read More ›

• Venezuela accuses opposition of plotting coup, seven dead

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Brian Ellsworth and Andrew Cawthorne (Reuters) – Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro accused the opposition on Tuesday of planning a coup against him after seven government supporters were killed in clashes over his disputed election victory. Opposition leader Henrique Capriles… Read More ›

• To Catch Government Workers With Ties to Child Porn, Call the IRS

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Lori Handrahan, Ph.D. Last week the IRS decided to award Bradley Birkenfeld his $104 million dollar share for helping bust UBS bank. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and his staff were instrumental. Senator Grassley vowed to delay pending Department of Treasury nominations if the IRS… Read More ›

• Gitmo hunger strike on rise, 15 prisoners force-fed

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

  

  Days after violent clashes between guards and prisoners, the US military says a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay is on the rise as the number of those fasting has increased from 45 to 52. Some 15 prisoners are being force-fed…. Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Henrique Capriles & Right-Wing Riots in Venezuela

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

  

• Maduro Wins Venezuelan Presidential Election with 50.66 Percent of the Vote

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

  

  By CHRIS CARLSON Maracaibo, April 14th, 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Nicolas Maduro has won the Venezuelan presidential election with 50.66 percent of the vote against 49.07 percent for opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Maduro gave a victory speech immediately after, while Capriles… Read More ›

• Why Socialism?

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

  by J. Bialek The spectre which once haunted Europe long ago in 1848, materialized in corporeal form in 1917 and was seemingly exorcized in 1991 has returned in force. This time the “spectre of communism” is haunting the entire world. In… Read More ›

• Cop fired for using Trayvon Martin images in target practice

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

  

  A Florida policeman has been fired for using photos of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, shot and killed last year by a neighborhood watchman, for target practice. Martin’s family attorney condemned the act as “depraved.” Sgt. Ron King of the Florida’s Port… Read More ›

• An Interview with North Koreans

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

  

  by Stansfield Smith I recently returned from a late March trip to North Korea [Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)], along with 45 others, through Koryo Tours. On that tour I had the opportunity to discuss with the Korean tour guides… Read More ›

• The Nordic model is the only model that actually works. ‘Duh,’ says Sweden

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

  

  By Meghan Murphy An article was published recently in The Independent looking at the Nordic model in Sweden. The journalist, Joan Smith, took a ride in a squad car to see how a model wherein the buyer is criminalized and the prostitute is decriminalized actually… Read More ›

• ‘US-trained death squads’ organized torture sites across Iraq

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

  

  After one year in Iraq the US government secretly enlisted retired Special Forces operatives to train Shia militia in the art of torture and other war crimes that fueled the Iraqi civil war, according to a new report. Just over… Read More ›

• US Govt starts notifying Gitmo inmates’ lawyers of force-feeding

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

  

  The US leadership has begun naming those Guantanamo prisoners who are being force-fed to stop them from starving to death. The prisoner hunger strike at the facility has been ongoing for two months. A lawyer for Yemeni inmate Samir Mukbel… Read More ›

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