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• FBI adds 65-year-old Black Panther to Most Wanted Terrorists list

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

  

  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced that Joanne Chesimard has been added to its Most Wanted Terrorists list. Thursday’s bulletin gave Chesimard, a black nationalist, the dubious distinction of being the first woman to be placed on the list…. Read More ›

• Suicide Rates Rise Sharply in U.S.

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

  

  By TARA PARKER-POPE Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry and easy access to prescription painkillers may be particularly vulnerable to… Read More ›

• Michigan GOP Pass Bullying Bill Giving ‘License To Bully’

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

  

  by DAVID BADASH Michigan Senate Republicans have passed a bullying bill — not an anti-bullying bill — that actually gives license to bully. In an Orwellian twist, the bill, which passed 26-11, with zero Democratic votes, allows kids to be bullied… Read More ›

• Syrian rebels ‘used unknown chemicals’ against civilians in Idlib – state news agency

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

  

  Syrian opposition fighters have allegedly used unknown chemicals against residents in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern province of Idlib to later put the blame on Assad forces, SANA news agency reports citing a government official. The source stated… Read More ›

• Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity: Study

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

  

  By Caroline Fairchild President Obama’s call to increase the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour was one of the more significant proposals he laid out in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But $9 an hour is still a far cry from… Read More ›

• Unemployed Man Self-Immolates in Sidi Bouzid

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

  

  Amira Masrour A young man in his twenties who had trouble finding work self-immolated yesterday in front of the town hall in the governorate of Sidi Bouzid. Ibrahim Slimani poured gasoline over his body and set himself alight in front… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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