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• Big Pharma made $711 bln overcharging seniors and disabled

  By The Red Phoenix on April 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The 11 largest drug companies have made $711 billion in profits in just a decade, largely due to overcharging Medicare, which does not seek out competitive prices and uses taxpayer funds to support Big Pharma. Since Medicare is prohibited from… Read More ›

• Missouri Man Arrested at Hospital for Refusing to leave Gay Partner

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 11, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By David Edwards A gay man was arrested at a hospital in Missouri this week when he refused to leave the bedside of his partner, and now a restraining order is preventing him from any type of visitation. Roger Gorley told… Read More ›

• Twelve civilians, including 11 children killed in Afghan NATO strike

  By The Red Phoenix on April 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A NATO airstrike has killed 11 children and one woman in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials. A house collapsed during the attack, causing the casualties and leaving six women injured. The civilians were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO… Read More ›

• Why Would Anyone Celebrate the Death of Margaret Thatcher? Ask a Chilean

  By The Red Phoenix on April 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  by Dave Zirin Never have I witnessed a gap between the mainstream media and the public quite like the last twenty-four hours since the death of Margaret Thatcher. While both the press and President Obama were uttering tearful remembrances, thousands… Read More ›

• Death of a Ruling Class Warrior: Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

  By The Red Phoenix on April 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Tom Mills Thatcher is dead. But for years she was a shadow of her former self. After her fall from power in 1990 she slowly faded away from public life and when she did wander back onto the public stage… Read More ›

• Paul Robeson Mural Restored, Rededicated on Activist’s 115th Birthday

  By The Red Phoenix on April 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Cherri Gregg PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Mural Arts Program today rededicated a mural of Paul Robeson on his 115th birthday, while students from Robeson High School in West Philadelphia celebrated a victory inspired by the civil rights leader. At… Read More ›

• NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly “wanted to instill fear” in Black and Latino men

  By Editor-in-Chief on April 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  At stop-and-frisk trial, New York state senator and former police captain Eric Adams testifies about 2010 conversation with Kelly by Ryan Devereaux The commissioner of the New York City police department views the controversial practice of stop, question and frisk as a means… Read More ›

• Cops Raid Wrong House, Threaten Children and Kill Their Dog

  By The Red Phoenix on April 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Six children from Chicago are gonna remember this night as one of their most traumatizing experiences. The kids, aged 11 months to 13 years at the time, were rehearsing songs for the church choir with their grandmother Charlene Holly when… Read More ›

• Video: Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq With Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers

  By The Red Phoenix on April 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

• Immigrants Held in Solitary Cells, Often for Weeks

  By The Red Phoenix on April 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  WASHINGTON — On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities that make up the sprawling patchwork of holding centers nationwide overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to new federal data…. Read More ›

• DPRK’s “State of War” Declaration Is a Faulty Translation: Not an Official Policy Statement from Kim Jung Un

  By The Red Phoenix on April 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By Scott Creighton “from that time” becomes “from this time on”  and “from this moment“… little change, big difference As much as our leaders would like them to have taken the bait, North Korea has not declared war on the South or the U.S. in response to our unprecedented… Read More ›

• CEOs Still Living the Good Life: Perks Packages Rose In Value By 18.7 Percent In 2012

  By The Red Phoenix on April 7, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  CEOs are living the good life. On the company’s dime. America’s 100 best-paid corporate chiefs got an 18.7 percent boost in their perks packages, according to a survey of executive pay performed by Equilar for The New York Times. Those perks,… Read More ›

• “1 million died” from Afghan Heroin, Drug Production “40 times higher” since NATO Operation

  By The Red Phoenix on April 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Heroin production in Afghanistan increased 40 times since NATO began its ‘War on Terror’ in 2001, the head of Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service stated, adding that more than 1million people have died from Afghan heroin since then. “Afghan heroin… Read More ›

• Germany ‘tracks down 50 suspected Auschwitz guards’

  By The Red Phoenix on April 6, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Fifty alleged former Auschwitz guards may face prison terms in Germany, sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, local media have reported. The former Auschwitz guards, who’ve never faced prosecution for their posts, were tracked down by the… Read More ›

• Fidel Castro: The Duty to Avoid War in Korea

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

  

  A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of… Read More ›

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