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• Huge Drop in Workers at City-Sized US Embassy in Baghdad

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Cost-Cutting to See 10,000 Withdraw This Year by Jason Ditz A Vatican-sized fortress along the Tigris River, the US Embassy to Iraq is the stuff of legends, a $730 million testament to the runaway overspending of the occupation era. Ten years after… Read More ›

• Faces of war: Ten years since Iraq invasion

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

  

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• Dirty Wars: Pope Francis’ Ties to Argentina’s Right-wing Junta

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

  

  Democracy Now! reports this morning: While praised for his work with the poor, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — has long been dogged by accusations of his role during Argentina’s military dictatorship. We speak to Horacio Verbitsky,… Read More ›

• Political Cartoon: Pope Francis I, good friend of Argentina’s dictatorship

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

  

• Fascism Comes to Queens

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

  

  Golden Dawn, a neo-Nazi party that has tormented Greece and terrorized immigrants, has now brought its fascist message of anti-democratic intimidation to New York City. On March 2, New York supporters of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had planned… Read More ›

• Israel’s Peres urges Arab intervention in Syria

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

  

  By Martine Pauwels (AFP) STRASBOURG, France — Israel’s Shimon Peres called Tuesday for Arab intervention “to stop the massacre” in Syria as he delivered the first speech by an Israeli head of state to the European Parliament in almost three… Read More ›

• ‘If you were a man, we’d kill you’: Captive journalist tells RT how she escaped Syrian rebels

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

  

  ‘I couldn’t bear it any longer’, recalls Anhar Kochneva. The Ukrainian journalist who escaped Syrian rebels five months after she was kidnapped told RT about what she had to go through while in captivity and how she managed to run… Read More ›

• Over 100 Guantanamo inmates ‘on hunger strike,’ possibly in grave condition

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

  

  Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay inmates have claimed “all but a few men” are on a hunger strike over their Qurans being taken away. The condition of the strikers “appears to be rapidly deteriorating and reaching a potentially critical level,” they… Read More ›

• The American Party of Labor Celebrates International Women’s Day

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

  

  Comrades around the world! Today we celebrate March 8th, International Women’s Day. We reaffirm that the link between women’s liberation and total human emancipation from exploitation is unbreakable, and that we cannot have one without the other. To speak about… Read More ›

• Libyan Women Face Islamist Rise Since Gaddafi Fall

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

  

  By MAGGIE MICHAEL On her way back from her job as a lecturer at a university near Tripoli, Libyan poet Aicha Almagrabi was stopped by a group of bearded militiamen. They kicked her car, beat up her driver and threatened… Read More ›

• IDF teargas int’l journalists covering peaceful protest in West Bank, incl RT crew

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

  

  Several international journalists, including an RT cameraman, have suffered from teargas as IDF have launched teargas bombs at the media crews outside Ofer Prison, West Bank. In recent weeks protests outside the facility have left scores of injured. The RT… Read More ›

• Arkansas adopts most restrictive abortion law in US

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

  

  Women looking to procure an abortion in the state of Arkansas will no longer be able to do so after 12 weeks of pregnancy. The state has passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US, prompting opponents to threaten… Read More ›

• ‘Anti-Semitic’ Romanian author nominated for Nobel Prize

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

  

  Writers’ association in Moldova reportedly nominates Paul Goma – who is accused of ‘denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts’ – for Nobel Prize in Literature. A writers’ association in Moldova has reportedly nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of… Read More ›

• Editorial: Hugo Chávez kept his promise to the people of Venezuela

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

  

  By OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA He wrote, he read, and mostly he spoke. Hugo Chávez, whose death has been announced, was devoted to the word. He spoke publicly an average of 40 hours per week. As president, he didn’t hold regular cabinet meetings; he’d bring… Read More ›

• Venezuela begins seven days of mourning after death of Hugo Chávez

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

  

  Jonathan Watts and Virginia Lopez in Caracas Vice president Nicolas Maduro takes up interim post Wave of mourning breaks out in streets of Venezuela Chávez to get state funeral in Caracas Venezuelans began seven days of painful and public mourning on Tuesday night… Read More ›

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