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• ‘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 ›

• Syrian Rebels Angry Over US Aid: ‘Only Thing We Want Is Weapons’

  By Editor-in-Chief on March 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Non-Lethal Aid Doesn’t Conquer Countries, Gen. Idris Insists by Jason Ditz General Salim Idris, the Chief of Staff of the Syrian rebels’ Supreme Military Council, reacted with anger toward the US announcement of additional aid for his forces, insisting that the promise… Read More ›

• How Israel legitimises torturing Palestinians to death

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

  Many in the West Bank are in mourning over the passing of Arafat Jaradat, who was tortured to death in an Israeli prison – he leaves behind a pregnant widow and two children [AFP] Israel’s policy of torture has left… Read More ›

• UN demands prosecution of Bush-era CIA crimes

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

  

  A United Nations investigator has demanded that the US publish classified documents regarding the CIA’s human rights violations under former President George W. Bush, with hopes that the documents will lead to the prosecution of public officials. Documents about the… Read More ›

• “We Saw Your Boobs” celebrates rape on film

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

  Seth MacFarlane during the Oscars on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello) Hey, Seth MacFarlane, did you know many of those “boob” scenes you sang about were depictions of sexual assault? BY KATIE MCDONOUGH Seth MacFarlane has made… Read More ›

• Kerry pledges $60 million in aid to Syrian opposition forces

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

  

  Secretary of State John Kerry announced the Obama administration will provide an additional $60 million in aid and will for the first time provide food and medical supplies to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad. By Henry Chu and… Read More ›

• Marco McMillian Dead: Openly Gay Mississippi Mayoral Candidate’s Body Found, Homicide Suspected

  By The Red Phoenix on March 2, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  By HOLBROOK MOHR JACKSON, Miss. — A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department… Read More ›

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