European Phoenix

Researchers warn of sweeping ban on veils

Researchers warn of sweeping ban on veils The paper 'Reasons to Ban? The Anti-Burqa Movement in Western Europe' examines the move to legislate against, and to criminalise face-veiling which has swept across the EU recently. European Phoenix -- The European movement against face-veiling is now widespread, with calls to implement a ban, or a ban being in place, in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, ...

Nearly 1 In 10 US Prisoners Victim Of Sexual Abuse

Nearly 1 In 10 US Prisoners Victim Of Sexual Abuse Nearly one of every 10 state prisoners is sexually victimized during confinement, according to a Justice Department study released. European Phoenix -- The Bureau of Justice Statistics examined data collected in surveys of former prisoners about their time behind bars. The officials found that most of the victims had been abused while they wer...

Two NATO troops killed in Afghan attack

Two NATO troops killed in Afghan attack Two NATO soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a rocket attack on their base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar Friday, an Afghan official with NATO forces said. European Phoenix -- Two other local officials confirmed the account, while the ISAF press office in Kabul said that "two service members died following an insurgent attack in ea...

UN Trumps Congress In Getting Approval For War On Syria

UN Trumps Congress In Getting Approval For War On Syria Following controversy over his assertion that seeking “international permission” from the UN to launch wars trumps the authority of Congress, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta re-affirmed this premise during recent testimony in which he again stated that Congress would play second fiddle to the international community. Asked by Congressma...

UK Household Energy Costs Climbing As JET

UK Household energy costs 'soaring' The average household's annual energy bill of Â£1,252 now accounts for 11% of a couple's basic state pension of Â£11,175 a year, the study by price comparison website uSwitch.com found. European Phoenix -- The cost of energy is now the top household worry for Britons (90%), ahead of the rising cost of food (77%) and mortgage payments (42%). Almost a third o...

Not Enough Deae Soldiers In Iraq And Afghanistan, US Special Forces in YEMEN

U.S. Special Forces Being Deployed to Protect “Security” of Yemen When asked by reporters if U.S. troops would be sent to Yemen, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responded, “There’s no consideration of that. Our operations now are directed with the Yemenese going after al-Qaida.” European Phoenix -- “No consideration” is exactly the type of vague and undefined phrase the American people have ...

Exclusive: Obama Born In Kenya!

Exclusive: Obama Born In Kenya! Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” European Phoenix -- The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographie...

23 American Agents Guilty Of Kidnapping Italian Cleric

CIA found guilty of human rights abuses In the first verdict of its kind, an Italian court has convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping a Muslim cleric. European Phoenix -- It was a symbolic condemnation of the CIA practice of “extraordinary rendition” used by the Bush administration during its war on terror – and which America has yet to recognise – took place in Italy. The...

Canadian Students Protest Over Tuition Raise

Canadian students protest over tuition raise Students in Montreal, outraged at class suspension after months of protests over tuition hikes, take to the streets prompting clashes with police European Phoenix -- Protesting students smashed storefronts in Montreal and confronted police after Quebec authorities announced an emergency law to suspend classes in a bid to restore or...

Los Angeles 99 Percenters: We Are Customers too!

99-percenters hold Los Angeles rally against financial firms Anti-corporate protesters and labor unions in Los Angeles have staged a protest rally, urging city officials to take meaningful measures to hold banks accountable for their business policies. European Phoenix -- The 99-percenters and Occupy Los Angeles activists demonstrated from the City Hall on Tuesday amid a new plan...

Crack Down In Azerbaijan, A Fact That West Doesn't Want to Hear

Azeri police clashes with Baku protesters At least 18 people have been arrested in Baku after Azeri police broke up an opposition protest demanding freedom of assembly and the release of political prisoners. European Phoenix -- The incident occurred on Monday when scores of protesters gathered the capital’s center Baku to voice opposition against President Ilham Aliyev ...

Death Knell To Be Sounded, Plan to Attack Iran “Ready”

U.S. Ambassador to Israel: Plan to Attack Iran “Ready” The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shaprio, told a closed conference in Tel Aviv that the United States has completed preparations for a military strike on Iran. His comments were recorded by a reporter and aired on Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Wednesday night. European Phoenix -- “It would be preferable to resolve this diplom...

UK Children Life At Risk, Social workers say

UK social workers fear service cuts risk children's lives Some 88% of social workers think cuts are putting vulnerable children's lives at risk, a survey suggests. European Phoenix -- And 54% of the 1,100 UK social workers questioned by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) said their caseloads were "unmanageable". The BASW says it shows the system is in a "dire" st...

Responsible For Buthchering 8,000 Bosnian men and boys, Now On Trial

Trial of Bosnian Muslims Butcher launches Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in his campaign of ethnic cleansing and the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica. European Phoenix -- Prosecutors will open his long-awaited trial at 9:00 am (0700 GMT) before judges at the ex-Yugoslavia war crimes court in The Hagu...

Congo General Using Abducted Children As Human Shield

Congo ex-general recruiting children again Human Rights Watch estimates that between 300 and 600 soldiers followed Congolese general Bosco Ntaganda in mutiny against government; ICC expands indictment. European Phoenix -- A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited an...

Dont Go To Texas If You Are Innocent, Most Probable State To Get Killed

Texas earns the title of the state most likely to execute the innocent The State of Texas, long the nation's leader in executions, has now earned the dubious title of the state most likely to execute the innocent. In 2004, Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham, despite compelling evidence that he was actually innocent of the arson which caused the death of his three small children. Now,...

London Turning Into a Police State, OCCUPY OLYMPICS

London is Turning Into a Highly Militarized Police State in Preparation for Olympic Games The upcoming summer Olympics are turning London into a highly militarized zone. All kinds of weaponry are currently being tested and deployed in the city such as land-to-air missiles, fighter jets, amphibious assault ships and machine guns. These highly controversial measures are not welcomed by...

Cop Blinds Woman With Pepper Spray Gun

Police State America : Cop Blinds Woman With Pepper Spray Gun These are the people we give guns to , a license to kill, Body Armor, Radios and Performance and Armored automobile, to walk amongst us with impunity? Sickening. When the police pummel a person and we turn a blind eye because we think they deserved it, we condone this. When the ‘good’ officers out there turn a blind e...

Police Prepared For Unrest In America, Ballistic Shields For Regular Cops

Regular Patrol Cops To Get “Ballistic Shields” In Florida Regular patrol officers in Florida are to be provided with bullet-proof ballistic shields in another sign of how police departments are preparing for violence and civil unrest in America. “Saxon Security and its partner LCOA Defense have been named suppliers to the St. Petersburg (Florida) police department for new ballistic shi...

Attacks on Muslims on rise during US election season

Attacks on Muslims on rise during US election season The head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) New York Board says attacking Muslims is on the rise in the US due to the election season. "We're seeing attacks on Muslims on the rise again because it's an election season," Zead Ramadan told us on Sunday. "Every time there is an election cycle, some people like Newt ...