Archive for 'war'
Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
Tags: 9/11, Aborigine, afghanistan, apartheid, australia, barack obama, bombing, border, bystanders, church, communism, communist, consciousness, crime, democracy, disobedience, diversity, dominance, Eddie Murray, Edmund Burke, edward bernays, First Australians, freedom, george bush, harold pinter, hypocrisy, illegal immigrants, illusion, incarceration, insurrection, Iran, Israel, john howard, john pilger, journalism, justice, Kevin Rudd, malnutrition, media bias, Milan Kundera, NATO, Nobel Prize, palestine, peace, pedophilia, Percy Shelley, poetry, poverty, PR, propaganda, public relations, Puggy Hunter, racism, Rupert Murdoch, russia, Saddam Hussein, sex slavery, social class, stalin, stock, terrorism, terrorists, Thomas Paine, thrachoma, truth, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam, war, WMD
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Plan B: A Welcome "Miscarriage" of Justice
According to the New York Times, a federal judge ruled yesterday that Plan B (levonorgestrel), will be made available over the counter to women who are seventeen or older. The judge, Edward R. Korman, a Reagan-appointee, stated that there had been “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications” on the part of the F.D.A. The NYT [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under FDA, a woman's right to choose, birth, birth control, contraception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, economics, egg, pro life, pro-choice, reproductive rights, war, women's health, women's rights, zygote.
Tags: abortion, casualties, children, choice, civilians, conception, contraceptive, contraceptives, crime, criminal, embryo, FDA, implantation, integrity, Iraq War, iraqi, minor, minors, miscarriage, mothers, pill, plan b, pro life, reproductive rights, susan wood, trimester, u.s. troops, unwanted babies, unwanted baby, women's rights, world population, zygote
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Onward, Feminist Soldiers: The Battle of . . . Do We Really Want a Battle?
Jessica Lynch “was born in Palestine, West Virginia,” according to the Wikipedia page about her. It continues, “her family could not afford to send her to college; her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons. Searching for a way to pay for the children’s educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under discrimination, female, female empowerment, female leader, feminine energy, femininity, feminism, fight, male worldview, maleness, males, man, masculine systems, masculinity, military, military casualties, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, obama, september, september 11, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, stereotype, stereotypes, terrorism, terrorist, violation, violence, war, war on terror, weapons, women, women in the military, women's liberation, women's movement, women's rights, work, working conditions.
Tags: barack obama, college, community service, congo, Dahomey Amazons, destiny's child, eye of the tiger, fast food, female soldier, feminist, gender, gender blind, gender role, gender stereotype, globalization, hierarchy, inés suarez, infantry, islamic militant, jessica lynch, Joan of Arc, lionesses, masculinity, military, molly pitcher, navy seals, patriarchy, physical strength, pine leaf, power, Qiu Jin, Rani Lakshmibai, rape, sarah palin, self defense, september 11, sex, sexism, sexual dimorphism, sexual power, silver star, special forces, stereotype, strength, survivor, terrorism, test tube babies, violence, war, war on terror, warrior, weakness, women, work, zivildienst
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"War Has Got to Be A Last Option . . . I Believe that America Has to Exercise All Options"
Right. Buckle up, because we’re about to jump on the Hate-on-Palin bandwagon. Firstly, when a vice-presidential candidate evokes bitter articles from people from her own home state, political party, political faction, and gender, who used to consider her a close friend, that’s a bad sign. Secondly, when a vice-presidential candidate stalls her way through two [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2008 under Bush, Pakistan, bushmccain, palin, policy, politician, politicians, politics, religion, religious extremists, war.
Tags: Bush, bush doctrine, candidate, charles gibson, foreign policy, Georgia, God, interview, Katie Couric, leadership, mccain, Pakistan, palin, republican, russia, sarah palin, Tina Fey, ukraine, vice presidential, world leader
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Why Obama, Volume One: 10,000-year war "fine" by McCain
I think that Americans are best represented by Obama for several reasons: 1. He does not support a continuation of the foreign policy that created the War Against Afghanistan or the War Against Iraq. 2. He does not, as McCain does, state that the military should be making foreign policy decisions and suggest that it [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2008 under 100 years, Civil Rights, Iraq War, afghanistan, election, iraq, mccain, obama, presidency, president, presidential candidate, war.
Tags: 100 years, 100%, 1000, 10000, afghanistan, candidate, Civil Rights, domestic policy, economics, economy, election, foreign policy, iraq, mccain, middle east, obama, politics, power, president, presidential, republican, republicans, right to bear arms, Supreme Court, the wire, Vietnam, war, WMD, years
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U.N. Rules that "Rape is a Weapon of War": Um, duh, now what?
As The Austrailian reports, “In his remarks, UN chief Ban Ki-moon stressed the world body was “profoundly committed to its zero-tolerance policy against sexual exploitation or abuse by our own personnel”.” “”Violence against women has reached unspeakable and pandemic proportions in some societies attempting to recover from conflict,” he said.” The BBC notes that China, [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under United Nations, pedophilia, prostitution, rape, rape culture, rape victim, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual morality, sexual objectification, sexual violence, survivor, violence, violence against women, war.
Tags: abuse, Ban Ki-moon, congolese, goma student fund, mapendo, nations, peacekeepers, pedophilia, prostitute, rape, scholarship, security council, sexual exploitation, sexual violence, U.N., united, violence, violence against women, war, weapon
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Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under 08, 1492, Guantanamo, Ohio, Texas, United States, abduction, afghanistan, african-american, african-americans, american way, anti-white, baltimore sun, barack, barackaway, birds, black, black males, black panther party, black panthers, bomb, brunch, brutality, california, californian, canary, candidate, capitalist, caucus, change, charges, church, clinton, coalmine, colonial power, colony, corruption, crime, cub, culture, culture of fear, delegate, dementia, democrat, democratic, detainee, dictatorship, direct traffic, drug, drug use, drugs, election, enslavement, equality, exploitation, fairness, fear, federal, funding, gender, goods, government, group, health care, hillary, hillary care, hillarycare, hitler, homeland, homeland security, hope, human, human rights, imperialism, international, jesse jackson, justice, law, lean back, male, males, manipulation, men, mental health, mining industry, minor, neighborhood, neocolonial, non-violent, oakland, obama, panthers, party, police, politics, possession, power, presidency, president, primary, profit, proletariat, property, race, radical, reagan, regime, rich, rights, rockaway, scandal, security, services, sex, stalin, state, sulfur-coloured seed eater, superdelegate, surrendur, system, ten point, ten point program, terror, terror squad, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, toddler, totalitarian, totalitarianism, u.s. government, uncle sam, vibe, vincent navarro, violation, violence, war, war on drugs, welfare, white.
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