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5 Apr 2018, 4:29 pm
A man with Richard Nixon’s character but not his patriotism, an advocate of Reagan’s drug war and Mussolini’s economics who dreams of using the FCC to shut down media critics—and possibly a global trade war to boot....Sad... but not really that sad. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 7:13 am
List of signatories: Action des Chrétiens pour l'Abolition de la Torture (ACAT)Amnesty InternationalArab Foundation for Development and CitizenshipArabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)Association for Progressive CommunicationsCairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)Euromed Rights (EMHRN)FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights… [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 10:40 am
An Iraqi detainee held at Guantanamo Bay pleaded guilty to war crimes connected to attacks on allied soldiers in 2003 and 2004, writes the New York Times. [read post]
3 Dec 2021, 11:53 am
The Taliban issued a decree Friday barring forced marriage in Afghanistan that states women must consent to marriage, says AP News. [read post]
9 Nov 2013, 6:30 am
November 11th marks the end of World War I, then known as the Great War, in 1918, a conflict intended to make the world safe for democracy in which some 4 million Americans served, 200,000 were wounded and 100,000 gave their lives. [read post]
19 Aug 2017, 10:08 pm
Svetlana Alexievich's "magnificent and harrowing" The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II is reviewed in both The Atlantic and The New York Times.In addition to being reviewed in this week's New York Times, Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America is reviewed twice in the Boston Review. [read post]
9 Jan 2013, 7:35 am
The imposition of gender norms and family formation norms and the use of sexual violence as a tool of war have been significant to processes of colonization. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 5:00 am
A further complication is the 2015 agreement between the two countries on the so-called comfort women—since then abrogated by the current Korean President Moon Jae-in—whereby Japan agreed to pay $8.3 million USD to the surviving sex slave victims. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 11:58 am
By reexamining the history of the consent wars, we can gain valuable perspective on what can go right -- and wrong -- when we forge a jurisprudence based on the relationship between genetic, gestational, and functional parenthood.Read more » [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 8:16 am
A fake war (with Albania) is created to distract people from the President's sex scandal (involving an underage girl).2. [read post]
11 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
Anti-miscegenation laws were part of the Jim Crow legal regime that took hold after the Civil War and officially separated black people from white people in every aspect of social life, including schools, hospitals, buses, restaurants, hotels, swimming pools, and drinking fountains. [read post]
9 Dec 2008, 5:00 am
Thirty-four years old when World War II broke out, Dr. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 11:22 pm
Of her tenure as Vice President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia from 1993-1995, she told Women's Human Rights net that she, along with then-President Gabrielle Kirk McDonald and the Office of the Prosecutor,undertook the task of making visible the sexual and gender violence that women suffer both in 'peacetime' and in international and internal armed conflicts -- a task left undone since World War II. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 4:47 am
Additionally, Women Veterans Day is recognized by a growing number of U.S. states that specifically honors women who have served in the U.S. military. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 10:55 am
Today, Michelle and I join the American people in honoring the memory of the more than 2,400 American patriots—military and civilian, men, women and children—who gave their lives in our first battle of the Second World War. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 1:41 pm
When I wrote passionate criticisms of a Republican administration and Republican Congressional majority who failed to champion LGBTQI equality, assailed women's bodily autonomy, treated Roe as a suggestion, refused to disclose lobbyist visits to the White House, invoked the separation of powers to protect themselves, called for spending freezes on social programs, legitimized rightwing extremists, advocated for offshore drilling, pushed HSAs, escalated a war, thumbed their… [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 5:54 am
They also make up the majority of casualties from “explosive remnants of war. [read post]
23 May 2007, 8:07 pm
You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions—Stop The War—have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you… for a handful of magic beans. [read post]
11 Aug 2013, 8:46 am
” I especially like Zinn’s efforts to see history “from the bottom looking up,” that is, to capture the thoughts of not leaders and prosperous citizens but rather simple and subjugated people – workers, immigrants, women, African Americans, and Native Americans, among others. [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 3:24 pm
That is just a constant albatross around GOP necks with women voters. [read post]
