Increasingly, we’re realizing that helping women is the best first step in an array of issues. Data and experience demonstrate that dollars and effort invested in women return more good to the community than delivering to the state or to men. Women tend to reinvest in their families and communities before themselves and policy and [...]
Women and the world’s issues 07.06.08
MTV on Fascism 04.09.08
What’s going on with MTV?
Here are two promos from their THINK campaign that got me thinking: WTF MTV?
Some YouTube comments, inevitably perhaps, argue that this is merely the malicious agency of the Jewish conspiracy at work. Others, that becoming a fascistic state that rounds folks up with dogs and guns isn’t a pressing concern.
wareaglemom [...]
Olympics vs. Human Rights? 04.01.08
Mother Jones writes about the emerging debate surrounding the torch relay passing through San Francisco — and elsewhere in ‘Free Tibet’ vs. ‘Free-Speech Zones.’
Though now a symbol of global unity, the torch relay got its start during the so-called Fascist Olympics held in 1936 Berlin, when the Nazis seized upon the idea as a way [...]
Standard Operating Procedure - trailer for the new Abu Ghraib doc 03.24.08
Trailer for Standard Operating Procedure a new Abu Ghraib documentary by award-winning Fog of War director Errol Morris.
Corporatist media ignores Canada acknowledging, then ignoring, torture of Canadians 01.22.08
If you only read corporatist media or have been kidnapped and illegally detained and tortured by the American government you’ve
likely missed this story. If the Globe and Mail or any of the dozens of CanWest media outlets mentioned this, it was not readily available today.
Here’s a summary of what you’ve missed from a legitimate [...]
Costly fuel means costly food 01.20.08
I watched the Calgary Flames beat the L.A. Kings with some friends at the Saddledome on Friday. Afterwards, the conversation among my fellow hockey-goers turned to peak oil and the cost of living… naturally.
When talk of the sharply rising price of food and potential mass starvation and food crises came up there were incredulous [...]
Guantanamo’s 6th Anniversary: January 11, 2007 01.11.08
Nowhere in the corporate news today, unsurprisingly, but today is the sixth anniversary of the U.S. illegal detention of men and boys, including Canadian citizens, at Guantanamo. Worldwide protests are going on today to mark it.
There’s a transcript and audio stream of an interview this morning discussing the anniversary and the protests at Democracy [...]
U.S. 2008’s “Rogue-est” State 01.02.08
Let’s talk rogue states.
Actually, let’s talk about the rogue-est of all the rogue states and their inarguably excessive, obsessive, aggressive funding of organized state-violence and, increasingly, state-terror.
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald pointed me to recent work by Global Security. Taking the FY2008 U.S. budget they prepared a revealing chart that summarizes the greatest challenge to peace and [...]
What is torture? 10.24.07
Q Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
Q What’s your definition of the word “torture”?
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
Q The word “torture.” What’s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s defined in U.S. law, and we don’t torture.
Q Can you give me your version of it, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Whatever the law says.
October 17, 2007 Press Conference [...]
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