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Global Peace Index : Nations With More Atheism are More Peaceful
Graphic from Epiphenom.‘It’s another blow to the idea that secularization leads to social meltdown. Atheist countries are, in fact more peaceful.’ By Tom Rees / June 4, 2009 The 2009 Global Peace Index has just been released. It’s basically a … Continue reading
Only In America: The Rebecca Rubin Doll
One Rebecca Rubin has an FBI wanted poster and the other comes with toy challah bread. Newly Marketed ‘American Girl’ Doll Accidently Named After Alleged Eco-TerroristBy Tara Lohan / June 2, 2009 Apparently hoping to expand their marketing reach, Mattel … Continue reading
Spending on Peace Is More Cost Effective
Military spending is set to rise 34% by 2012.The purchasing power of peaceBy Jorn Madslien / June 3, 2009 Purchasing power long ago overtook manpower as the most important lever in the race towards military might. Currently, personnel expenditure accounts … Continue reading
Barbara Ehrenreich to Journalism Grads : Welcome to the Working Class
Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now ‘part of the working class.’ By Barbara Ehrenreich / June 4, 2009. [The following is the text of Barbara Ehrenreich’s commencement address on May … Continue reading
Guantanamo Prisoners Shaming Washington
I can think of very little that is more disgusting than the words of a former commander of the Guantanamo facility (which I missed when they were uttered in June 2006). He said that three detainee suicides were not acts … Continue reading
Capable of Learning Nothing from Almost Any Experience
Graceful Reprieve – art by William O’Connor.Happy Days: ReprieveBy Tim Kreider / June 2, 2009 Fourteen years ago I was stabbed in the throat. This is kind of a long story and it’s not the point of this essay. The … Continue reading
The Sotomayor Nomination : Racism and Right-Wing Lunacy
Racism and Right-Wing Lunacy Her comment was simply a truism: identity shapes experience, which then informs perceptions. Identity provides a lens through which one then observes reality. By Tim Wise / June 1, 2009 For a group that regularly decries … Continue reading
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Movement Lawyer Dead in Plane Crash
Attorney Susan Jordan, shown here in her Oakland office in 1999, was killed Friday in a plane crash in southern Utah. Photo: John Burgess/The Press Democrat. Susan Jordan defended the Rag‘s own Marilyn Buck. Susan Jordan, Criminal Justice Defense Lawyer … Continue reading
Rules Bar Non-Profit News Media from Congress
The House of Representatives Press Gallery. Photo: Source.Capitol Improvement: If nonprofits are supposed to save journalism, why aren’t their reporters allowed into congressional press galleries?By Megan Tady / June 2, 2009 An outdated congressional rule effectively excludes nonprofit news organizations … Continue reading
BOOKS / Bob Zellner’s ‘The Wrong Side of Murder Creek’
If you want a taste of what life on the front lines was like in the Southern civil rights movement, you have to read this book. By Jo Freeman [The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the … Continue reading
Bill O’Reilly and ‘Tiller the Baby Killer’
Excerpts from Bill O’Reilly’s attacks on murdered physician George Tiller.O’Reilly’s campaign against murdered doctor The Fox News star had compared Tiller to a Nazi, called him a ‘baby killer,’ and warned of ‘Judgment Day’ By Gabriel Winant / May 31, … Continue reading
