Protest Photos of Mutilated Naked Women to Sell Shoes
The images in this photo spread in V Magazine's July 20, 2007 issue have been manipulated to portray decapitated and mutilated women stuffed into photos of expensive high heel shoes. One characteristic...
View ArticlePolice Sweeps At RNC - a Decade Long Pattern
In Minnesota last weekend, in the days before the 2008 Republican National Convention began, the police raided at least four buildings housing nonviolent protesters in preemptive attacks designed to...
View ArticleSarah Palin Lied about Polar Bears - AK Tried to Cover Up
Sarah Palin lied at least four times in an op-ed she wrote for the the New York Times (Bearing Up, January 8, 2008).She was trying to argue against Bush's interior department's plan to list polar bears...
View ArticleMcCain's Racist Promise to "Whip" Obama
According to the AP, McCain said on Sunday (October 12) "We're going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we're going to be going out 24/7," McCain said. In...
View ArticleReanalyzing McCain's Threat to "Whip" Obama: Republican Southern Strategy
McCain's threat to "Whip Obama's you-know-what," as I and others have diaried about a few days ago (see below), has been largely dismissed an inconsequential on a number of threads on dkos. I'm glad...
View ArticleMcCain's Theocratic Lie: US Constitution Established Christian Nation
Update: I talked with an editor for the JTA, "The Global News Service of the Jewish People," who asked me, "Why is this news? It's from a year ago." But then, the story was largely ignored because...
View ArticleDanger of Post-Election Demobilization: Avoiding Despair or Complacency
For all of our obsessing over electoral politics, we need to build social movements to complement electoral movements if we are to succeed at achieving fundamental social changes. I wrote the following...
View ArticleMcKinney Loses My Vote: Claimed 5000 Executed Post-Katrina
I think it's important for the Democratic Party to stop taking the ecological, peace, feminist, labor, civil liberties, civil rights, disability rights, and human rights movements for granted by...
View ArticleEmanuel Favored Pro-Iraq War Candidates in 2006
Those of us who hope Obama will pull US troops out of Iraq should be fearful of the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff. As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according...
View ArticleHelp Save 9 Million Lives: Cost? Only 7% of Bailout
Global Health Initiatives Could Save 9 Million Lives Per Year: Cost? Only 7% of Congressionally Funded Bailout"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the...
View ArticleAfghan Peacemaking
Obama has proposed sending 30,000 more US soldiers to escalate the wars in Afghanistan.We at Peacework Magazine published a special issue on Afghan Peacemaking (our December 2008/January 2009 issue)....
View ArticleBill Gates Unleashes Mosquitoes to Protest Malaria
During a presentation at the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, according to Pulse2, Bill Gates opened a jar and let loose mosquitoes into the room, saying, "Not only poor people...
View ArticleNYT: Omits Single Payer, Objects that Obama Plan Would Work Too Well
An Article in the March 25, 2009 edition of the New York Times, "A Health Plan for All And the Concerns it Raises"http://www.nytimes.com/... is hilariously sad in its overt pro-corporate and...
View ArticleMilitary Recruiters Caught Lying - on Tape
Military recruiters have a quota, or what they call a "mission," specifying how many people they're expected to enlist each month. When they don't reach their quotas, they're often pressured intensely,...
View ArticleAlert: JROTC To Invade Hundreds More Schools - Unless
JROTC Wants to Invade Hundreds More SchoolsJROTC, a high school program to militarize youth in high schools, has already invaded almost 3400 schools. Peacework Magazine has learned that Congress passed...
View ArticleTell New Yorker: Prostituted Haitian Women Dying of HIV: Not Funny
Zev Borow wrote in a humor column about sunblock in the New Yorker: "SPF 175—Ever wanted to have unprotected sex with a prostitute in Haiti? Don’t answer. Doesn’t matter. The point is with SPF 175...
View ArticleOn Femicide in Pittsburgh: End Men's Violence
How many massacres perpetrated by men against women will it take before we as a society, especially those of us who are men, work seriously to end men's violence?Last night, news reports indicate that...
View ArticleAP Story Omits US Inflicted Deaths in Afghanistan, Attributes them to Taliban
In an AP story posted on the Dallas Morning News Site, "Soldier, civilian deaths from bombs soar in Afghanistan" posted on 12:00 am CDT on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, the paper (or the news-service)...
View ArticleLive Blogging National Parks: America's Best Idea
Episode 1. Let's comment here. I was offended by the title, but Burns' defused this first objection by quoting someone up front saying Jefferson's idea of equal opportunity is the US's best idea, but...
View ArticleCommemorating Those Killed in Afghanistan: A Cry for Peace
This past Saturday, starting at 6 a.m., I began placing pairs of empty combat boots on the Ellipse within sight of the White House. I worked alongside members of the American Friends Service Committee...
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