Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: PEEK. October 7, 2009. It only addresses a small part of the continuing blatant disregard for women's human rights as a result of U.S. military actions.
Anonymous, RH Reality Check. September 28, 2009. Every day that our doors are open to women seeking abortions, the sidewalk in front of our clinic is occupied by stalkers, harassers, and creeps.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 15, 2009. Maher seems to think that physically assaulting women is a super funny joke.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. August 13, 2009. Maybe GOP/conservative leaders should consider curtailing the lies a little, and scale back on the most vile attacks.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 23, 2009. Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. June 18, 2009. Things are ugly now. But they could rapidly get a lot uglier, more violent, and more civil war-like. Will opposition maintain its momentum?
Nathan Robinson, AlterNet. June 4, 2009. O'Reilly turns political spats into "moral" crusades and his opponents into monsters -- an extremist worldview that leads to violence.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 11, 2009. Even in good times, life for poor working women can be an obstacle-filled struggle to get by. In an economic crisis, it can be hell.
Mikki Halpin, AlterNet. April 29, 2009. "Rape" is used to describe experiences such as a sports loss or being on the losing end of a business deal. This drains the word of meaning.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. April 22, 2009. Paranoid anti-government radicals used to have to rely on crude, inefficient methods of communication. Now they have Fox News.
Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer. April 20, 2009. TV spin-meisters claim that violence from Mexico's drug trade threatens to spill over into the U.S. This is pure fear mongering.
Fatima Sultan Syed, World Pulse. March 2, 2009. Fatima Sultan Syed pierces the shroud obscuring one of the world's most enduring conflicts -- a brutal 60-year dispute over her homeland of Kashmir.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. February 24, 2009. Governments across the planet are preparing for a surge of violent protests from economic upheaval. Wars may follow.
Martin Luther King, Jr., AlterNet. January 19, 2009. As we face possible military escalation in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, King's speech against the Vietnam war is more relevant than ever.