February 2012
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“The legacy of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is still in the making. Those who believe...”
– Gary Younge
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Sexual violence against women is the result of the... →
Gloria Steinem writes for us about the “false image of manhood that makes men act violently and risk their lives against their own interests as humans”.
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“It is difficult for many of us to imagine what it is like to feel trapped in a...”
– Philippa Perry writes about gender and the tyranny of the ‘normal’
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Do you work unpaid overtime?
It’s Work Your Proper Hours Day today – but do you routinely work for longer, without getting paid for it?
[we created a poll for this here]
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Why I said yes to Professor Self
Legendary novelist Will Self writes about why working at a university with people who pursue knowledge for its intrinsic value is truly liberating:
Here are two contrasting experiences. I read a short story I have written to a group of people, and when I’ve finished I invite questions, stressing that these can be as broad or specific as they wish. The first questioner wants to know how...
“It’s not agonizing, it’s not shameful, it’s not particularly interesting. The...”
– Thought for Food: My abortion
Today in brave, smart, powerful women. You must click through and read the entire thing.
Thanks for sharing your truth, Nora.
(via apsies)
A must read.
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“My husband, Khadr Adnan, has now become a household name across the world. Four...”
– Randa Musa is married to hungerstriker Khadr Adnan, who is 66 days in his protest. Read the rest of her piece here.
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Is the US the only country where more men are... →
Jill Filipovic on rapes in the US penitentiary system:
For 2008, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed instances of sexual abuse. After asking around, and performing some calculations, the Justice Department came up with a new number: 216,000.
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“He could easily not have known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of...”
– File this under #WTF? Lawyer Henri Leclerc on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is to be questioned today by French police investigating his alleged involvement in an prostitution ring.
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“For the last few weeks I’ve been fielding calls from China to Italy...”
– Historian Nancy L Cohen asks why this election is all about sex
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“She hasn’t yet filled the post or filed a single line of copy, but the...”
– Rachel Shabi on why false accusations of antisemitism desensitise us to the real thing
Megan Greenwell: Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012 →
megangreenwell:
Shortly after David Hoffman, then the foreign editor of The Washington Post, overcame all of his better judgement and decided to send my 23-year-old intern self to Baghdad, he told me to go talk to Anthony Shadid, who was in Washington on book leave. It’s safe to say this prospect terrified me…
A must read.
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Red Light Politics: About medical attention →
redlightpolitics:
iusedtoknowwhattosay replied to your quote: Doctors at the Odense University Hospital…
I am officially ashamed to be part of the human race today. Can I opt out and claim I am an alien from outer space and distance myself completely from those humans on this planet
I don’t think I ever…
Shameful.
“The case of Hamza Kashgari, a young Saudi journalist who has just been deported...”
– Andrew Brown on the bloodlust faced by the ‘blaspheming’ Saudi journalist
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Noam Chomsky on the American decline
In which scholar Noam Chomsky puts the American decline in perspective [part 1]
At the moment, we are failing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of President John F Kennedy’s decision to launch the most destructive and murderous act of aggression of the post-second world war period: the invasion of South Vietnam, later all of Indochina, leaving millions dead and four countries...
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“The trouble with historical metaphors is that they can obscure the present:...”
– Maria Margaronis, What’s really at stake in the European/Greek debt crisis
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When Arnie met Sly... can you caption the moment?
Photo credit: Arnold Schwarzenegger/Who Say
It’s not often the modern world witnesses the meeting of two great minds – think the Chomsky-Foucault debate in 1971, the first time Lennon met McCartney in 1957 or even Hitchens and Blair in 2010. But does this tender moment between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone – captured in a hospital this week as the two ageing action stars...
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“I became disabled in 2009. My new condition left me unable to work, and I also...”
– We asked disabled readers to write about how they are perceived by the general public. A heartbreaking panel.
Astroturfing: what is it, and why does it matter?... →
