[Hat tip to LT] ‘You’re consenting to being raped for money’ A second series of the television drama The Secret Diary of a Call Girl – about a prostitute who loves her work – has been commissioned. Appalled at the sanitised picture it portrays, a woman who charges for sex tells Emine Saner what her [...]

A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. WHOLE STORY *Hat tip to Amee Chew* WARNING: very vivid and disturbing story

Annie Leonard on Stuff Fritjof Capra on Systems

The Oppression and Silencing of Women Journalists and Bloggers Worldwide In the spring of 2007, what began as a series of insults and criticisms of blogger and game developer Kathy Sierra of the blog Head Rush1 took a grim and sobering turn as the insults became increasingly threatening, progressing to threats of death and sexual [...]

{from Kelly Dougherty, Executive Director, Iraq Veterans Against the War} http://www.ivaw.org/newsletters/12.7newsletter.html I regret to bring you the sad news of the death of one of our IVAW members, Sammantha Owen-Ewing. Last Monday, November 26, Sammantha Owen-Ewing, one of IVAW’s newest members, the wife of my friend Scott, and a former Army medic like me, committed [...]

James Minton’s fine film record of the Veterans and Survivors March for Peace and Justice (March 2006) from Mobile to New Orleans. Enjoy.

There is a common misconception among environmentalists and peak-oilers (I count myself among both) that cars created the suburbs. The car suburb, however, became what it is with regard to cars only incidentally. The real motive for the suburbs was plain garden-variety white supremacy. Cars simply became necessary to facilitate the spatial segregation that simultaneously [...]

…never before in human history have so few people (proportionately speaking) had anything to do with the growth of their own food. The steady migration of people from farms or rural areas to cities or suburbs, a migration pattern now being replicated across the globe, means that very few of us have any realistic or [...]

No: 4.522.332, 51,05 % Yes: 4.335.136, 48.94 % With the vast majority of the media owned and operated by Venezuela’s racist comprador bourgeoisie, a media that has never suffered a day of government control even approaching what is exercised against media in the United States, the Constitutional Referendum that had bundled 69 reforms failed by [...]

Saudi Arabia is bristling at international criticism over the sentencing of a rape victim to prison and 200 lashes [for adultery], insisting that the West should stay out of its legal system. But the case could empower voices for change in the kingdom’s Islamic courts. FULL Meanwhile, back in the US of A: After surviving [...]