BY Audrey Mantey
The last time I attended CPR training, I walked out partway through the session and didn’t return.
We were told ahead of time that we’d be training on Resusci Anne, the type of CPR dummy that is wiped down with alcohol between uses, and whose chest, the instructor said, makes a loud popping noise […]

this statement is seeking endorsements
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On the imminent execution of three women in Iraq:
THERE ARE TWO PARTS TO THIS MESSAGE:
1. STATEMENT in English, Arabic and French.
Please click here to endorse:
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/hanging.htm for other languages and updates
2. What we can do (PRACTICAL ACTION) .
PART ONE: STATEMENT
We are working to gather endorsers for this statement and to
constitute a […]

Bush is not responsible for the war in Iraq. Al Gore said during his campaign against Bush II that Bush I should have finished the job; and we never tire of pretending these days that the Clinton-Gore government was not attacking Iraq…. they were, regularly and lethally. War is inherent to civilization; and […]

With the Republican Party on the political ropes, so to speak, about the war, and the Democrats increasingly under siege from their left on the issue of cutting war funds, it’s been hard to keep pace with developments the last few days. In between just doing life-stuff, I think I try harder than most to […]

A talk I gave last month at a Marxist workshop at NYU hosted by Professor Bertell Ollman, that I think intersects with the points you are raising.
This talk would be focused differently if I was giving it to a “community” group, or even an anarchist group. Here, I too am especially concerned with the praxis […]

The existence of state-sponsored torture is decried by social critics on the Left, yet the identical treatment of women in prostitution is ignored by those same analysts. Many view torture by the United States of prisoners at Abu Ghraib with shock and horror, yet at the same time consider the identical acts perpetrated (and photographed) […]

Between the hyperventilated coverage of Anna Nicole’s autopsy today, a peculiar news story squeezed in as filler. YouTube is posting videos, taken with cell phones by students, of teachers in public school classrooms having violent, abusive outbursts. I saw this on MSNBC while I was dusting blinds, and it stopped me in my tracks.
The most […]

It’s easy, if you’re willing to use the internet as a by-pass medium to get around the funders that control both parties.
All other things being the same, there are five issues you can emphasize that will get you enough of the independent and Democrat crossover vote to win in the General Elections in 2008, and […]

From Sara Rich
Good Order and Discipline
From Suzanne’s case to the world at large
In thinking about this phrase “Good Order and Discipline” and its impact on my family, I have to come to the conclusion that the people defining “Good Order and Discipline” for Suzanne’s case are comparable to the Commander and Chief. They share his […]

From Insurgent American
Editorial intervention from Stan Goff
De Clarke forwarded the latest from Jim Kunstler via Life After the Oil Crash (LATOC), wherein Kunstler manages to drip his “critique” of Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy with effortless sexism and racism, and LATOC follows on enthusiastically with references to “bitch-slapping” contests.
We are obliged, then, as a site […]