Manning’s Difficult Choices Have Paved the Way For a Harrowing Future
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/mannings-difficult-choices-have-paved-way-harrowing-future Whatever her future, one thing is clear: Chelsea Manning has made a great sacrifice by...
View ArticleChelsea Manning’s Identity Crisis Is One Jews Should Relate To
From The Jewish Daily Forward: http://forward.com/articles/183262/chelsea-mannings-identity-crisis-is-one-jews-shoul/ Why We Should Care About WikiLeaks Figure’s Gender Change By Jay Michaelson...
View ArticleIt’s Not War, So Stop Saying That
From Truth-Out: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18609-its-not-war-so-stop-saying-that By William Rivers Pitt Thursday, 05 September 2013 The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along...
View ArticleSyria crisis: Kerry says west must not be ‘silent spectators to the slaughter’
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/kerry-us-allies-syria-spectators-slaughter Secretary of state visits Paris and says Obama is yet to decide whether US will delay...
View ArticleBrutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/world/middleeast/brutality-of-syrian-rebels-pose-dilemma-in-west.html?hp&_r=1& By C. J. CHIVERS Published: September 5, 2013 The...
View ArticleObama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/obama-reframes-syria-meta_b_3879335.html George Lakoff 09/06/2013 President Obama has reframed his position on Syria, adjusting the...
View ArticleStopping Barry O’Bomber’s Rush to War
From Ralph Nader: http://nader.org/2013/09/06/stopping-barry-obombers-rush-to-war/ Ralph Nader Sept. 6, 2013 Dear President Obama: Little did your school boy chums in Hawaii, watching you race up and...
View ArticleCalifornia Legislature Passes Trans Birth Certificate Bill
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2013/09/07/california-legislature-passes-trans-birth-certificate-bill Assembly Bill 1121, which would provide transgender Californians...
View ArticleTransgender Workers at Greater Risk for Unemployment and Poverty
From The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: http://thetaskforceblog.org/2013/09/06/transgender-workers-at-greater-risk-for-unemployment-and-poverty/ September 6, 2013 A new report released today...
View ArticleThe Politics of Private Manning
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-a-brownworth/the-politics-of-private-m_b_3823864.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Victoria A. Brownworth 08/28/2013 I’ve written a lot about...
View ArticlePolitical power on two wheels: Don’t mess with the bikers!
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/07/political_power_on_two_wheels_dont_mess_with_the_bikers/ Forget Boss Tweed or newspaper endorsements: There’s a surprising new political power in big cities...
View ArticleNew NOAA Report Confirms Climate Change Is Intensifying Extreme Heat and Storms
From Natural resources Defense Council: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/fbeinecke/new_noaa_report_confirms_clima.html Frances Beinecke September 6, 2013 When an extreme heat wave blasted the country...
View ArticleGlobal Power Project, Part 10: TransCanada Corporation, Kings of the Keystone...
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18667-global-power-project-part-10-transcanada-corporation-kings-of-the-keystone-pipeline By Andrew Gavin Marshall Saturday, 07 September 2013...
View ArticleThe Senate’s Syria Resolution Has a Huge Secret Giveaway to the President
From The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/09/the-senates-syria-resolution-has-a-huge-secret-giveaway-to-the-president/279421/ Though Congress plays at narrowing Obama’s...
View ArticleSyria: March to Disaster
From Eric Margolis: http://ericmargolis.com/2013/09/syria-march-to-disaster/ Eric Margolis Sept. 7, 2013 Recalling the massacres and destruction during the 1820’s Greek war of independence from the...
View ArticleThe Repetition Compulsion for War — and How It Might Fail This Time
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/07 by Norman Solomon Published on Saturday, September 7, 2013 by Common Dreams No matter how many times we’ve seen it before, the frenzy...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
From In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/15565/what_happened_to_the_anti_war_movement/ The short answer: partisanship. BY David Sirota September 6, 2013 A mere 72 hours after President...
View ArticlePutin’s War On Gays ‘A Call To Violence’ Says Russian LGBT Journalist
From The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/get-us-the-hell-out-of-here-putins-war-on-gays-a-call-to-violence-says-lgbt-journalist/politics/2013/09/08/74662 by David...
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