Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journalism? Think Again
From Free Press: http://www.freepress.net/blog/2013/01/03/think-media-consolidation-good-journalism-think-again Josh Stearns January 3, 2013 The Federal Communications Commission is pushing a plan to...
View Article‘Flaming Homosexuals Wearing Stilettos’ Will Apply For Jobs In Christian...
Maybe the bigots are the ones who need to be studied and not LGBT people. Studying us to figure out why we are oppressed is like studying rape victims to figure out why they were raped. From The New...
View ArticleAre Middle-Aged Women Done With Men?
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-larson/are-middleaged-women-done_b_2297847.html Vicki Larson 01/05/2013 Not too long ago, I asked a friend how she’s doing. After a long...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Homophobia?
From In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14286/whos_afraid_of_homophobia The Associated Press’s decision to favor ‘anti-gay’ over ‘homophobic’ isn’t as bad as some say. BY Achy Obejas...
View ArticleProstitutes in Israel Are Finding New Lives in Training for the Fashion World
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/world/middleeast/israel-prostitutes-find-new-lives-in-fashion-courses.html By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: January 3, 2013 TEL AVIV — For 20...
View ArticleOregon Insurance Division: Law Requires Transgender Equality in Medical Care
From PQ Monthly: http://www.pqmonthly.com/oregon-insurance-division-law-requires-transgender-equality-in-medical-care/ by Erin Rook Friday, January 4th, 2013 Transgender individuals are routinely...
View ArticleOur protest must shortcircuit the fossil fuel interests blocking Barack Obama
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/06/fossil-fuel-special-interests-barack-obama The pace of climate change action promised by this pragmatic president is just too...
View ArticleWill Shell’s Rig Grounding Thwart Its Arctic Oil Plans?
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/06-1 Andrea Germanos, staff writer Published on Sunday, January 6, 2013 by Common Dreams The grounding of Shell’s oil drilling rig...
View ArticleThe war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame?
Other than the murder of the Indian woman what real difference is there between how rapist are treated there and how rapist football players are treated here? Misogyny is misogyny where ever it occurs....
View ArticleThe Real Causes of Divorce — America Has to Stop Blaming It on Women
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/visions/real-causes-divorce-america-has-stop-blaming-it-women Stereotypes about women’s behavior totally obscure the driving forces that can split a marriage. By...
View ArticleIdle No More Actions Target Bridges, Movement Vows ‘We Are Here to Stay’
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/05-1 Series of actions on Saturday shuts down US-Canadian bridge Andrea Germanos, staff writer Published on Saturday, January 5, 2013...
View ArticleThe Blessings of Atheism
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/the-blessings-of-atheism.html By SUSAN JACOBY Published: January 5, 2013 In a recent conversation with a fellow journalist, I...
View ArticleMarriage equality’s biggest foe sees she can’t fight the new family values
From Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/06/1176169/-Marriage-equality-s-biggest-foe-sees-she-can-t-fight-the-new-family-values Scott Wooledge Sun Jan 06, 2013 The nationally syndicated...
View ArticleGetEQUAL To Obama: Hagel’s Anti-LGBT History Makes Him Unacceptable For Defense
From The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/1-getequal-to-obama-hagels-anti-lgbt-history-makes-him-unacceptable-for-defense/politics/2013/01/04/57737 by David Badash on...
View ArticleDoctor under fire for alleged errors prescribing sex-change hormones
BTW It was cases like this that led to those odious Standards of Care with the excessive Psychiatric screening in the first place. The patient should be told no deal, no grounds for a law suit. Any...
View ArticleJohn Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/09-0 by Medea Benjamin Published on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 by Common Dreams In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a...
View ArticleHank Greenberg Should Be Shot into Space For Suing the Government over the...
From Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/hank-greenberg-should-be-shot-into-space-for-suing-the-government-over-the-aig-bailout-20130109 By Matt Taibbi January 9, 2013...
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