MORE THAN 70 US SERVICEMEMBERS ARE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED EVERY DAY AS EPIDEMIC OF SEX CRIMES IN MILITARY GRABS NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT. A new report from the Pentagon finally admits the vast extent of the US military’s crisis of sexual assault, with data showing at least 26,000 members of the armed forces were assaulted last year, the [...]
NO JOY IN LEOPOLDVILLE: AMERICANS MAY JUST HAVE VOTED FOR FOUR MORE YEARS OF CONGOLESE GENOCIDE. This is the view of Glen Ford, commenting on a U.S. election whose winner has, under the guise of “peace-keeping” in a “civil war” situations, been fomenting, through proxy African governments, the very genocidal violence that has killed [...]
WHEN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS DIE, CAN THE DEATH OF COMMUNITY CITIZENSHIP BE FAR BEHIND? This question is addressed by Jessica Bruder in a feature article in the Christian Science Monitor. Her article is keynoted by a mournful style New Orleans funeral on the occasion of the drastic reduction of newspaper publication in favor of more [...]
U.S. MILITARY SLOW TO CONVICT SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF RAPE AND OTHER SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES—BUT QUICK TO THREATEN DISCIPLINE OF A WHISTLE-BLOWER FROM MILITARY CRIME LAB. McClatchy Newspapers publishes a report on the disposition of such charges and shows that less than 10% of them result in convictions. In another part of the wider [...]
“WHO GIVES A CRAP ABOUT SOME IMBECILE?” (Counterpunch) This question is attributed to Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. He is referring to the “99%” of the Occupy movement, and his utterance is used by Mike Lofgren to keynote a description of how the rich in America [...]
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