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 [...]
A MILITARY DRONE BASE RIGHT HERE IN BROOKSVILLE! “A PARANOID PORTION” OF THE POPULATION PROTESTS. With the support of Senator Bill Nelson, an aviation authority applies to Hernando County FL to locate there one of the 6 drone sites slated for development in the U.S. Protests are launched by a Nature Coast peace group [...]
HAS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR ARCTIC DRILLING BEEN REALIZED IN ALASKA? Warnings from scientists and environmental activists that unchecked oil drilling in the Arctic could lead to a potential disaster may have come to some semblance of fruition after a massive Shell Oil rig became grounded in a remote section of the pristine [...]
HOT TIME AT THE OLD BYRD RESEARCH STATION. Temperature readings at this oceanographic station in southwest Antarctica indicates that the ice cap is heating at twice the rate that climatologists had predicted, raising the image of likely melting that could raise ocean levels by a disastrous ten feet within a few years. (Common Dreams) [...]
IS “HOMOSEXUALITY” REALLY COMPARABLE TO “MURDER”? This is the logically strained case made by one of the men who will likely decide the fate of the marriage equality movement in America. The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases directly relating to same-sex marriage rights; the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s [...]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY COMES OUT OF 2012 ELECTIONS A BIG WINNER Questions regarding gay marriage rights and marriage equality were victorious on four state ballots this past Tuesday in what LGBT activists are calling a crucial turning point in national recognition of same sex marriage. The wins in Maine, Maryland Minnesota and Washington represent a [...]
DEATH BY “VIDEO GAME” IN PAKISTAN. Human rights attorney in the country has instituted, on behalf of a journalist who lost both his son and brother to drone attacks launched from remote bases in Nevada, law suits against two Pakistani-based C.I.A. agents deemed responsible for calling in air strikes against supposedly “militant” targets, [...]
“MARRIAGE IS THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY.” These opening words of the 1996 federal welfare-reform law symbolize the prejudice in American society to the favor married persons and to the disadvantage of those who live alone or in unmarried cohabitation. “Bridefare” public policies express this prejudice, whether in the form of “defense of marriage” insistence [...]
KWAME NKRUMAH’S DREAM OF A “UNITED STATES OF AFRICA” HAS MORPHED INTO—THE AFRICOM MILITARY DOMINATION OF THE COUNTRY. The leader of Ghana was deposed by a U.S.-backed coup 1966, as was his successor, visionary Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Now, in what Glenn Ford describes as a process of Africa “re-enslaving itself,” 53 [...]
“WE CANNOT FIGHT WARS BY POLLS”: LEON PANETTA JUST HAD HIS OWN “DICK CHENEY” MOMENT (Army Times) ` In March of 2008, with the war in Iraq dragging on and every opinion poll showing rising public anger over the American occupation of that country, then-Vice President Dick Cheney famously dismissed public anger by responding [...]
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