February 2012
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Why I am an atheist –
It’s not that I’m an atheist, it’s that god doesn’t...
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The central linchpin of Endless War and civil liberties erosions is keeping fear...
– Glenn Greenwald
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Iran Nuclear Coverage Echoes Iraq War Media Frenzy
NEW YORK — Military strikes expected! Weapons inspectors called in! A murky al Qaeda connection! And Cheney says time’s up for Ira…
Wait. Haven’t we seen this movie before?
It’s already been a decade since the media hyped bogus WMD claims prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But it sure feels like 2002 for anyone who was around then and is now scanning newspaper...
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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...
– bell hooks (via mustardhat)
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Female Dems Walk Out on House Contraception... →
socialismartnature:
This is awesome, but they also need to walk out of their own Party which has for years been ceding miles of ground to the right-wing on the question of abortion and reproductive justice.
I’m through with any Party which will not proudly stand up and lead the charge in the fight for women’s rights. Period. I’m done with compromise and niceties. We need revolutionary social...
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Even if the rape victim is a 15-year-old girl raped again and again on her own...
– (via womenaresociety)
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...
– Jim Morrison (via arrears)
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There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some...
– Friedrich Nietzsche
(via italkedaboutfantasies)
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I want to go down in history
In a chapter marked “miscellaneous”
Because the...
– Staceyann Chin
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The sharpest edges of President Obama’s counterterrorism policy, including the...
– Poll finds broad support for Obama’s counterterrorism policies
Despicable and hypocritical.
(via solitaryforager)
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thegermansmakegoodstuff:
Will Potter’s Green is the New Red is a book about the government’s ever increasing tendency to classify activism as terrorism.
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The ACLU yesterday filed a lawsuit against various...
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FBI probes Anonymous intercept of US-UK hacking...
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Manning to face court martial over WikiLeaks
A private charged in the biggest leak of classified information in US history will face a general court martial, the army has said.
Major General Michael Linnington, commander of the Washington military district overseeing the prosecution of Private First Class Bradley Manning, announced the decision on Friday.
Linnington’s statement follows a six-week-long Article 32 hearing, during...
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Afghan civilian death toll hits 'record high' UN... →
January 2012
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I want to make sure people understand actually drones have not caused a huge...
– Barack Obama on the drone program that kills 1 militant for every 10-15 civilians. (via jonathan-cunningham)