Published on Sunday, May 31, 2009 by The Boston Globe Tracking the War on Women in Darfur Boston doctors detail accounts of rape, assault by James F. Smith Seated on a woven straw mat in a refugee camp in eastern Chad, Dr. Sondra Crosby of the Boston Medical Center listened with mounting distress as the [...]
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Tracking the War on Women in Darfur
May 31, 2009Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy
May 31, 2009Published on Sunday, May 31, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy by George Lakoff The Sotomayor nomination has given radical conservatives new life. They have launched an attack that is nominally aimed at Judge Sotomayor. But it is really a coordinated stealth attack – on President Obama’s central vision, on [...]
Prof Miguel Diaz selected for Vatican Seat
May 30, 2009He sounds like a great choice. http://www.catholicdemocrats.org/news/2009/05/prof_miguel_diaz_selected_for.php#more « Catholic Democrats rush to support one of their own in bid for seat on Supreme Court | Main Prof Miguel Diaz selected for Vatican post; 1st theologian to serve Boston, MA — Catholic Democrats has praise for the appointment of Dr. Miguel Diaz, Professor of Theology at St. [...]
Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad
May 30, 2009Published on Saturday, May 30, 2009 by The New York Times Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad by Katie Zezima RANDOLPH CENTER, Vt. – When Ken Preston went organic on his dairy farm here in 2005, he figured that doing so would guarantee him what had long been elusive: a stable, high price [...]
The Barbaric Heart
May 30, 2009Published on Saturday, May 30, 2009 by Orion Magazine The Barbaric Heart by Curtis White There is a fundamental question that environmentalists are not very good at asking, let alone answering: “Why is this, the destruction of the natural world, happening?” We ordinarily think of environmentalists as people who care about something called nature or [...]
The Silent Suffering
May 30, 2009Published on Saturday, May 30, 2009 by The Guardian/UK The Silent Suffering by Rajendra Pachauri Science is now unequivocal as to the reality of climate change. However, one facet – its human face – has been dangerously neglected. Until now. Given what the science tells us about global warming, how many people around the world [...]
Torturing Democracy Video
May 30, 2009http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/ Here is the link to the video. I am watching it now. The first part was very good. It is not pleasant to watch, but the truth is not always pleasant. I would encourage everyone to watch this video. Chrisy
Everyone Should See ‘Torturing Democracy’
May 30, 2009Published on Saturday, May 30, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Everyone Should See ‘Torturing Democracy’ by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship In all the recent debate over torture, many of our Beltway pundits and politicians have twisted themselves into verbal contortions to avoid using the word at all. During his speech to the conservative American Enterprise Institute [...]
Health Care Activists Lament Single-Payer Snub
May 30, 2009Published on Saturday, May 30, 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle Health Care Activists Lament Single-Payer Snub by Victoria Colliver Frustrated by the exclusion of government-financed medical care from the debate to revamp the nation’s troubled health system, advocates of a “single-payer” plan are increasingly turning to demonstrations and civil disobedience as a way to [...]
Headzup: Tom Tancredo Jumps The Racist Shark On Sotomayor
May 30, 2009Headzup: Tom Tancredo Jumps The Racist Shark On Sotomayor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnDk-Q2ivIo&feature=player_embedded
