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In a chilling letter allegedly written by Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapping suspect admits to his crimes but blames his three female victims for getting into the car with him in the first place.
Posted on May 9, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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AP/Tony Dejak
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The three women who were kidnapped and held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade were raped, beaten mercilessly while pregnant, kept in ropes and chains and forced to crawl around on their hands and knees naked in the backyard by their captors, according to reports.
Posted on May 8, 2013
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Despite the principal’s plea to not report the attack, the victim filed charges against the basketball player out of fear he would strike again. Those fears were confirmed just two weeks later when he is said to have sexually assaulted another student. The story gets even more heartbreaking as it progresses.
Posted on Apr 24, 2013
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By Ann Jones, TomDispatch —
Picture this. A man bursts into a living room not his own. He confronts an enemy. He barks orders. He throws that enemy into a chair. The invader isn’t an American soldier leading a night raid on an Afghan village, nor is the enemy an anonymous Afghan householder. This warrior is just a guy in Ohio named Shane, and he’s doing what so many men find exhilarating: disciplining his girlfriend.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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In the aftermath of its slanted coverage of the Steubenville rape trial verdict Sunday, CNN has faced enormous criticism for focusing on the convicted rapists rather than the 16-year-old victim.
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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By Nick Turse, TomDispatch —
On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a rare one involving American GIs that actually made its way into the military justice system.
Posted on Mar 19, 2013
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AP/Carolyn Kaster
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told a panel of judge advocate generals that their supposed efforts to resolve the military’s sexual abuse crisis were not enough.
Posted on Mar 16, 2013
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On Wednesday, a Senate Armed Services subcommittee held a hearing to discuss rape and sexual assault in the military, the first one in nearly a decade. During the hearing, military lawyers answered questions about how the armed services handle such cases. But their answers left Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand “extremely disturbed.”
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including the newest Bowles-Simspson deficit reduction proposal and a Democratic lawmaker under fire for a rape remark.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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AP/Khalil Hamra
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By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — He couldn’t have been more than 19. His clothes were cheap and his sparse yet unshaven facial hair was indistinguishable from the dirt on his cheeks. He was with another kid on the other side of a kiosk and couldn’t see that I was listening.
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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flickr/abardwell
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Here’s some more backward thinking from the political party that introduced terms such as “legitimate rape,” “forcible rape,” “easy rape” and “enjoyable rape” into the national lexicon.
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch —
We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern.
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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Flickr/DonkeyHotey
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Election season is well and truly over, but that’s not stopping some in the Republican Party from continuing their campaign of saying crazy misogynist things showing how out of touch they are with issues pertaining to women and their bodies.
Posted on Jan 17, 2013
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AP/A.M. Ahad
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In a truly detestable and heinous example of victim-blaming and outright misogyny, Manohar Lal Sharma, the lawyer for three of the six men charged with raping and killing 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey, had the audacity to say—on the record—that he’s never “seen a single incident” of a “respected lady” getting raped.
Posted on Jan 9, 2013
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AP/Tsering Topgyal
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“We want the world to know her real name,” the devastated dad told The Sunday People newspaper. “My daughter didn’t do anything wrong; she died while protecting herself.”
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Flickr/SalFalko
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A California appeals court has decided that an 18-year-old woman technically wasn’t raped by a man who had sex with her while she was asleep because he was pretending to be her boyfriend. But if the woman had been married and the man had been impersonating her husband? The court acknowledged the outcome would have been different.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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The disturbing 12-minute video features athletes from Steubenville High School in Ohio making fun of a 16-year-old girl who was allegedly kidnapped and raped by two of the school’s star football players last summer.
Posted on Jan 2, 2013
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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Dec 31, 2012
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By Alexander Reed Kelly — When the law lags behind, it’s up to digital do-gooders such as @KYAnonymous to protect the privacy and physical safety of those put at risk by “revenge porn” predators like Hunter Moore.
Posted on Dec 8, 2012
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Flickr/anslem23
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In a truly shameful and terrible act of victim blaming, a lawyer for one of the adult males charged in the gang rape of an 11-year-old Cleveland, Texas, girl likened the child survivor to a spider that lures victim into its web.
Posted on Nov 28, 2012
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Conservatives have posited numerous theories as to why Mitt Romney lost the election, but one put forward by radio talk show rabble-rouser Michael Graham is probably the most ludicrous and absurd.
Posted on Nov 9, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including some winners and losers from Tuesday’s election and Jon Stewart weighs in on the Missouri Senate race between Claire McCaskill and Todd Akin.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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Mourdock, whose candidacy lost traction after he said pregnancy resulting from rape was “something God intended to happen,” has lost his bid for the U.S. Senate to Democrat Joe Donnelly.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons/Joho345
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Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt says he will give Todd Akin the monetary reward if the Missouri GOP Senate candidate can substantiate his controversial comments about rape and abortion.
Posted on Nov 3, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces his endorsement and another GOP political candidate says something dumb about rape.
Posted on Nov 1, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Oct 28, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Colin Powell offers his endorsement and yet another CEO tries to get his employees to vote for Mitt Romney.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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AP/ Michael Conroy
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — Republican Richard Mourdock tells us that a pregnancy resulting from a rape is “a gift of God” and in doing so seeks to deny the religious freedom of women.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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The president touched on, among other things, the ridiculous rape comments made recently by GOP Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, and Donald Trump’s dud of an October surprise.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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Here we go again. Another Republican congressional candidate dared to open his mouth about rape and something insane came out. Would you expect anything less by now?
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Wisconsin Republican who says “some girls rape easy,” why Todd Akin should never be allowed to weigh in on scientific matters again and two congressional candidates nearly come to blows at a debate.
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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A private school in Depok City, Indonesia, reportedly has reversed a decision to expel a 14-year-old girl the school said had “tarnished the institution’s image” by being kidnapped and raped by members of a human trafficking syndicate.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why Mitt Romney says his heart aches, the GOP is back to supporting Todd Akin and his ridiculous “legitimate rape” comments, and the latest Fox News failure.
Posted on Sep 26, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including why women in New Mexico may soon have to prove they were “forcibly raped” to get welfare and one of Jon Stewart’s most epic takedowns of Fox News.
Posted on Sep 20, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a rape remark from the wife of Todd Akin and Christine O’Donnell mulls another run for public office.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Todd Akin back on the campaign trail and news on a birtherism convention.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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Flickr/Shameek
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The former secretary of state articulated in an interview Monday what quite a few people have probably thought but not publicly stated, especially given the GOP’s recent assault against women’s rights.
Posted on Sep 3, 2012
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This latest mind-blowing, idiotic remark comes courtesy of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, who said something eerily similar to Missouri GOP candidate Todd Akin, the man who claimed women rarely get pregnant as a result of rape.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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What happens when the predatory interests of a national security state and those of women’s rights advocates seem to coincide, as in the case of WikiLeaks publisher and accused rapist Julian Assange? A murky witch hunt, in which some liberals forget that suspects are innocent until proven guilty, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in The Nation.
Posted on Aug 31, 2012
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Jon Stewart and company missed an eventful week during their recent hiatus, but they’re back just in time for the Republican National Convention. And also to talk about the most important issues of the campaign: Todd Akin and vaginas.
Posted on Aug 29, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including some highlights of Day 2 of the Republican National Convention.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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Rep. Paul Ryan, who comes from the party that brought you such ridiculous notions as women rarely get pregnant from “legitimate rape” and a child conceived from rape is just like a child born out of wedlock, added one more to the chorus of stupid GOP ideas on rape during a recent interview.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including first day highlights of the Republican National Convention and Mark Sanford makes wedding plans.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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