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By Raul Hilberg
By Juan Cole
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com —
Posted on May 15, 2013
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Angelina Jolie made her fortune as one of the most beautiful women in the world, and after having a double mastectomy to prevent against breast cancer, she writes, “I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.”
Posted on May 14, 2013
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It turns out America hasn’t cornered the market on reprehensible politicians. The mayor of Osaka, Japan’s third-largest city, just said the 200,000 female slaves who were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II were part of a “necessary” system.
Posted on May 13, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on May 8, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a bipartisan gun control deal collapses in the Senate and a Texas congressman makes insulting comments about the Boston Marathon bombings.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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Most Wikipedia contributors are men, but that doesn’t justify the fact that females are so poorly represented on the site; much to many priests’ chagrin, the Roman Catholic Church unwittingly bought part of a building that houses Europe’s largest gay sauna; meanwhile, ZIP codes serve as more than just locating devices as they have come to define identities and divide communities. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 13, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 7, 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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As though we don’t have enough absurd laws in the U.S., a new one has passed criminalizing the unlocking of mobile devices; the U.S. is spending $400,000 a day to keep innocent people incarcerated in Guantanamo; and this Sunday is the Super Bowl, when we watch men cause one another brain trauma. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 30, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jan 29, 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: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Robert Scheer and Nick Turse on the American doctrine of eradication; women in combat; and the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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AP/Kristin M. Hall
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Mark this as a moment of progress in the struggle for gender equality in America. The Pentagon has announced its plans to let your mother, girlfriend and daughter kill and be killed on a battlefield.
Posted on Jan 24, 2013
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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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Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Jan 15, 2013
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By Susan Zakin — When “Zero Dark Thirty” opens nationally Friday, many moviegoers will already have made up their minds.
Posted on Jan 11, 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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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Jan 5, 2013
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Researchers discovered subtle changes in the mental processes of women in the year after their final menstrual period, a phase called early post-menopause.
Posted on Jan 5, 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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According to anti-feminist and backward-thinking author Charlotte Allen, the killing spree in Newtown, Conn., could have been avoided if only another man had been there and the setting hadn’t been so “feminized.”
Posted on Dec 19, 2012
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“Listen to me, bros,” comedian Silverman says. “If you love your mother and your sister, and if you ever want to see a vagina ever again, I got a couple rules for you.”
Posted on Dec 12, 2012
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Former Bush administration White House press secretary Dana Perino offered up the piece of victim-blaming advice Wednesday while discussing the recent deaths of NFL player Javon Belcher and his girlfriend.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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“Surrender the Secret” will follow five women who have had abortions “on their journey together to ... healing and self-forgiveness.” Because obviously the best place for these women to heal is on an online reality show that is publicly shaming them for their life choices.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — We are going from “The Year of the Woman”—that was 1992—to decades of the woman. And it is not only politics anymore.
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
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AP/Michael Dwyer
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Women will make up 19 percent of Congress when new members are sworn in in January. But given that females make up more than half of the population in this country, why isn’t that number higher?
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
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AP/Michael Dwyer
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Tuesday’s election saw women take a record number of seats in the U.S. Senate. One-fifth of the legislative body no longer belongs to the good old boys.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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White House/Pete Souza
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — This playlist sums up the winners and losers from the biggest political bash in the last four years.
Posted on Nov 10, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a CEO who claims he fired employees because of Obama’s victory, and Ted Nugent, who has a meltdown over the election on Twitter.
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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AP/Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — Record numbers of Latino voters almost certainly gave Obama Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania and, thus, the presidency.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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While Mitt Romney tries to make us believe socialism is evil, working mothers in France are evidence to the contrary; several stories about employers insisting their employees vote for Romney have come to light; meanwhile, activists in Guatemala are peacefully protesting mining in San José del Golfo in spite of violence against them. These discoveries and more.
Posted on Nov 4, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Nov 2, 2012
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Women, war and support for alternative candidates could all decide the election, which remains extremely close.
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Women, war and support for alternative candidates could all decide the election, which remains extremely close.
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 27, 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/Richard Drew
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Women who land jobs right out of college earn just 82 percent of what their male colleagues are paid after one year, the American Association of University Women reports.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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