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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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A military action that was sold to Americans as short and inexpensive may come to cost us $3.7 trillion; Sen. Rob Portman has come out in support of same-sex marriage thanks to his gay son, but doesn’t seem interested in women’s rights despite having a daughter; meanwhile, the hacker who brought you the Bush family’s emails has exposed communications between a White House adviser and the Clintons. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 18, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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By Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch —
On Aug. 27, 1970, 50,000 women marched down New York City’s Fifth Avenue, announcing the birth of a new movement. They demanded three rights: legal abortion, universal child care and equal pay. Those three demands, and a fourth one that couldn’t yet be articulated, have yet to be met.
Posted on Feb 21, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss whether President Obama’s inaugural speech means he’s becoming the liberal Ronald Reagan. They also consider whether the Pentagon’s lifting of the ban on women in combat is social progress or simply a military necessity.
Posted on Jan 25, 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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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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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Aug 26, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Aug 23, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Feb 4, 2012
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Human rights organizations are on the offensive as groups mobilize pressure against Ireland’s ban on abortion, accusing the government of a deliberate campaign of misinformation and exposing women to undue risk by forcing them to travel abroad for abortions.
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Remember when protecting women’s rights was given as a justification for invading countries? Well, the U.S. general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the reasons why a soldier could be court-martialed—a list that includes selling weapons and taking drugs.
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Although it was sadly not an isolated incident, the bloody death by stoning of a 17-year-old girl has sparked controversy about sectarian strife and gender relations in Iraq, which some believe have taken a sharp turn for the worse since the beginning of the war in 2003.
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