July 2011
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“I don’t think security can solve problems. We need to teach greater respect.”
– Fabian Stang, Oslo’s mayor
An un-American response to the Oslo attack
(via oversets)
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Amnesty Int. Reveals War Crimes Impact on Somali... →
pantslessprogressive:
Amnesty International says the systematic recruitment of child soldiers, many of them under the age of 15, is escalating in Somalia.
In a report released Wednesday, the rights group says Somali children risk death all the time.
It says children recruited as soldiers are injured and killed, and those separated from parents are forced to make it on their own, under the...
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“If you doubt that politics in Congress has become more partisan, consider this:...”
– Worst. Congress. Ever. - By Norman Ornstein | Foreign Policy
For 40 years, the French government has been... →
mohandasgandhi:
This isn’t so secret to those who have been paying a bit of attention. Don’t ever let anyone tell you imperialism is dead.
“In my own view, the important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that...”
– Neil Armstrong (1999)
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“Some of these children had to walk for over 600 kilometers [360 miles] to get...”
– Dr. Hussein Sheikh Qassim, Medical Coordinator in the MSF hospital in Marere, in southern Somalia, where violence and drought are driving people from their homes in search of medical care and shelter. Read the rest of his account here.
More on MSF’s work in Somalia.
(via doctorswithoutborders)
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Music: Manu Chao →
nomadandvagabond:
If you know me outside of Adventures of a Nomad & Vagabond, then you know I’m a tremendous music nerd. Or I like to think so — admittedly, much of what I listen to is in English. But that’s something I’m trying to change.
And so we come to Manu Chao.
He’s French, but of Spanish origin, and he sings in a ridiculous number of languages. They’ve been playing him a lot at the...
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a...”
– Albert Einstein (via crookedindifference)
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“America is becoming more polarized in part because of Google’s algorithms which...”
– Charlie Warner, MediaBizBloggers, Newspapers Should Stay in the Opinion Business - Radio, TV Stations, and Networks, Too. (via futurejournalismproject)
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15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
liberationfrequency:
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them...
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“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and...”
– Dalai Lama
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How food and water are driving a 21st-century... →
sufigeek:
A woman tends vegetables at a giant Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia’s largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches...
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Reuters: Moroccan rights group seeks probe into... →
wardasahra:
Morocco’s main independent human rights group demanded a judicial investigation into what it said were serious violations that affected the outcome of a July 1 referendum on constitutional reforms.
King Mohammed is expected to hand over some of his powers to elected officials under the new charter while retaining a key say over strategic decisions.
The government said nearly 100...
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Today is World Population Day and to commemorate it, ViewChange.org is showcasing 20 films about population issues.
Shown here is “Love and Life: Live on Air”, the story of a 20-year-old Ugandan radio journalist who hosts a show that attempts to dispel myths and misunderstandings about (safe) sex.
From the transcript:
RADIO HOST Hey yo, what’s up guys? This is the...
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A political history of Africa since 1900 -... →
theafricatheynevershowyou:
South Sudan celebrated its independence day. How did other African nation states emerge?
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After mass arrests, authorities shrug off rare... →
caraobrien:
Malaysian police cracked down on an opposition rally Saturday, using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the more than 20,000 people who had gathered in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, to demand election reforms.
One person died and more than 1,600 were arrested in the country’s largest demonstration in four years, though authorities say the detained were later released.
The huge...
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“The only real nation is humanity.”
– Paul Farmer (via ndeming)
Tomorrow: Physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer on Haiti’s health crisis
(via nprfreshair)
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The Unemployed Somehow Became Invisible - [NYTimes... →
Fourteen million, in round numbers — that is how many Americans are now officially out of work.
Word came Friday from the Labor Department that, despite all the optimistic talk of an economic recovery, unemployment is going up, not down. The jobless rate rose to 9.2 percent in June.
What gives? And where, if anywhere, is the outrage?
But unless you’re one of those unhappy 14 million,...
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US: Court Overrules Anti-Prostitution Gag Rule for... →
The US Court of Appeals’ ruling on July 6, 2011, that the government may not force US organizations that get funding for international anti-AIDS work to pledge their opposition to prostitution is an important step in the global fight against AIDS, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Alliance for Open Society International v. United States...
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UN Focuses on Rape as Weapon of War After Libyan... →
caraobrien:
It took a video going “viral” of a Libyan woman being dragged from a Tripoli hotel — shouting that she’d been raped for two days by 15 men — to put a face and name to a weapon of war that dates back at least to the founding of ancient Rome.
Defying social norms that can turn rape victims into outcasts, Iman al-Obeidi went public with her story. Her allegations of torture at the...
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Female soldiers more likely to be raped by their... →
motherjones:
This and other intriguing, outrage-makey facts about women in the military, in an infographic from Good.
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