Tuesday night HBO premiered the award-winning documentary “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” a harrowing look into the lives of rape victims who are the uncounted casualties of the Congolese civil war. Directed by Lisa F. Jackson, a celebrated documentarian who was herself the victim of a gang rape, the movie spans the […]
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Published April 9th, 2008 in Feminism, Film, Violence and War. 10 CommentsSubversive grannies take knitting to the streets:
Marie Runyon, who turns 93 on Thursday, was one of the arrested and acquitted grannies, and spoke proudly of her two antiwar grandchildren. Carrying two canes and wearing a plastic foldable rain hat, she suggested, loudly and saltily, that the nearby counterprotesters should be quiet.
“Give Iraq our Constitution, […]
God Doesn’t Hate Fags
Published November 4th, 2007 in Assholes, Books, GLBTQ, Good Reads, Hate, Law, Religion and War. 0 CommentsLo, my heart is warmed this Sunday with excellent news from earlier this week: God doesn’t hate fags and the church of Fred Phelps lost a righteous $10.9 million lawsuit:
A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war […]
Is it a common belief that the reason we didn’t find WMDs in Iraq is that we didn’t “dig far enough down” in the desert? Or are drunk college kids that stupid (this is not a question).
No comment. My stomach is turning.
Michelle Malkin won’t do it, but Bill will.
Bill is a moderate (I’d call him small-l libertarian, but I think he’s just bitter) blogger who has taken it upon himself to visit Baghdad, Fallujah, and elsewhere, to see for himself what the War on Terror looks like. Bill and I have had contact on a […]
Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al-Hurrah, reported about an hour before daylight Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government…
…Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried […]
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Watch the video. Not recommended for New Yorkers, may induce anti-jingoistic vomiting.
Looks like Rumsfeld is “stepping down.”
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