A case for demilitarizing the US military
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in 2004 poses for pictures with soldiers, marines and airman outside the Abu Ghraib Detention Center, in Iraq. Wikicommons/ US Air force. Some rights…
Richard Simmons And The Agony Of Empathy
“I call you Saint Richard. Because that’s who you are.” It’s four in the morning—modern life’s most vulnerable hour—when a semi-depressed 14-year-old with light insomnia catches the beginning of an infomercial…
Time to fight for disarmament
The Disarmament Sculpture outside the UN building, New York. Luke Redmond/Flickr. Some rights reserved.To the vast majority of people 'disarmament' may sound like an ancient practice that Cold War rivals…
The Resistance Just Got Smarter
It may be hard to believe, but we’re only 75 days into Donald Trump’s presidency. That means there are 1,385 days left in his first term—and any scenario that suggests otherwise…
Enforceability of ESC Rights: some background and misleading assumptions
Due Process of Law Foundation/Jaume Escarta. All rights reserved. After World War II, a paradigm of States’ promotion of social welfare was predominant in several western governments, including those…
Stop What You’re Doing And Watch This Epic Girls Skateboarding Video
When director Sasha Rainbow heard “Alpha Female,” the latest single from Wild Beasts’ album Boy King, she immediately thought of India where an explosive skateboarding scene is empowering a generation…
An intimate intifada
Kitchen knives. Meat cleavers. Scissors. Stones. The current weapons of choice used by Palestinians in this latest wave of violence in Israel and the West Bank. At the time of…
Alt-Right And “Antifa” Collide At Protest In Berkeley
One of the most widespread concerns about Trump’s presidency was that his disrespectful attitudes towards women and minorities would foment a permissive culture of misogyny and racism among his supporters. On Saturday, that…
Villagers stand up for peace in Colombia’s civil war
PCSJA members honour those who lost their lives for standing up for peace in Colombia’s civil war. (www.cdpsanjose.org)Last summer – one year after finishing The Power of Staying Put –…
The Washington Post Just Became The First Major Newspaper With Women Covering Every Sports Beat
While sports have the power to create barrier-breaking diversity, sports journalism has remained immune. According to a study by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, 88.3 percent of sports…
‘Talking to terrorists’: myth no. 6
In the Washington Post last year Michael Semple (former Deputy to the European Union Special Representative for Afghanistan) presented five myths on 'talking to terrorists'. He might have added a…
Neighborhood Creates Their Own Magical 'Giving Tree' After Someone Cut It Down To A Stump
The heartfelt message behind Shel Silverstein’s 1964 children’s book, The Giving Tree has made its way off the pages and into real life thanks to one Oakland, California, resident. A tree…