Undressing Fashion: What It Says About Gender, Sex, and Power Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: We get dressed every day; what do our style choices say about us? Authors of the book Fashion Talks: Undressing the Power of Style Marjorie Jolles and Shira Tarrant discuss how we present ourselves. Read the Interview Glenn Greenwald and the $250 Million "Angel Investor" Jonathan Franklin, Truthout: Journalist Glenn Greenwald is leaving British newspaper The Guardian to join a media organization started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Read the Article Do We Need Another Rolls-Royce Showroom? Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A tiny tax on global personal wealth over $1 million could ensure that no child anywhere on the planet has to live in extreme poverty. Read the Article The NSA Isn't Foiling Terrorist Plots Teun van Dongen, Foreign Policy in Focus: We don't know how all terrorist plots have been detected. But going by what we do know, the conclusion is simple: terrorist plots have been foiled in all sorts of ways, few of which had anything to do with mass digital surveillance. Read the Article WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of American Empire Sam Knight, AlterNet: A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the US to stop European "bullying," just the first of a deluge of revelations detailing how America throws around its weight. Read the Article The Government Is Open Again ... Now What? Scott Klinger, Center for Effective Government: Rather than putting the deficit first, we should instead put people first and shift the conversation to creating good jobs and understanding government's role in that. Klinger puts forward ideas for reaching these goals. Read the Article The End of Impunity? Indigenous Guatemalans Bring Canadian Mining Company to Court Arij Riahi, The Dominion: For the first time, a Canadian mining company will appear in a Canadian court for actions committed overseas, including murder, rapes and attacks carried out against indigenous Guatemalans. Read the Article Seven Horrifying Things About the Chicken You Eat Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet: Many people eat only chicken to avoid the health and environmental questions surrounding red meat. Yet the track record of US chicken may be worse. Read the Article Jeju Island - Tragic Destruction of Pristine Marine Area for Another Naval Base for the US Missile Defense System Ann Wright, War Is A Crime: Jeju Island, South Korea is a World Heritage site and once thrived with sea life. But the government of South Korea is pushing for the construction of a controversial naval base for Aegis missile destroyers and the US missile defense system. Read the Article This week in SpeakOut: Gabriel Garcia discusses the systemic oppression of minorities in America noting how "slavery and segregation" has given way to a system of "poverty, discrimination and classism"; David R. Andersen-Rodgers reflects on the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize decision and how it can remind us of the importance of international diplomacy; Sean McElwee writes that the "debt ceiling is a quintessential example of the failure of leftism under both the Obama and Clinton administrations" in his critique of the modern left; Dr. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez reveals Operation Streamline, America's dirtiest little secret; and more. Read the Articles |
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