How Florida farmworkers won a fairer deal from America’s biggest food companies – CSMonitor.com.

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This Graduate Stripped Down For All The Right Reasons

nice

NYPD Cops Stop Patrolling Streets, Crime Rates Begin Falling; Traffic Violations Down 94%

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How inequality made these Western countries poorer

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The rise and ugly fall of a moderate Syrian rebel offers lessons for the West

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Here Comes The Saudi Dynasty Succession Crisis …

“He is not a real prince; his mother was a slave and there are other brothers who are more competent,” [emphasis: mine]

What a fucking surreal sentence to read about a modern-day government.

U.S. ski team prospects die in avalanche in Austria

R.I.P.

If Palestinians join ICC, Israel’s actions may trigger court’s jurisdiction

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court would have a hard time arguing that the occupation and the plight of Gaza Palestinians are outside their jurisdiction.

 

Exactly

Israel freezes Palestine tax funds over ICC bid

Israel has halted the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinians following their bid to join the International Criminal Court, Israeli officials say.

Racist, spineless, assholes act without honor.

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Palestine’s ICC bid could mark turning point: 

If court accepts Palestine’s application, prosecutor could open investigation into war crimes and genocide by any party.

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HarperCollins sorry for omitting Israel from atlas

The omission was made because of “local preferences,” Collins Bartholomew, a mapping subsidiary of HarperCollins, told Tablet, a Catholic news website that first to reported the story. The company said their customers in the Gulf region, where the book was primarily sold, would find Israel’s inclusion “unacceptable,” Tablet reported.

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Obama’s drug-sentencing quagmire

Uselss, ineffectual hack.

War or No War, Winning in Afghanistan ‘a Matter of Political Will’

Bullshit. It’s a matter of having an actual executable plan for success instead of a bunch of doublespeak fed running around in circle getting people killed without accomplishing anything.

No plan? No win.

Gay banner removed from Pride DVD cover in US

Jeezus, it’s bad enough without the lies and denial

Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’

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Roma baby buried in France after racism row

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Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, cuts monitor tag, won’t comply with house arrest

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Judge to weigh releasing grand jury record in NYC chokehold death

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Tomb of previously unknown pharaonic queen found in Egypt

cool.

Rape Kits: There is No Other Crime Where Someone Is Charged Money For The Collection of Evidence 

Sigh….

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy – 
New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent

Sigh….

FOX NEWS AIRS STUART SCOTT R.I.P. TRIBUTE WITH PICTURE OF STEPHEN A. SMITH

fucking morons

Modesty, Body Policing and Rape Culture: Connecting the Dots

The modesty doctrine revolves around the assumption that a man has a right to sex with every woman he finds attractive. In Christian fundamentalism, he only has a right to sex with his wife. That’s why certain women get singled out as threats, despite trying their hardest to be “modest.” It doesn’t matter what they wear; if men find them attractive and can’t marry them, they must be punished.

…What she wants or doesn’t want is either erased or subordinated to what he wants or can’t have. The relationship is between the man, her body, and the law (monogamy). Similarly, entire facets of male sexuality are written out. Men are not allowed to see themselves as objects of desire… , The corollary to accepting that sex isn’t about having a right of use for another person’s body means enjoying the experience of having a woman express genuine interest in you. In the fundamentalist model of sex, men are aggressors and women are reluctant recipients. Relinquishing the right to sex with a woman and replacing it with mutual consent means finally experiencing sexual interest that isn’t forced. It threatens patriarchal masculinity, however, because having that experience (being wanted) means letting go of superiority and admitting to having the same experience women do.