February 2010
Airlift Plans Put On Hold As Florida's Health Care... →
dckevlar:
selva:
The White House said Sunday it was working on a plan to resume a U.S. military airlift of Haitians seriously injured in the earthquake — some with devastating burns, head and spinal chord trauma, amputations and other wounds — to American hospitals. The humanitarian effort was suspended five days ago following complaints from the state of Florida that its hospitals were...
The Guardian UK: Vancouver's Olympics are heading... →
limeade:
towerofsleep:
‘This manic mix of hype and gloom is a byproduct of the games’ utter pointlessness. For those who have been planning their resistance since 2003, Vancouver is about to become the world’s premier political stage. It will be the best chance yet for the Olympics to be derailed and exposed as what they are: a corrupt relic of the 20th century that does little more than gut...
Detained Americans deny Child Trafficking →
squashed:
There is a long history of Americans and other Westerners going to war or disaster struck areas and grabbing babies. The impulse to care for the children is laudable … but often the “orphans” snatched aren’t really orphans. The same thing happened in Vietnam.
Of course, not all the people grabbing children have benevolent intentions. Donating to established aid groups with local ties...
January 2010
Pinkwashing
seanxvx:
adailyriot:
newleft:
Just how aware are you of breast cancer? At least in my experience, it’s virtually the only kind of cancer I see talked about in any mainstream news outlets. I’m not trying to attack anyone who has to deal with the horrific experience of cancer, but the pink ribbon campaigns are approaching it in precisely the wrong way.
Past a certain point, more awareness...
Military Lab Blew Up 18 Pigs →
pythoness:
ratsandcandy666:secrets0ciety:
Live pigs are being blown up as part of a series of government terrorism experiments at Porton Down, the government’s secret military research laboratory.
Eighteen pigs wrapped in protective Kevlar blankets were blasted. The animals were placed less than three yards from an explosive. Before being blown up, tubes were inserted into their blood vessels...
American news bankrupted and lobotomized, replaced... →
publiccommunication:
azspot:
Foreign bureaus have been among the hardest hit by cost-cutting measures in print and television media alike. According to the Pew Research Center’s annual State of the News Media report, coverage of international events by American media fell by about 40 percent in 2008. Thus has a bizarre situation arisen: at the most interconnected time in history, accurate and...
Adoptees of Color statement on Haiti →
redguard:
For more than fifty years “orphaned children” have been shipped from areas of war, natural disasters, and poverty to supposedly better lives in Europe and North America. Our adoptions from Vietnam, South Korea, Guatemala and many other countries are no different from what is happening to the children of Haiti today. Like us, these “disaster orphans” will grow into adulthood and begin...
“The problem with gender as we now have it is the violence - both real and...”
– Anne Fausto-Sterling (via shaanmichael) (via genderqueer) (via mostabortedsamo)