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The F Word: The Business of the Right's Anti-Choice Crusade
March 30, 2011
The latest front in the all-out war on abortion is once again South Dakota, which succeeded last week in passing a law that forces women seeking abortions to first get advice at “pregnancy help centers,” otherwise known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” which are not heath care centers, but rather places where anti-abortion counselors pressure pregnant women to carry to full term.
Phyllis Bennis, Mark Bittman, and South Dakota's Anti-Choice Legislation
March 29, 2011
“I wonder if those same people who asked for the intervention, when they ask for the intervention to end, will we listen to them?" asks GRITtv foreign affairs correspondent and author Phyllis Bennis. Who will the leadership that so swiftly made the decision to commit troops to Libya answer to? Phyllis joins us via Skype to discuss the continued presence of U.S. troops in the Middle East.
Lynn Paltrow: Attacking Abortion Rights is Redefining Personhood
February 18, 2011
"This is a national plan of action designed to take women back to a time when we had second class status as persons," Lynn Paltrow says of the ongoing attempts by conservatives around the country to shut down abortion rights by any way they can think of: fetal personhood, banning taxpayer funding, defunding Planned Parenthood, and making it "justifiable homicide" to kill an abortion provider.
Hamid Dabashi, Lee Fang & Michael Whitney, and John Lewis
February 15, 2011
"People are perfectly capable of democracy and guess what, without US invasion," notes Hamid Dabashi of the lessons from Egypt's revolution. Iran is just one of the countries that, inspired by Tunisia and Egypt, has seen protests in recent days. In Iran, it's a revival and of the civil rights movement that we saw start in 2009 after the elections, Dabashi notes, but moving to a new phase that is demanding more than just "Where is my vote?"
The F Word: The Culture War On Jobs
February 15, 2011
It might be the greatest bait and switch ever pulled on the American voter. For two successive election cycles we've been promised jobs, a recovering economy, attention to the Constitution. After the last one, triumphant Republican after triumphant Republican declared November's to be an election decided on jobs.
The F Word: Drone Stimulus?
June 23, 2010
Hmm. What's worse: Backstabbing one president or bombing lots of civilians? The answer's pretty obvious, to judge by the stink over General Stanley McCrystal's comments in DC and in the money media. McChrystal the man's in trouble. The policies he embraced may not be. Ironically, one policy he raised consistent concerns about -- the use of remote-device killing machines - drones on, to barely a whimper of concern stateside.
My, what long arms you have, my, um, Justice
July 2, 2008
Their intent was to come up with this report that would somehow justify the ban on all abortions," Looby sighed. "I mean, it was a well-orchestrated, well-planned process.- SD PP's Kate Looby referring to the SD legislature's Task Force on AbortionIn 1991, Feminists for Life's amicus brief in Bray v Alexandria Women's Health Clinic held a seance of 19th centuryfeminist icons to produce them as witnesses against 20th, now 21st, century

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