In the current Tablet the wonderful Leil Liebowitz discusses the new Putin bio by Masha Gessen, a Russian writer, still living there, who , it would seem, has tremendous courage. Now the book is out for all to see and the portrait of Vlad the Impaler gets even darker. Liebowitz: “Consider this: In the … Read more
The pressure has been building on Florida authorities who have as yet not arrested George Zimmerman, a man who walked his dog with a gun in a gated community in Florida. He is called a “neighborhood watch volunteer”. Without police training or screening (he has an arrest record) this is what a Florida community is … Read more
King Mohammed IV of Morocco has an interesting view on freedom of speech. He’s against it. On February 8th he had a cartoonist arrested for daring to draw a caricature of him. http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/02/08/morocco-busted-for-posting-caricatures-of-the-king-on-facebook-2/ A few days later a young protester was sentenced to prison for 3 years for criticizing the king in a Youtube video. … Read more
Nancy Brinker, CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has put a pink ribbon noose around funding Planned Parenthood’s work on breast cancer screening. This is in retaliation for work Planned Parenthood has done in birth control, including abortion. The back story as reported by Mother Jones, Susan G. Komen’s Founder Is … Read more
In today’s Times the difficult article about the Apple Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China. Like so many stories it implicates all of us. But this time we must connect human misery with the bright, uplifting futuristic world of the i-Pad. Hard to look, hard to look away. Ask Siri.
