Month: November 2005

The U.S. Army has proposed the development of a database to track sexual assault in the military that will violate victim privacy and will have a chilling effect on the reporting of sexual assault. TAKE ACTION:...

Cross-Posted from Political Cortex It has become obvious that the opening salvos of the fight we have been waiting for have been fired. Over the last three years a huge on-line community has sprung up in large part as a reaction...

I’m sure many of you probably saw last night’s edition of 60 Minutes in which reporter Scott Pelley interviewed, among others, Prof. Tim Kusky, Greg Meffert, a city planner, and Mike Centineo, the city’s top...

It isn’t the descriptions of the torture techniques that haunt me. It is this: When properly used, the techniques appear to be closely monitored and are signed off on in writing on a case-by-case, technique-by-technique...

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing. image and poem below the fold Iraqis grieve over the body of a relative...