Month: June 2009

Animal rights, ecofeminism, and rooster rehab

Mickey Z. interviews pattrice jonespattrice jones is an ecofeminist educator, activist, and writer. She is the author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies and co-founder of...

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Reality Check, Buying Votes in Lebanon

. “Coming, as these elections do, in the immediate aftermath of Obama’s conciliatory Cairo speech, they seem to signify a cooling off of the recent tensions between the United States and the Muslim world. I...

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Good Signs from the Middle East

Lebanon held their elections today and Hezbollah did worse than expected, with their coalition failing to gain power. Meanwhile, Iran’s elections are scheduled for Friday and Ahmadinejad is looking very vulnerable. The...

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Too Much Stoopid

The Stoopid should not attempt to reason. What I meant by ’embrace our president’ was ‘accept the basic reality that Obama is our president.’ I did not mean ‘grab his ass and shove your tongue down...

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