Posts Tagged ‘justice’
Bad things happen in war. Worse things happen when occupying forces run amok in a country which – thanks to relentless political and cultural hostility from the West – is seen as a disposable plot of sand, occupied by people who are less-than-human. How else can we understand the brutal murder of an innocent 26-year-old [...]
To paraphrase George Dubya: misogynists never stop thinking of ways to harm women, and neither does America. The latest joyous news from the motherland (a term I use advisedly) is that troubled women are being prosecuted for murder after suffering miscarriages or still-births. This is more than insane. It’s baffling. Despite the pro-life palaver America [...]
If you have to earn a salary in the current economy (as opposed to, say, live off your dividends) you’re screwed. Not least because asshole corporate types think you’re a brainless serf. Daniel Indiviglio’s column ‘Why Are Corporate Profits High While Jobs and Wages Stagnate?’ in The Atlantic doesn’t offer any fresh information about the [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Today’s bulletin from the department of the obvious: a poll shows that “only 55% [of young people from households where neither parent works] are prepared to pay fees of £5,000, and just 35% would pay £7,000.” The proposed tuition hike is nothing in the social realm of Cameron, et al — they [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility “Didn’t Britain abolish slavery in the 1700s?” Britain abolished slavery in 1833 and is set to reinstate it in 2010. Only this time they’re calling it ‘benefit reform’. Practically speaking, however, there is no difference between the statements: “jobless required to do unpaid community work” and “blacks required to do unpaid work.” [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility This shit ain’t right. Seriously. I’m wearing myself thin saying it but what’s going on with Britney and Jamie Spear’s conservatorship is a violation of human rights. Disgraceful. Free Britney! Share It del.icio.us Digg Facebook Google Live Spaces MySpace Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Twitter Yahoo! My Web
Little children aren’t supposed to starve to death in England. But Khyra Ishaq did. The 7-year-old’s wasted body was found in her Birmingham home, along with her five siblings – all requiring hospitalisation for malnutrition. The children had been taken out of the nearby primary school just over two months earlier and apparently hardly seen [...]
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1 March, 2008 in barack obama, ethnic cleansing, george w bush, human rights, incarceration, prison, raul castro
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America is always saying it’s the best. (Yee-haw!) I’ve been a sceptic but finally, irrevocable proof that America really is the best country on the whole goddamn planet – at locking up its citizens. Actually, that’s old news to anyone who pays attention to such things. The United States has, for years, not only imprisoned [...]