Posts tagged “huffington post”
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Joel Berg featured in documentary premiering at Sundance
January 18, 2012
“49 million people in the U.S.—one in four children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans.”
Tags: All You Can Eat, documentaries, finding north, huffington post, Hunger, Joel Berg
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Elizabeth Abbott talks about extramarital affairs in the Huffington Post
October 20, 2011
“[T]he internal logic of the double standard that designed Mistressdom is rooted in the ideal of empowering men by disempowering women, making it impossible to create Misterdom as a parallel”
Tags: a history of marriage, editorials, elizabeth abbott, huffington post
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A History of Marriage author Elizabeth Abbott on the Gay Marriage Act
July 12, 2011
“For the first time in history, young people are growing up in the presence of legally sanctioned gay marriage (and divorce), an experience that will influence how they shape their lives in a world that is marching away from homophobia and allowing gays and lesbians to unite in marriage, to raise their children, and to expect to receive the same rights and to be subject to the same obligations as heterosexual spouses. As more gay men and women decide to marry, they will shore up the very institution whose decline the wider society mourns.” — Elizabeth Abbott
Tags: a history of marriage, elizabeth abbott, gay marriage act, huffington post, new york
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John R. Talbott: “Warren Buffet is Not God”
April 1, 2011
Warren Buffet is involved in a situation in which he is deciding whether one of his employees, David Sokol, did something wrong and possibly illegal when he bought close to $10 million in Lubrizol stock prior to Buffet’s firm, Berkshire Hathaway, making an offer to buy the company. Buffet should be careful in his defense of Sokol that it wasn’t just Sokol who did something wrong here and quite possibly illegal . . . Conflicts are certain to arise when the party making the decisions to act is the party making the judgment as to whether and how to mete out punishment. Buffet cannot play both roles, even though at times he does seem to be omniscient and all powerful.
Tags: 86 biggest lies on wall street, economics, huffington post, john talbott, News
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Peter Hart on “Huffington, Olbermann and Corporate Media” at CommonDreams.Org
February 10, 2011
“Just weeks ago, cable giant Comcast swallowed NBC . . . MSNBC is now in the hands of Comcast–a corporation that, like most other giant corporations, is likely to be skittish about left-of-center programming. The sudden departure of Keith Olbermann left many wondering if his soon-to-be new bosses had anything to do with it . . . In the meantime, progressives who want progressive media free of corporate control have options: Democracy Now!, Common Dreams, AlterNet, Truthdig, GritTV and The Real News Network, to name just a few. Big corporations aren’t lining up to swallow them up–which means they’re doing something right.” - Peter Hart
Tags: huffington post, oh really factor, peter hart, politics
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Elizabeth Abbott: Marriage is often a casualty of war
November 12, 2010
Rampant alcoholism and drug addiction, the “soldier’s disease,” wrecked havoc on marriages. So did venereal disease, contracted from prostitutes known as “horizontal refreshments.” Symptoms included incontinence and impotence, and “No one knows how many Union and Confederate wives and widows went to their graves, rotted and ravaged by the pox that their men brought home,” writes Civil War medical historian Thomas Lowry.
Some demobilized husbands had grown closer to their wives through letters describing their experiences, including their fears, hopes, and emotional responses. Others, alienated by years of separation and hardship, had difficulty reconnecting with spouses. (”While you all was Haveing Such good times… on the 4th. we was Shooting Rebels,” one young soldier observed.) Some women had had extramarital sex. Others, expecting their husbands to die in combat, entered new relationships. Some sold themselves to survive. When many veterans and their waiting wives reunited, they made each other miserable until they finally sought relief in separation or divorce.
. . . What’s wrong? Are broken marriages an inherent risk of military service? The sad answer is yes. —Elizabeth Abbott
Tags: articles, elizabeth abbott, history, history of marriage, huffington post
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Huffington Post on Leonard Miller & race relations in NASCAR
May 18, 2010
Could the majority-white live audience for NASCAR really be the reason for corporate reticence in doling out the dough? If so, it is insulting on many levels. … If NASCAR sponsors really aren’t giving Miller’s group a fair shot at their dollars because of race, then they underestimate the talent he has assembled, as well as the evolving NASCAR audience which also includes statistically significant numbers of Asian, Latino and African-American fans, according to Sports Business Daily.
To be sure, racism still exists everywhere, and there are, no doubt, some in the audience who wouldn’t cheer for Miller’s team because of race. Still, to assume that NO ONE, or even just a small minority would accept a black team, is to perpetuate a stereotype created in movies and comedic routines of NASCAR fans as beer-swilling, stars and bars flying, racist yokels. Again, to look at the numbers, that just ain’t so. — Susan Deily-Swearingen on Racing While Black
Tags: andrew simon, articles, huffington post, leonard t miller, race, racing while black, sports, susan deily-swearingen
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Leora Tanenbaum on Phoebe Prince and Hope Witsell
April 13, 2010
I am curious to know: why has [Phoebe] Prince’s death elicited a far stronger reaction than [Hope] Witsell’s? Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has even stepped in, berating school officials for not protecting Prince. Meanwhile, to date no one has so strongly pointed a finger at school administrators at Witsell’s school, nor have there been criminal charges brought in her case. This doesn’t make sense. Both girls were victimized similarly. Both deaths are tragic. Both girls deserve the same outcry of anger and horror. Why does Prince’s suicide resonate so much more than Witsell’s?
Because Prince, 15, more neatly fits the stereotype of a sympathetic “good” victim while Witsell does not. — Leora Tanenbaum
Tags: articles, education, hope witsell, huffington post, leora tanenbaum, phoebe prince, slut, women's issues
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Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
November 11, 2009
From Loretta Napoleoni (author of Rogue Economics and the upcoming Terrorism and the Economy) at the Huffington Post:
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the US is losing the war in Afghanistan, a country that indirectly contributed to the break-up of the USSR. Where coalition forces today battle the Taliban and al Qaeda, in the 1980s, the Soviets fought the Mujahedeen — a Muslim army of volunteers that Moscow called terrorists. Fighting the anti-Soviet Jihad, a brutal war funded by the CIA and the Saudis, became too costly for bankrupt Moscow. In a painful and humiliating withdrawal, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989, just a few months before the implosion of the Soviet System. Without that defeat we might not be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War or a unified Europe today. Remarkably, the central Asian country of Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future.
Tags: afghanistan, articles, current events, economics, huffington post, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy
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Huffington Post: Swanson bumps Beck from #1 spot on Amazon Politics
September 2, 2009
As those who follow @7StoriesPress and @davidcnswanson on Twitter already know: thanks to the efforts of progressive Democrats everywhere — as well as people just fed up with Glenn Beck — David Swanson’s Daybreak shot up the Amazon charts yesterday, peaking at #1 in Politics and #6 on Amazon overall. Read the full story from Rob Kall at the Huffington Post — and, as a special bonus, the article “Healthcare Needs Democracycare” from the ever-prolific David Swanson. Congratulations to David and to Daybreak!
Tags: articles, current events, david swanson, daybreak, huffington post, politics/government
“huffington post” Posts
- Jan 18, Joel Berg featured in documentary premiering at Sundance
- Oct 20, Elizabeth Abbott talks about extramarital affairs in the Huffington Post
- Jul 12, A History of Marriage author Elizabeth Abbott on the Gay Marriage Act
- Apr 1, John R. Talbott: “Warren Buffet is Not God”
- Feb 10, Peter Hart on “Huffington, Olbermann and Corporate Media” at CommonDreams.Org
- Nov 12, Elizabeth Abbott: Marriage is often a casualty of war
- May 18, Huffington Post on Leonard Miller & race relations in NASCAR
- Apr 13, Leora Tanenbaum on Phoebe Prince and Hope Witsell
- Nov 11, Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
- Sep 2, Huffington Post: Swanson bumps Beck from #1 spot on Amazon Politics
