Blog Profile / AlterNet Blogs: Speakeasy
| URL : | http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/ | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 13969 | |
| Posts / Week: | 50.4 | |
| Archived Since: | January 31, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Hey, Romney, Let Voters See What You Showed McCain
John McCain and Mitt Romney share a secret. It’s 23 years of Mitt’s tax returns. Mitt gave them to McCain in 2008 when McCain, then the GOP presidential nominee, was vetting VP candidates. This time around, Mitt has won the GOP nomination, but now he’s hiding those 23 years of returns from the American people. He handed [...] Comments Comments
We Can’t Turn the Tide on HIV Without the Participation of Sex Workers
Written by Ruth Morgan Thomas for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Cross-posted in partnership from the HIV Human Rights blog and part of RH Reality Check’s coverage of the International AIDS Conference, 2012. In May, as we were getting neck-deep [...] Comments Comments
Family Planning and Safe, Legal Abortion Go Hand in Hand
Written by Marge Berer for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. See all our coverage of the 2012 Global Family Planning Summit here. One in three women in the UK will have an abortion in her lifetime, most of whom will [...] Comments Comments
Consequences of Not Seeing The Chains That Oppress
Mikey Weinstein Oh, what a strange and complex world we live in. The good guys and bad guys sometimes appear to say the same thing – that they only want the best for us all. How do we distinguish between what’s genuinely “good” and what’s genuinely “bad”? A cold, hard look at the facts is always [...] Comments Comments
Once Again, Unsafe Prescription Drug is Restricted after Company Got Its Money
There is good news and bad news about the popular antipsychotic Seroquel. The good news is, after years of pleas from military families, the U.S. Central Command removed the controversial drug from its approved formulary list in March. Doctors now need a waiver to write a prescription for Seroquel in combat zones, reports Military Times, [...] Comments Comments
Confessions From a Survivor of ‘Communist-Rooted’ Camp Kinderland
Photo by Matt Weinstein Recently, as the prestigious Daily Caller reports, Americans for a Limited Government (ALG) (in a report, which mentions yours truly) exposed two dangerous facts about Obama’s Labor nominee, Erica Groshen: “In...Show More Summary
Open Letter to Representative Trent Franks: What Caring About Women and Babies Really Looks Like
Written by Bria Murray for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Dear Representative Trent Franks, Today, I watched you debate during the markup for H.R. 3803, or, as you may know it, the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, [...] Comments Comments
With needed defense cuts on the horizon, industry forces rev up the propaganda machine
Co-authored by John Amick You know it’s a big moment for defenders of the United States’ bloated military budget when some of the all-time superstars of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex descend on Capitol Hill to fight for their perceived right to profit. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to address the 2013 Defense [...] Comments Comments
Obama’s August Surprise in Coal Country? Mountaintop Removal Moratorium and Green Jobs Plan? (VIDEO)
As the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining–including the re-emerging scandal of reckless black lung policies on strip miners–continue to mount despite the shift of coal production to the heartland and western Power River Basin–President...Show More Summary
Why It’s Terribly Wrong For Gawker To Offer Money for Tips on Who Transmitted HIV to Magic Johnson
Written by Margo Kaplan for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Cross-posted with permission from Concurring Opinions. On Wednesday evening, popular blog Gawker.com aired a post offering a cash reward for the identity of the individual who transmitted HIV to Magic [...]
In Maryland, Free Speech Protects the Right of Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Lie to Women: An Analysis of the Baltimore CPC Case
Written by Imani Gandy for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. In the wake of the more than 1100 bills that have been rammed through state legislatures across the country, and as state legislators try to legislate women’s bodies while [...] Comments Comments
Casper the Friendly Ghost Can’t Control Wall Street
Bankers love to recount the fabled story of the invisible hand. In their version, the superhero Invisible Hand effectively controls the market, thoroughly trust-busting and fraud-forestalling. Everyone lives happily ever after. Truth be told, however, the tale of the invisible hand is a horror story. Show More Summary
On the (Unsettling) Power of Political Suicides to Galvanize a Society
Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. by David Harris-Gershon Something transformational is happening at this moment — something that has happened repeatedly across the globe and which as a phenomenon merits deep reflection. What is happening? A society is once again being galvanized by someone who, in a moment of desperation, publicly attempted to destroy oneself. In this case, it [...]Show More Summary
Anti-gay group exploiting Black pastors as pawns to get Romney elected
According to the following video, the “cat’s is out of the bag” in regards to a group of African-American pastors protesting President Obama’s and the NAACP’s supporting of marriage equality:As it turns out, this is not a genuine protest of anger stemming from the African-American community, but rather an astroturfed effort by the [...] Comments Comments
Why the USCCB’s “Religious Freedom” Argument Is a Lie
Written by Bridgette Dunlap for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. The recent Huffington Post article by Sister Mary Ann Walsh of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops tells us quite a bit about the veracity of the USCCB’s claims [...] Comments Comments
White Like Mitt Romney?
I am going to let you in on a big secret. Mitt Romney is white. In certain political circles we are not allowed to talk about such an obvious thing. Conservatives and the Right-wing media also tend to get upset when the American people talk about the fact that Mitt Romney is a white man. [...] Comments Comments
Israeli Lights Himself on Fire as Thousands March on One-year Anniversary of Social Justice Protests
Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. by David Harris-Gershon Around ten thousand protesters marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, marking the one-year anniversary of Israel’s social justice protests (while hundreds more marched in cities...Show More Summary
New Obama campaign ad has people talking
This ad by the Obama campaign against Romney is running in nine swing states(Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia) and is probably the most brutal thus far of this campaign season. It combines continuous attacks on Romney’s offshore accounts and his time at Bain Capital over a backdrop of [...] Comments Comments
The Right to Vote Affects the Power to Choose: How Voter Suppression in 2012 Will Erode Reproductive Rights
Written by Charlene Carruthers for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. There is power in a woman’s right to vote. Since 1984, women have been the majority of the total vote in every presidential election. This year, millions of women will stand [...] Comments Comments
Group seeking to divide blacks and gays before November election?
William OwensA group of black pastors who call themselves the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) recently traveled to the NAACP annual convention in Houston with a message demanding that President Obama meet with them to discuss his support of marriage equality. They are also supposedly angry that the NAACP has [...] Comments Comments