American Conservative, May 25, 2021 Afghanistan: George W. Bush’s First Disastrous War It was a misguided effort from the start, built on lies and false idealism, and it has left a bloody legacy. |by James Bovard Former President George W. Bush is bewailing President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Bush […]
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Nearly four years have passed, but Himachal Pradesh has still not recovered from the shock and agony felt at the time of a most terrible rape and murder of a 16 year girl, called Gudiya by the media, while she was returning from a school and had to also pass a small stretch of forest on her way to[Read More...]
Like the aforementioned Chuck Berry, many other black celebrities have ended up on the wrong side of the law over the years, the most outrageous being OJ Simpson who was cleared of an even more outrageous double murder. And Angela Davis, whose case was discussed here recently, became a celebrity by dint of her criminal […]
The hysteria over so-called racism manufactured in the wake of the very public death of George Floyd has infected every facet of American life, including the criminal justice system. It is accepted without credit or qualification that American justice is racist, meaning it deals more harshly with blacks than with whites, but is this really […]
Pakistan rights campaigners have accused the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan of “baffling ignorance” after the former cricketer linked how women dress to cause a rise in rape cases. In a weekend interview on live television, Oxford-educated Imran Khan said an increase in rapes indicated the “consequences in any society where vulgarity is on the rise.” “The incidents of rape[Read More...]
This is a guest post by FULANA DETAIL The post below is hard to read. It is written with a great deal of rage and pain and grief. It is a post about sexual violence. It is not explicit in any way. It does not describe sexual violence. It describes the feeling of being before … Continue reading An Exorcism For Every Woman and A Curse on Every Man: Fulana Detail →
“When a stranger does it, he doesn’t know me, I don’t know him. He’s not doing it to me as a person, personally. With your husband, it becomes personal. You say, this man knows me. He knows my feelings. He knows me intimately and then to do this to me – it’s such a personal abuse.”1 Gravity of Domestic Violence[Read More...]
On Tuesday afternoon, Liam Allan was the speaker at an on-line meeting: When Disclosure Goes Wrong – and the Campaign to put it Right. Hosted by Eventbrite, it was an interesting talk, but sadly Liam still doesn’t understand the real problem in his case. If you are a UK reader and keep abreast of especially […]
On October 19, John Leslie was found not guilty at Southwark Crown Court. He had been accused of groping a woman’s breast at a Christmas party way back in 2008. And the woman who accused him? She complained to the police in 2017! If that sounds bizarre, the genesis of this insanity can be dated […]
We speak of women empowerment and emancipation, yet it is a dictum of truism that being a man is an advantageous position in the society and so to say paradoxically a woman is more vulnerable. The relative existence of the fair gender is itself a manifestation of the plethora of issues that they face and physical aggression/violence is the gravest[Read More...]
