Chan Kanha, a member of the Cambodian People’s Party, is deputy mayor of her hometown, Kampot, on the coast. One way that Cambodian women can make headway in political participation, she said, is to get a university degree. JOHANNA HIGGS
During the Women’s March on the Pentagon, Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 candidate for president, told Consortium News Video that war is robbing us blind. By Netra Halperin Special to Consortium News 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke…Read more →
Fed up with ongoing wars depleting innocent lives and the U.S. Treasury, more than a thousand women marched on the Pentagon on Sunday to declare their opposition to the continuing slaughter. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News About 1,500…Read more →
The Trump administration recently circulated a memo to explain its strict anti-abortion policies globally, just as a new UN report on fertility found that severely limiting females’ access to health services increases abortion rates. Here, a Usaid-financed family planning program in Malawi, in 2015, included injectable contraceptives.
The aggression of Western governments has inflicted multiple holocausts on the Congolese people, Congolese historian Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko tells Ann Garrison. By Ann Garrison Black Agenda Report This week I spoke to Swiss Congolese historian and activist Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko about…Read more →
The use of identity politics by establishment Democrats to obscure a violent and hegemonic foreign policy has led many clear-minded people to conflate the very real problem of sexual assault, with a liberal Democratic agenda, says Joe Lauria. By Joe…Read more →
Costliest fighter, conflict of interest and taking documents home + this day in history w/another shooter event and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for October 1, 2018.
Author Roosh V, best known as a pickup artist, joins Henrik to talk about the banning of 9 of his books from Amazon.com. We discuss some of the controversies he's been involved in over the years and his views on modernity, tradition, women, relationships and family today. Roosh speculates why he has been targeted and banned by the giant internet retailer. We also talk about his latest book "Game."
A video version of the show is available here.
Victoria Villanueva helped found an organization called Manuela Ramos, in Peru in 1978, to lobby to reduce violence against women in the country. At age 83, Villanueva, who was in New York recently, is not slowing down in her work as street protests in Peru denouncing violence against women rise.
A recent study by researchers at Binghamton University in New York suggests that women need more nutrients in their diet than men in order to maintain positive emotional well-being. [1]
I don’t know about you, but the last thing I want to reach for when I’m feeling depressed is a carrot stick or piece of broccoli. When you’re feeling down, you want a cupcake or fried chicken. But “comfort food” isn’t nearly as comforting as the term would have you believe.
