U.S. Tops Terrorist Watch List

Fayyad, who blogs for KABOBfest, writes about U. S. sponsered terrorism:

From Sponsoring Al Qaeda to the Contras in Nicaragua, the United States has a long and eventful history of sponsoring terrorist organizations to destabilize countries and regimes that fall out of favor of favor with the US and it’s unmatched “moral high ground.” The below article in the Sunday Telegraph from a few weeks ago is an expose of the US’s latest adventure in non-uniform terrorism.

Website found in blog No Snow Here.

Fighting Against (Gender) Segregation

Amal A., of the blog Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice, points us to an article from Women’s e News:

“Five women in Israel are going to court to protest the way sex-segregated public buses are run in Israel. The arrangement serves the beliefs of ultra-Orthodox passengers but the women say it discriminates against other riders.”

The Dragoon Lady Stereotype

Jenn writes:

The conflation of Asian women with whores only plays off of the hypersexualized stereotypes of Asian women as sex kittens — a stereotype popularized by the Vietnamese prostitutes of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. This hypersexualization diminishes Asian American women into fulfilling a single role: that of being the sexual plaything of men, White or otherwise. We are rendered little more than the sum of our sexuality, incapable of being doctors, lawyers, scientists, mothers, sisters, daughters or real people in our own right.