The Los Angeles Times reports that two veteran police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department are under investigation for using the threat of jail to force several women they had previously arrested to have sex with them. Though the crimes committed are horrific, this wouldn’t be the first time rapists disguised as police officers […]
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The repeated rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl in the small football-loving town of Steubenville, Ohio, in August is making national headlines thanks to the diligence of Alexandria Goddard, a crime blogger, and the internet vigilanteism of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Yet, in spite of all the new attention focused on this horrific act, the media is […]
In my last post, I forgot to include, as an example of rape culture, a gang rape that took place in Steubenville, an Ohio football town where at an August end-of-summer party, members of the Steubenville football team raped a passed out 16-year-old girl, who was from a nearby West Virginia town, and then dragged her […]
The public gang rape of a college student in India has rightly sparked global outrage about violence against women, forcing rape to become a topic of discussion for even US media outlets. For the first time that I can recall, mainstream publications are using the phrase “rape culture” to describe the environment that fosters and […]
The Washington Post published an excellent article yesterday highlighting the creeping expansion of the CIA’s paramilitary force, better known as Global Response Staff (GRS). The Post describes the GRS as “an innocuously named organization that has recruited hundreds of former U.S. Special Forces operatives to serve as armed guards for the agency’s spies.” It’s “designed […]
Back in the day, Christmas brought with it an unofficial truce during times of war, allowing troops to celebrate the holiday, maybe even with their families back home. Thanks to technological advancements in warfare, this is no longer necessary. Armed drones enable soldiers to extrajudicially assassinate their targets from the safety of military bases thousands […]
For most of us in the US, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is viewed as an exclusively domestic obstacle to gun regulation. But, as it turns out, the NRA’s obstructionism extends far beyond our borders, impacting the safety of the entire world. In the US, it’s more difficult to purchase a car than a gun […]
Gun violence is rarely discussed except for when a horrific mass shooting takes place. Still, even with the nation’s eyes focused on this particular issue, there is one kind of gun violence that is continually ignored: Police killings of unarmed citizens. In my experience, liberal gun control advocates are the most silent on this issue. […]
“[W]e need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security,” declared NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre at this morning’s press conference, breaking his organizations week-long silence following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that left 20 children and 6 adults dead. After blaming gun control, […]
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