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Abusive Afghan Husbands Want This Woman Dead
Abusive Afghan Husbands Want This Woman Dead For Afghan women, self-immolation has become a way to externalize private injustice, to push hidden pain into the public square. They are expressing a demand for human rights in a culture that does not allow them to articulate that wish. As chief prosecutor, Maria Bashir has sought to […]
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Utne Reader: The Best Tumblrs for Magazine Freaks
Utne Reader: The Best Tumblrs for Magazine Freaks utnereader: Longreads – A regularly-updated aggregator of the best long-form journalism Mother Jones – Only one thing is as delightful to read as the kicking-ass-and-taking-names investigative journalism of Mother Jones: the snarky, up-to-the-minute commentary from the MoJo web crew FastCo – … Thanks Utne Reader!
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motherjones: Inside the “lavish,” “debauched” lifestyle of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the son of the dictator of Equatorial Guinea. Beyond the oil money, all-night parties, Playboy bunnies, and 15,000-square-foot Malibu mansion, there’s the larger question of whether Teodoro has used shell companies to funnel $100 million into the United States. Click here for deets and […]
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“Some people think that arresting Bosco would unravel the peace deal between Congo and Rwanda,” he says. “I think that that’s not true. You could certainly make a case that arresting him could be stabilizing.” He’s divisive within the former CNDP. He’s become an incredibly powerful mineral smuggler, the cause of much of Congo’s conflict. […]
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“They accuse us of being misguided and of spreading half-truths. They accuse us of being emotional. Well, if we are emotional, it is because this pipeline threatens our water, our health, our homes, and our way of life. If we are misguided and spreading half-truths, it is because TransCanada has misguided us and told us […]
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Featured Longreader: Nick Baumann, news editor for Mother Jones. See his story picks from Grantland, The New York Times and more on his #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: B. Fitzgerald Reading, environmentalist/feminist. See her story picks from Tom Dispatch, Mother Jones and more on her #longreads page.
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Feld Entertainment portrays its population of some 50 endangered Asian elephants as “pampered performers” who “are trained through positive reinforcement, a system of repetition and reward that encourages an animal to show off its innate athletic abilities.” But a yearlong Mother Jones investigation shows that Ringling elephants spend most of their long lives either in […]
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Feld Entertainment portrays its population of some 50 endangered Asian elephants as “pampered performers” who “are trained through positive reinforcement, a system of repetition and reward that encourages an animal to show off its innate athletic abilities.” But a yearlong Mother Jones investigation shows that Ringling elephants spend most of their long lives either in […]
