Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
This is a remarkably beautiful act of bravery. This is Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist who is an advocate and activist for religious freedom and women’s rights. Vox / Via youtube.com Since 1979, all women in Iran have been required to cover their hair in public. Vox / Via youtube.com In 2014, approximately 3.6 million women in…
THIS month, the headlines were about a Muslim man in Boston who was accused of threatening police officers with a knife. Last month, two Muslims attacked an anti-Islamic conference in Garland, Tex. The month before, a Muslim man was charged with plotting to drive a truck bomb onto a military installation in Kansas. If you…
Slouched deep in a swivel chair, knees bouncing up and down and hands gesticulating excitedly, Michael Pettis can’t contain his enthusiasm over “an explosion of creativity” in China’s underground rock music scene. Carsick Cars, the best-known band on Pettis’s music label Maybe Mars, has just won a semi-official award for exporting culture while another, Chui…
As a recent Peace Corps volunteer in the DR, stationed near the border of Haiti, I have a very personal perspective on this issue. This may be hard to believe for most Americans, but racism in the DR is much worse than racism here in the United States. The idea of being black in the…
Britain’s top credit rating is at risk because of Prime Minister David Cameron’s planned European Union referendum, according to Standard & Poor’s. In a statement on Friday, S&P lowered the outlook on the country’s AAA rating to “negative” from “stable.” That means there’s a one-in-three chance of a downgrade in the next two years. It…
The alternative lodging site has some interesting views on the city’s neighborhoods. View Full Caption DNAinfo Illustration NEW YORK CITY — What does Airbnb think about New York City neighborhoods? The site, which connects travelers looking for an alternative to hotels with residents in cities across the world, features write-ups of many of the city’s ‘hoods….
The New York Police Department is having trouble diversifying its ranks because so many black men have criminal records, according to Police Chief Bill Bratton. “We have a significant population gap among African-American males because so many of them have spent time in jail and, as such, we can’t hire them,” Bratton told the Guardian…
The Texas State Board of Education is studying how textbook publishers responded to the state’s ideologically driven guidelines for teaching history. The results, say historians, are dire. Four years ago, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) adopted new standards, known as TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills), for social studies textbooks in the state’s…
Judicial Watch has – for many years – obtained sensitive U.S. government documents through freedom of information requests and lawsuits. The government just produced documents to Judicial Watch in response to a freedom of information suit which show that the West has long supported ISIS. The documents were written by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency…
The revelations contradict the official line of Western government on their policies in Syria, and raise disturbing questions about secret Western support for violent extremists abroad, while using the burgeoning threat of terror to justify excessive mass surveillance and crackdowns on civil liberties at home. Among the batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch through…