Monthly Archives: May 2005
What Kind of Love Excludes?
“I will never understand those who proclaim love as the foundation of life, while denying so radically protection, understanding and affection to our neighbors, our friends, our relatives, our colleagues,” Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero told parliament in a ‘state of the nation’ address… Continue reading
Paragraph 175: The Holocaust and Homosexuals
Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world’s conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Watch the film online at PBS Frontline… Continue reading
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Amy Goodman and Corporate Media Propaganda
A nation at war – and especially one fought far away – ought to bare the reality of that war, at the very least, by seeing up-close what it means for those fighting or living through it: pain, suffering, misery, gore, torture, humiliation and death. The media ought to serve the public interest by giving us the full story… Continue reading
The Evolution of Marriage
Recent changes in marriage are part of a worldwide upheaval in family life that has transformed the way people conduct their personal lives as thoroughly and permanently as the Industrial Revolution transformed their working lives 200 years ago. Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies… Continue reading
