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ssible to assess those with 100 accuracy when the person one is evaluating only exists in the electronic boxes in one s home that i was merely indulging a hobby a rather masochistic hobby i was amassing the data evaluating it and applying it to the progressive values we ve taught our kids the values that my family and i strive to uphold in all areas of life not just politics i was doing my job as the neck in 2008 i was genuinely torn to my mind there was not that much difference between barack obama and hillary clinton all things being equal i told myself my feminist self i would have to support the woman candidate because she would bring to the nation s highest office a range of experiential qualities that a man never could in the same way that prior to giving birth to my first child i always thought i knew what agonizing physical pain was i had after all broken long bones while riding horses and i d suffered through a few tropical viruses but in reality could not possibly know what it was really like until i d gone through it myself likewise then a man even a man who was the most empathetic creature on the planet could nonetheless never truly understand what it was like to go through life as a woman in our culture that mattered a great deal to me it still does i connected with hillary clinton on a number of levels just as the data tells us that women in my demographic tend to we ve experienced sexism and harassment we ve been underestimated and underpaid we ve seen our perceived worth reduced to our fuckability and outward appearance even as we are simultaneously told to cover up those attributes lest we cause a helpless male superior at work or else some rando dude in the parking lot to accidentally rape us ah yes rape that vile and violent power display thing only a woman could truly know at the experiential level what all that shit feels like how it talks to us deep inside our brains telling us we are not as good not as smart not pretty enough not thin enough too thin too pretty too loud too quiet and now for me anyway too old even as we manage to do well in the face of all of that because if we were lucky we had a role model or two in our family or circle of friends who insisted that we could or else we found in the literature or art or cinema some small gem of wisdom and affirmation that made us realize we could indeed look at what we ve been through we already have at the same time though and despite the powerful impetus to link arms with hillary clinton and support her in her quest to become the country s first woman president i could not ignore her iraq vote the two candidates were so similar in so many ways but that one difference meant a lot to me i believed 2008 barack obama when he said he would end the wars and bring everyone home more than that i believed him when he said he did not go along with the herd he did not cave to pressure from war hawks and this in turn indicated that even as a young senator he had his own mind and he had the right ethics the kind of ethics that had him standing up to the murderous george w bush and his colleagues our dinner conversations began to center around barack obama we read his book dreams from my father well i did i can t say for sure if the boys did i still longed for a really left leaning candidate one who broke free from the neoliberals in the democratic party the way that terrific outspoken democratic socialist bernie sanders did in the senate if bernie ever runs for president i declared i m becoming a citizen so i can go with you guys to the poll and vote for him myself fast forward to last year bernie announced his run and i filed for citizenship something i know well i should have done years ago i ve been eligible since 1979 but didn t because a big part of my heart still lived in england where other socialists like me were living and living in the sunlight unashamed and unassailed and i felt it would be unethical to become an american when that english part of me still had blood flowing through it bernie a democratic socialist possibly becoming president well then and here we are we re looking at the increasing inevitability that despite a heroic run by senator sanders hillary clinton will be the democratic nominee but i can t vote for her even though i am now a citizen as well as a feminist it s the war foreign policy thing again the foreign policy history that secretary clinton forged between 2008 and now it s about libya and especially for me honduras the latter received such scant coverage in this country it broke and continues to break my heart but it matters a great deal you see i lived in honduras as a young teen lived through the 1974 coup and another part of my heart is with the people of that country too last week an activist for the indigenous people and campesinos small farmers and women of honduras a brave and beloved woman activist named berta cáceres was shot dead in her home what does this have to do with hillary clinton in 2009 as secretary of state clinton shepherded in the new hard right school of the americas trained military junta who ousted a democratically elected president manuel zelaya ousted is not quite the right word after a contentious back and forth between zelaya and the far more rightwing factions of the government soldiers broke into the president s house beat him up held him at gunpoint and dragged him onto a plane still in his pajamas and flew him out of the country a bit of background mel zelaya was himself a member of oligarchic society in honduras as you are probably aware honduras is practically a case study in what goes wrong when income equality gets too out of hand you have a tiny few owning everything and you have multinational corporations joining forces with them to seize every resource there is and you have a vast many who have virtually nothing nothing often means no electricity no running water no shelter no food you have fifteen year olds with aks strapped to them stopping you in the street at gunpoint to ask for your id and when you hand them your passport they look at it upside down because they don t know how to read true story you have indigenous people being abused at every turn having their waterways seized for dam projects their land and mountains destroyed by mining interests their fields taken over by corporate fruit industries you have a population kept in line by all the traditional fascistic means sexism hard line religion in the case of honduras the catholic church and militarized police forces who beat and kill who make people disappear but zelaya despite his upbringing had the heart of a leftist once elected he set about making birth control available to poor women even plan b he stood up and apologized for the country s history of persecuting lgbt individuals and told them they were okay they would be safe now he constantly advocated for the poor for the indigenous communities for the campesinos he worked alongside berta cáceres and other activists like her he was in the process of pushing for a significant raise in the country s minimum wage when he was ousted when the coup happened in 2009 president obama at first condemned it as did the un as did the oas many latin american leaders were calling for the us to do something to demand that zelaya be allowed to return to his country where tens of thousands of people were marching in the street peacefully protesting and calling for their president s safe return and getting beaten and shot for their trouble in a few days the press moved on suddenly our us president was saying nothing hillary clinton s emails released last summer tell us why she was very actively involved in supporting the installation of the new right wing government this has been covered by democracy now telesur and other alternative media this piece in the nation written by noted latin american scholar greg grandin is a good one to start with why is this important to me and why should it be important to every feminist who is voting in the presidential election because of what happened in the aftermath of zelaya s violent removal from office in 2009 in the years between then and 2016 draconian abortion laws were put into place birth control became unaffordable once again and plan b was banned lgbt individuals were beaten and killed after they had just begun to feel as though this was their country too they were free now it was oh sorry you re actually not safe you will be beaten if you re lucky murdered and mutilated if you re not multinationals got their footholds strengthened as militarized police forces beat and killed protestors and well documented at this point the ensuing chaos and mind bending levels of violence that beset the largest cities particularly san pedro sula led families who feared for their children s lives many families had already lost loved ones to drug gang violence to send them on a long and frightening journey to the us border where they hoped their kids would somehow find asylum and safety meaning these children would have to travel through honduras through guatemala and the entirety of mexico parents reading this please imagine how desperate you would have to be how dire your circumstances would have to be for you to kiss your small kids goodbye and put them on a rickety bus and hope against hope they would make it to safety secretary clinton said they should be sent back these kids said this would send a message i actually watched the debate during which she said this and shouted at my television send a message to whom i know i ve rambled on to put it mildly but i was finally moved to speak and i had a lot to say i have been reading the discussions everywhere about people s support for secretary clinton based on feminist principles and always the discussion turns to the same questions why are you denying my experience as a woman why can t you see how important it is to me as a woman to have a woman be able to rise above all the things we have all faced and be elected to the country s highest office why aren t you listening to me meanwhile i a feminist a mother a target of sexual harassment and sexism am asking why aren t you listening to me the world does not begin and end at the us borders back channeling deals to install rightwing military juntas that impose and enforce draconian reproductive laws is not feminist back channeling deals to install rightwing military juntas that silence by bullet more than a few women activists is not feminist when lgbt people are beaten and killed when women who are raped can t get abortions when women who live in a highly patriarchal culture cannot even access ways to plan their families which in turn seals their fate as permanent members of the underclass so favored among multinationals who need cheap motivated labor these results are not feminist goals thanks for reading now you know why when i say i feel the bern i really mean it this post also appears at radioornot posted by deborah newell at 1 52 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 06 2015 on this day how could we how could we i am sharing this email with the permission of its author the venerable civil rights attorney guy saperstein whom i am privileged to call my friend and correspondent photos via wikipedia and commondreams added by me dnt e xactly 70 years ago on the morning of august 6 1945 the enola gay a boeing b 29 superfortress bomber flew over hiroshima and dropped the first atomic bomb on humans the bomb exploded 2 000 above the ground and five square miles of hiroshima was completely destroyed incinerating and killing 90 000 people 70 000 more people would die soon after from burns and radiation nearly all the killed people were civilians three days later on august 9 1945 the united states would drop a second atomic bomb on nagasaki killing 70 000 civilians president truman justified the use of nuclear weapons on military necessity the need to avoid an invasion of japan which would have cost american military lives but in fact every one of truman s military advisors and his commander of the u s army in the far east douglas macarthur and dwight eisenhower supreme commander of the allied forces advised truman that using nuclear weapons was not necessary to defeat the japanese who had a delegation in washington d c negotiating for peace and expressly advised truman against using the bombs historic records of truman s administration later would reveal that use of nuclear weapons was never directed at japan truman s secretary of state james byrnes had convinced truman that the soviet union would emerge from wwii as america s only rival and we needed to show them we had nuclear weapons and were willing to use them dropping the bombs on japan was an attempt to dictate post war terms to the ussr not defeat japan i t was the beginning of the cold war and the greatest single act of terrorism in the history of the world all of this has been documented by historians most notably gar alperovitz in two books atomic diplomacy and the decision to use the atomic bomb alperovitz scholarship has stood up for 40 years of course this is not the version taught in schools and not the version popular in public conversation in america america doesn t do introspection america doesn t do contrition america fights terrorism but never looks at its own acts of terrorism but maybe we could look at it today posted by deborah newell at 8 15 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 30 2015 mama deborah s vegetable soup stew really as is my wont usually when it s cold or rainy obviously it was the latter this week i get in the mood to make soup soup is a wonderful forgiving foodstuff unlike baking where you have to pay close attention to the precisely measured amounts of most ingredients anyway soup making allows you to customize like mad if you adore thyme go ahead and throw in some more if you re trying to cut back on sodium eliminate most of the salt if you ve got a surplus of carrots lying around in the fridge well no one is going to argue with the sweet carroty flavor and extra dose of vitamin a this week s soup is offering you can be totally creative and health conscious while thriftily using up leftover vegetables from your last supermarket run or csa delivery there really aren t too many rules i made the soup in the photograph above this week and a few people asked me for the recipe i m sort of embarrassed to admit that i don t really have a recipe per se but i hope they ll like what i m offering instead a general guideline for making one s own fabulous vegetable soup do it once and you ll love the results and process so much it will become a habit especially as fall draws near this was an enormous amount as i have a big and hungry family you should feel free to divide the quantities and add or eliminate ingredients as you see fit start with a big stock pot...