The following is a release from Lion's Pride Idaho and comes after the group requested an apology from Rep. John A. "Bert" Stevenson (R-Rupert) for comments made during a segment on "Zeb at the Ranch" with Zeb Bell. Yesterday Rep. Stevenson made another appearance on the prog...

The Armenian Gay & Lesbian Association of NY posts a short video of a recent presentation on homophobia in Armenia. Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the video in a separate post which also includes an excerpt detailing a documented case of rape in the Armenian army....

Denford Magora’s Zimbabwe Blog Latest Zimbabwe News Latest Zimbabwe Pictures, Comment and Analysis Daily. This blew my head off last december; about the same time as I discovered Jestina Mukoko had also been kidnapped. a Two Year old in Zimbabwe’s Maximum Prison, being used to force his ...

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Few outsiders know more (or write more intelligently) on Sudan than Alex de Waal. Today he eloquently rips into the ICC: The ICC arrest warrant against President Omar al Bashir heralds a new erafor global governance and human rights. But it is not at all clear what will bethe character of this new e...

How did 5 alleged Al Qaeda members come together to form this statement, given that they are being held each in isolation at Gitmo? Are they allowed to meet and discuss various topics, including... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

Bernard L. Madoff, the man said to have bilked scores of his Jewish friends and philanthropies out of billions of dollars, is expected to plead guilty this week to charges of running Wall Street's biggest fraud. The former Nasdaq stock market chairman allegedly confessed to running a "giant Ponzi sc...

The Beijing government is celebrating the crushing of the uprising by sending in the troops and maintaining the media blackout of Tibet. At least the Olympics helped change everything with China.The Chinese government has made life "hell on Earth" for Tibetans during the half-century since a failed ...

A quick follow on to my post from last week trying to summarize my friend Rebecca MacKinnon’s wide ranging and fascinating talk on Chinese internet culture. OxfamUnwrapped.com: Alpaca One of the commenters on my blog - Tumshie - was kind enough to point out that the video used by Chinese activ...

WARNING: RAMBLING AND SELF-INDULGENT WHITE HETEROSEXUAL MALE AHEAD… My partner used to work in women’s refuges. Rochdale, Newbury, Chelsea. She’d come home with tales of what men had done to their partners that would, without a word of a lie, make an Uzbek prison torturer whistle i...