Category: The Struggle for Peace

This article attempts to villify suffragettes as violent while documenting that even the most militant attacked only property. The suffragettes pioneered hunger strikes and non-violent civil disobedience long before Gandhi.

http://www.historytoday.com/fern-riddell/weaker-sex-violence-and-suffragette-movement

Editor of major German newspaper admits planting stories for CIA and claims this is routine in Western media

He claims the purpose of the stories is to drive countries to war.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/editor-of-major-german-newspaper-says-he-planted-stories-for-cia/article/424470

Ties between tech companies and the NSA, the military establishment and climate deniers.

Feminists have always been at the forefront of human rights, environmental and peace movements.  The challenges continue.
http://pando.com/2014/05/13/emails-showing-googles-closeness-with-the-nsa-director-really-arent-that-surprising/
http://pando.com/2014/03/29/google-apparently-scrubs-military-contractor-partner-listing-after-pando-report/
http://pando.com/2014/08/19/microsoft-cuts-ties-with-right-wing-climate-change-deniers-alec-but-what-about-facebook-google-and-yelp/

A new Milgram type experiment has found one particular group held steady and refused destructive orders: "women who had previously participated in rebellious political activism such as strikes or occupying a factory."

The study also found that people holding left-wing political views were less willing to hurt others. One particular group held steady and refused destructive orders: “women who had previously participated in rebellious political activism such as strikes or occupying a factory.”

http://mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-nice-all-the-time