Women in Saudi Arabia are unable to travel, conduct business or marry without permission from a male guardian, and girls are still being forced into child marriages.
Margot Wallstrom’s principled stand deserves wide support from Western nations, but none has been forthcoming.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9481542/swedens-feminist-foreign-minister-has-dared-to-tell-the-truth-about-saudi-arabia-what-happens-now-concerns-us-all/
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
Chinese Women's Rights Activists being detained for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-12/womens-rights-activists-arrested-china/6310194
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
Only a male god could be this violent. . .
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/is-this-violent-passage-from-the-bible-torah-or-quran-take-the-test/
Leading feminist under fire for suggesting US fear propaganda may be used to restrict civil liberties
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/naomi-wolf-slammed-for-unhinged-conspiracy-theories-20141006-10qq5z.html
Global Warming and Global Warring
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/9/25/global_warming_and_global_warring
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/
Peaceful Protest is treated as Terrorism in America today
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