This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump may just have been Trump-talking when he said, by way of rationale for escalating the US war on Afghanistan, that it shows “no place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms.” But it’s no joke that for elite media, there really is no alternative definition for American “might” other than American arms. In all the chatter about Afghanistan, the idea that there are other ways for a country to show strength besides killing people, or threatening to, is the worldview that dare not speak its name. We’ll talk about Afghanistan and the press with analyst and activist Phyllis Bennis. She is director of the New Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author of Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer
Transcript: This Has Always Been a Failed and Failing War
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Also on the show: “There’s always a jury and it’s always still out”—that’s how one woman, a lecturer in computer science, described the discrimination against women working in technology, surrounded by people like the Google engineer fired recently for a memo ascribing women and people of color’s underrepresentation as due in part to “biological differences.” With their “some say/others differ” approach to the issue of structural bias, corporate media keep afloat this idea that we “just don’t know” whether or not “some people” aren’t just better suited for tech jobs than others. Except we do know; we really do. We’ll hear about that from Marie Hicks, assistant professor of history of technology at the University of Wisconsin/Madison, and author of the book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.
Transcript: Women Were in Fact Pioneers in Computing Work
Maybe the ex- employee google person and others should read the novel ,Pope Joan, by Donna Woolfolk Cross.
It’s got an awfullly fun response to those who think that brains are found in the sex organs! : ) I hope it’s o.k.to quote this part.
” St Paul asserted that man is superior to woman in: conception, place and will.”
BUT “Eve ws creared second made from Adam’s side, while he was made of common clay.”
“Eve was created inside of Paradise, but Adam was created outside.”
“Eve ate of the apple for love of knowlesge, but Adam ate merely because she asked him to.”
Maybe there really was a female Pope once….but even if not, it was a novel full of fun ideas…at least for the ladies….. nd remember Abigail Adams did say so long ago, ‘Remember the ladies..: to her husband. : )
Women have greater intelligence then men. In this regards, men are of the opinion that women must be in submission to men and to accomplish this they would have to be more intelligent.
Especially in the uneducated lower-half of society, the impoverished laboring-class,
For laboring men never win in divorce court, causing most laboring men to live separate from their minor children and the laboring-class to be a matriarch ruled society.
Men of the educated middle-class are the gods of society, they being all the police, military officers and all of those most capable to organize a Revolution.
For men of middle-class never lose in divorce court and in every aspect of society educated men with their middle speed minds are given the preference.
If the purpose of this world is to reach the ultimate conclusion of men desiring the power and glory that comes from wealth, then that would explain why it is that the weaker sex have no rights but what men decide to give them.
Fore rightly understood, neither women nor all the heavenly realms are intervening in the affairs of men.
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