Who was Dr. George Tiller?
Any doctor who chooses to provide abortions in America, where there is a pervasive and largely accepted climate of harassment and intimidation against those who do, is undoubtedly an immensely...
Category: Crime
The Irish Catholic Church and child abuse: It’s not about “bad apples”
It is public knowledge that the Catholic Church ruled the roost in Ireland. The Church's education system was harsh and children in school were beaten. The allegations of child sexual abuse were...
John Worboys: serial rapist aided by police neglect
The U.K. has a rape conviction rate of 6%. According to the Campaign to End Rape, in 2003/04 " ver two-thirds of cases dropped out at the police stage and did not make it as far as the courts", "...
Educate yourselves! Finance and real crime
On a typical evening, we are inundated with images of people of color as criminals. While it is true that blacks are overrepresented in the prison population, there are more whites in prison....
In memory of Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov
This is a special edition of this column. Yesterday, in broad daylight, in the center of Moscow, a human rights lawyer and a journalist were gunned down. Lawyer Stanislav Markelov was most famous for...
Oscar Grant, police violence and the war on black men
In the United States, there are more black men in prison than there are in college. There are racists that would attribute this phenomenon to the supposed "natural criminal instinct" of black...
Under siege: on Oscar Grant and other victims
Cold. Blooded. Murder. What else can you call what occurred on New Year's Day in Oakland? A BART officer caught on tape shooting transit passenger Oscar Grant in the back, while Grant lay flat on his...
50 billion dollar scam: the saga of Bernard Madoff
Regulation failures have just become a punchline of a truly sick joke these days as the global financial system melts down. Yet the exposure of Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme...
OJ Simpson: justice today for crimes of yesterday
Yesterday was the culmination of the fall from grace for “The Juice.” The once beloved football star, and darling of advertising companies, was informed he would be a guest in the Nevada Penal...
The death of Duanna Johnson
To be born a woman of color in this world is a difficult thing; as cumulatively we occupy the bottom of the race and class hierarchy. We are unique in that we have no institutionalized other. Our...