'Virtually entire' fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour, say rights groups

Via: Sean  •  News & Politics  •  11 Comments  •  1 Like  •  4 years ago

“Many of the world’s biggest fashion brands and retailers are complicit in the forced labour and human rights violations being perpetrated on...”

Victims of Communism Day 2019

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“Why May 1 should be a day to honor the victims of the ideology that took more innocent lives than any other.”

Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have advocated using this date as an international Victims of Communism Day. I outlined the rationale for this proposal (which was not my original idea) in my very first post on the subject: May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists,...

Film Review: ‘Chappaquiddick’

Via: Sean  •  News & Politics  •  51 Comments  •  6 years ago

Over the years, a great many actors have taken a turn at playing one of the Kennedy brothers (in made-for-TV movies, on “Saturday Night Live,” in big-screen historical dramas). The vast majority of these performances have been mediocre, a handful have been quite good, and a few have been...