[Obama’s] words will be little consolation for 8-year-old Nabila, who, on Oct. 24, had just returned from school and was playing in a field outside her house with her siblings and cousins while her grandmother picked flowers. At 2:30 p.m., a Hellfire missile came out of the sky and struck right in front of Nabila. Her grandmother was badly burned and succumbed to her injuries; Nabila survived with severe burns and shrapnel wounds in her shoulder. Nabila doesn’t know who Mr. Obama is, or where the Hellfire missile that killed her grandmother came from.

~   The Forgotten Victims of Obama’s Drone War (via theamericanbear)
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sandandglass:

Wayne Allyn Root - seriously, look his face in the last gif. 

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travelingcolors: Hammerfest | Norway (by Philip Arthur LRPS)
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ryanpanos: THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Twelve First Volumes to be soon Published by Punctum Books via The Funambulist “I am happy to announce that the twelve first volumes of The Funambulist Pamphlets, a series of small books collecting articles written for the blog, will be published by Punctum Books as part of the CTM Documents Initiativeseries all along this summer. Such an opportunity was made possible by Eileen Joy, director of Punctum Books and Ed Keller, associate dean at Parsons The New School of Design and director of the Center for Transformative Media; I am very grateful for the trust they put in me. This series of Pamphlets has twelve volumes for now but will be able to expand in the future, it will allows a collection of article by themes as well as a reading of them in a correct(ed) English (thanks to Anna Kłosowska and Eileen Joy).” -  Léopold Lambert
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inthesetimesmag: Out of the tragedy of the massive garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, workers have now won two major reforms: 1) A panel to raise the minimum wage in the garment industry and 2) The right to form trade unions without prior permission from factory owners.Still, more pressure—and responsibility—need to be placed upon America’s big-brand companies to win further protections. Two Wins for Bangladesh Garment Workers, But the Fight Isn’t Over
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theatlantic: Obama’s New Drone Policy, in One Easy Flowchart
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theanti90smovement:

*straight white guy voice* how is that offensive?

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historyartandstuff: Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926), American artist, part of the Hudson River School. 1902 “Moonlight Seascape”
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shutupmerlin:

My grandmother grew up in this tiny village in Barbados, and she was the only kid in the village to have a cricket bat. She used to play with all the boys, but then they started stealing the bat every time she bought it out of the house and saying that she couldn’t play because girls shouldn’t play sport. So one day she invited them to come play cricket, then set fire to the bat and made them watch it burn, so none of them could play cricket anymore. She was 11.   

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nevver: Seattle
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willigula: The Ideal City by Ronald Lampitt, 1951 check the parthenon in the back <3
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think-progress: The Bangladesh garment factory that collapsed, killing 1,100, used the worst-quality construction materials possible.  Meanwhile, Gap, Walmart and Target do nothing.
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