by Heather Hastie | Feb 20, 2020 | Democracy, Human Rights, US Politics
With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other runners, and their supporters, are digging into his past to find any dirt they can to discredit him. The primary...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 29, 2018 | Human Rights, Terrorism, US Politics
Most days I see examples of the fact of the high level racism in the US*. In particular, there is plenty of exposure of the racism against African-, Hispanic-, Latino-, and Native-Americans on my TV screen. When it comes to the sites I look at on the internet, the...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 18, 2018 | Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Middle East, US Politics
Each day for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developments overnight mean much of the post is redundant. Now, the story has been headline news for so long, as it...
by Heather Hastie | Aug 9, 2018 | Health, Human Rights, US Politics
This quick post about Trump and asbestos is mainly to let you know I’m still here, as well as to bring an un-effing-believable situation to your attention. I’ve had my new chair for about ten days. I assumed everything would be hunky-dory as soon as I got...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 19, 2018 | Human Rights, South and Central America, US Politics, USA
The latest tactic of the Trump administration to stop illegal crossings of their southern border is horrific. It is child abuse, pure and simple. As most of you probably already know, the US is now separating all parents and children when they SUSPECT the parents...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 19, 2018 | Australia, Human Rights, New Zealand, Religion, Sport
I wasn’t sure what to write about today, then I got The Author’s weekly email. The Author is the brilliant Jesus and Mo cartoonist. His strip this week is about religious morality, and it brought to mind the big news story in New Zealand and Australia at...
