These people, a large number of female supporters of Hillary, are so focused
on having a woman for President, that they are not thinking rationally about
the issues or speaking rationally either.
Miriam
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If a man said what Gloria Steinhem said than he would have rightfully been
branded "a male chauvenist pig". Now, that said I have a great deal of
respect for her and all that she has done over the years. Still do. Everyone
has a slip of the tongue on these issues from time to time including me. I
was more taken aback though by her comments than Albrights, only because
Albright is a pure political animal and this type of thing was expected.
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"misspoke."
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Dear Hillary, Madeleine and Gloria: Full Feminism Demands We Say No to
America's Deadly Imperial Wars By Sarah Lazare [1] / AlterNet [2]
February 8, 2016 Two powerful backers of Hillary Clinton attracted
headlines-and outrage-this weekend when they uttered sweeping
statements under the banner of "feminism," calling on young women to
back the former Secretary of State's presidential bid.
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of
Sate, introduced Clinton in New Hampshire on Saturday by declaring,
"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other!"
In the days following, many have scrutinized the hawkish track record
of Albright, who also served as the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations. In just one example, Albright told "60 Minutes" in 1996 that
half a million children who died [3] as a result of U.S. sanctions
against Iran were "worth" the price.
"Albright has a hell of a lot of nerve telling young women who may be
very concerned about Clinton's support for virtually all U.S. wars of
recent years that they should vote for her because she's a woman,"
Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies,
told AlterNet.
Meanwhile, speaking with HBO's "Real Time" host Bill Maher on Friday,
feminist icon Gloria Steinem claimed that young women are backing
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in order to meet guys. Women get
"more activist as they grow older," she said. "And when you're
younger, you
think:
'Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie.'" Steinem later
apologized for the comment on her Facebook page, writing [4] that she
Nonetheless, the statement rightfully provoked rebuke, including fromwar-related causes.
some who grew up respecting Steinem. "The good news is that more and
more of us are ready to change the whole system, and fewer and fewer
are willing to believe that imperial feminism [5] is the best we can
do," declared [6] Philadelphia-based writer Sarah Grey.
These recent controversial comments stem from a broader campaign
strategy, with Clinton leveraging high-profile (and often white and
wealthy) self-avowed feminists to bolster her campaign. Among them is
Lena Dunham, the creator of the hit series "Girls," who has sought to
win support for Clinton among young women.
Feminists should unequivocally declare that Clinton's policies of war
and empire that kill, wound and traumatize women around the world are
not compatible with feminism. Of course we defend any woman, including
Clinton, against sexism. But that defense must not lead to reflexive
embrace of an entire platform, nor claims that elite politicians like
Clinton somehow have a monopoly on feminism.
As Rania Masri, an activist and associate director of the Asfari
Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University
of Beirut, put it in an interview with AlterNet, "Feminism demands a
critique of U.S.
policies, both domestically and internationally. It demands a critique
of all wars and all hegemonies and of all structures of oppression."
Masri noted that these concepts are not new, and in fact, have been
built up by powerful and visionary feminists, many of them people of
color, including the poet and organizer Audre Lorde, who urged nuanced
and intersectional movements. "There is no thing as a single-issue
struggle because we do not live single-issue lives," Lorde famously
said.
Clinton's foreign policy, however, falls in line with policies of war
and empire. As a U.S. senator for New York, Clinton cast one of the
most influential votes in favor of the 2003 Iraq war, signaling to
other Democrats to back the invasion. She has since acknowledged this
decision was a mistake, but her actions indicate she has learned
nothing.
Under the Obama administration, Clinton consistently represented the
pro-war wing, advocating military aggression and escalation from Iraq
and Libya to Afghanistan and Ukraine. She was cautious on the global
nuclear deal, saying she would "not hesitate" to take military action
against Iran, and during her campaign declared [7] her unbreakable
bond with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In her memoir
Hard Choices, Clinton took credit for the military pivot to the
Asia-Pacific, which continues to escalate military buildup and
aggression region-wide to hedge against China.
Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Clinton has been conspicuously
silent about close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia's brutal military assault on
Yemen, now into its tenth month. She has said nothing about ethnic
cleansing and war crimes perpetuated by Israel, while vowing [8] to
donors to crush the Palestinian human rights movement for boycott,
divestment and sanctions (BDS).
Foreign Policy in Focus columnist Conn Hallinan recently took on the
grim task of attempting [9] to tally those killed in foreign policy
disasters related to Clinton. According to some calculations, the 2003
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq killed over one million people due to
Nearly a quarter million Afghans have died since the 2001 U.S."misspoke."
invasion of Afghanistan, and millions more have been forced to flee
their homes and become refugees.
In June 2014, I spoke [10] with Yanar Mohammed of the Organization of
Women's Freedom in Iraq, who warned against further U.S. military
intervention in the country. "These wars are against women," Mohammed
said, "and women are becoming the first victims."
Sarah Lazare is a staff writer for AlterNet. A former staff writer for
Common Dreams, Sarah co-edited the book About Face: Military Resisters
Turn Against War. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahlazare [11].
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America's Deadly Imperial Wars By Sarah Lazare [1] / AlterNet [2]
February 8, 2016 Two powerful backers of Hillary Clinton attracted
headlines-and outrage-this weekend when they uttered sweeping
statements under the banner of "feminism," calling on young women to
back the former Secretary of State's presidential bid.
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of
Sate, introduced Clinton in New Hampshire on Saturday by declaring,
"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other!"
In the days following, many have scrutinized the hawkish track record
of Albright, who also served as the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations. In just one example, Albright told "60 Minutes" in 1996 that
half a million children who died [3] as a result of U.S. sanctions
against Iran were "worth" the price.
"Albright has a hell of a lot of nerve telling young women who may be
very concerned about Clinton's support for virtually all U.S. wars of
recent years that they should vote for her because she's a woman,"
Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies,
told AlterNet.
Meanwhile, speaking with HBO's "Real Time" host Bill Maher on Friday,
feminist icon Gloria Steinem claimed that young women are backing
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in order to meet guys. Women get
"more activist as they grow older," she said. "And when you're
younger, you
think:
'Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie.'" Steinem later
apologized for the comment on her Facebook page, writing [4] that she
Nonetheless, the statement rightfully provoked rebuke, including fromwar-related causes.
some who grew up respecting Steinem. "The good news is that more and
more of us are ready to change the whole system, and fewer and fewer
are willing to believe that imperial feminism [5] is the best we can
do," declared [6] Philadelphia-based writer Sarah Grey.
These recent controversial comments stem from a broader campaign
strategy, with Clinton leveraging high-profile (and often white and
wealthy) self-avowed feminists to bolster her campaign. Among them is
Lena Dunham, the creator of the hit series "Girls," who has sought to
win support for Clinton among young women.
Feminists should unequivocally declare that Clinton's policies of war
and empire that kill, wound and traumatize women around the world are
not compatible with feminism. Of course we defend any woman, including
Clinton, against sexism. But that defense must not lead to reflexive
embrace of an entire platform, nor claims that elite politicians like
Clinton somehow have a monopoly on feminism.
As Rania Masri, an activist and associate director of the Asfari
Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University
of Beirut, put it in an interview with AlterNet, "Feminism demands a
critique of U.S.
policies, both domestically and internationally. It demands a critique
of all wars and all hegemonies and of all structures of oppression."
Masri noted that these concepts are not new, and in fact, have been
built up by powerful and visionary feminists, many of them people of
color, including the poet and organizer Audre Lorde, who urged nuanced
and intersectional movements. "There is no thing as a single-issue
struggle because we do not live single-issue lives," Lorde famously
said.
Clinton's foreign policy, however, falls in line with policies of war
and empire. As a U.S. senator for New York, Clinton cast one of the
most influential votes in favor of the 2003 Iraq war, signaling to
other Democrats to back the invasion. She has since acknowledged this
decision was a mistake, but her actions indicate she has learned
nothing.
Under the Obama administration, Clinton consistently represented the
pro-war wing, advocating military aggression and escalation from Iraq
and Libya to Afghanistan and Ukraine. She was cautious on the global
nuclear deal, saying she would "not hesitate" to take military action
against Iran, and during her campaign declared [7] her unbreakable
bond with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In her memoir
Hard Choices, Clinton took credit for the military pivot to the
Asia-Pacific, which continues to escalate military buildup and
aggression region-wide to hedge against China.
Meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Clinton has been conspicuously
silent about close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia's brutal military assault on
Yemen, now into its tenth month. She has said nothing about ethnic
cleansing and war crimes perpetuated by Israel, while vowing [8] to
donors to crush the Palestinian human rights movement for boycott,
divestment and sanctions (BDS).
Foreign Policy in Focus columnist Conn Hallinan recently took on the
grim task of attempting [9] to tally those killed in foreign policy
disasters related to Clinton. According to some calculations, the 2003
U.S.-led invasion of Iraq killed over one million people due to
Nearly a quarter million Afghans have died since the 2001 U.S.
invasion of Afghanistan, and millions more have been forced to flee
their homes and become refugees.
In June 2014, I spoke [10] with Yanar Mohammed of the Organization of
Women's Freedom in Iraq, who warned against further U.S. military
intervention in the country. "These wars are against women," Mohammed
said, "and women are becoming the first victims."
Sarah Lazare is a staff writer for AlterNet. A former staff writer for
Common Dreams, Sarah co-edited the book About Face: Military Resisters
Turn Against War. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahlazare [11].
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/deepa-kumar/imperialist-feminism-and-lib
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l-and-benjamin-neta/
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unneli
ng-millions-clinton-campaign
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