A NIGHTMARE HAS BEGUN June 16, 2013
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The Story that keeps on giving because those responsible keep on taking. Invasion of privacy by the NSA appears to have been out of control and definitely not accountable to Congress or any Parliament around the world.
“TERRORISM” AND DRONES June 3, 2013
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Drone strikes transcend national boundaries and national jurisdictions, and at least for now, conducted either by the CIA or the US military, under some form of direction by the executive office of the US President.
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DRONE ON, IGNORING THE MURDERERS May 23, 2013
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The questions, moral and others, that surround the drone murder program in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere, are many.
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GUATEMALA: TERROR AND JUSTICE May 15, 2013
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The news cycle moves quickly. Often the reports available are comprehensive, often leaving unanswered questions. Such was the case just two or three days ago when their reports of the conviction of a former dictator of Guatemala, Jose Efrain Rios Montt, for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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ROHINGYAS REFUGEES February 22, 2013
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The human story of refugees, regardless of their origins, is never told. We are supposed to believe that they were induced them to part with their money and risk their lives to set out on risky ocean voyages.
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VISITING HUMAN RIGHTS January 29, 2013
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I am just now recharging the batteries after a stint in the Catallaxy echo chamber.
MLK’s LEGACY January 22, 2013
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Yesterday the United States jointly commemorated Martin Luther King’s day and the inauguration of the President and Vice President. Obama will leave a historical footnote as the first African-American to be both elected and re-elected as President.
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STANDING, IF NOT WALKING October 2, 2012
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This commentary from Rabbi Arthur Waskow is interesting on several grounds.
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DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL IN JEOPARDY? September 13, 2012
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Judge Forrest of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, has issued a permanent injunction on Section 1021 (b) (2) of the National Defense Authorization Act signed on 31 December 2011.
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FOLLOWING THE LEADER? August 30, 2012
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While it is unlikely, it is at least possible to change the major players in the political game in Australia through the electoral system. In the US even such a remote possibility does not exist. (more…)
ASSANGE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW August 22, 2012
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In an editorial The Washington Post suggests economic trade sanctions should be imposed on Ecuador for providing political asylum for Julian Assange.
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ASSANGE: BUTTONS PRESSED August 17, 2012
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Ecuador has granted political asylum to Julian Assange.
REFUGEE POLICY August 15, 2012
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So what is orchestrating the absurd refugee asylum policy? The obvious thing to do would be to conduct the processing of refugees in Indonesia before they got on a boat to head to Christmas Island.
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THE QUITO OPTION June 20, 2012
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Julian Assange has walked into the London Embassy and the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister says they are giving consideration to political asylum.
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IMMIGRATION AND ISRAEL June 12, 2012
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Wealthy countries are magnets for immigrants who are simultaneously fleeing oppression and seeking better a life. Israel is just one more country dealing the problem.
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JUDGE AFFIRMS NDAA DECISION June 9, 2012
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Judge Katherine Forrest placed an injunction on the application of a specific section of the National Defense Authorization Act that provided indefinite detention.
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NAKBA REMEMBERED May 16, 2012
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Palestinians have remembered Nakba, and the complicity of the Western Imperial Powers and the Jewish settlers in the dispossession from their land in 1948.
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POLITICAL POWER AS VIOLENCE April 4, 2012
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The American democratic project conceived in the opposition to a monarch is sliding, seemingly inexorably, on the the slipway to the sea of fascism. How could this happen?
