Archive for the ‘International law and structures’ Category
Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Bhí mé ag léamh píosa san Irish Times agus bhí abairt suimúil ann: "ghoid an foréigean cuid dá dhaonnacht de." Tá an túdar ag caint faoi scéal Ghearmáinais, is pearsa shamhailteach atá í gceist, ach creidím go bhfuil cuid den fhírinne ann. Sa Ghuardian inniú tá iarshaighdiúir ag scríobh faoi ...
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Monday, November 15th, 2004
This is why the United States is scared of the International Criminal Court. I'm sure his superiors will give him a little slap on the wrist, away from the public eye....
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Naomi Klein claims - and I believe her - that the US army is forbidding all men between 15 and 50 from leaving Fallujah. I try to avoid obscenities on my weblog, but sometimes it's hard.
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Monday, November 8th, 2004
I should be asleep at the moment, but I just turned on CBS news by chance and they're announcing that the Americans have 'captured' the hospital in Fallujah because they were - I kid you not - worried it would be used to treat injured insurgents. Now I am by ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2004
Among the other annoyances over the last few days was listening - for some ungodly reason - to the pundits on CNN prattle on about how Bush's mandate meant 'old Europe' should now fall in behind them. This immediately troubled me, essentially because this belief - emerging from the idea ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Tariq Ali spent a short time in Urbana last week with Allen Hall and the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS/MillerComm). I went to see him talk on Thursday, on what he described as the 'echoes of history' in Iraq. He provided some useful and interesting background information on the history ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2004
Wow. The UK Appeals Court has ruled that evidence gained by torture can be used as long as the torture is not committed by British agents. As the article says, this supports the 'contracting out' - or, I suppose, 'outsourcing' - of torture that the US is already experimenting with.
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Sunday, May 16th, 2004
I know they're defence lawyers, but still:Mr. Volzer, the lawyer for Specialist Ambuhl, said what took place at Abu Ghraib was intimidation, not torture. "I wouldn't term it abuse," he said.
In defending against the charge that Sergeant Davis stomped on a detainee's feet, his lawyer, Mr. Bergrin, said he would ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2004
Normon Solomon's latest piece on Alternet, unsurprisingly, hones in on one of the more worrying aspects of many responses to the torture in Iraq:Many politicians and pundits are saying the worst aspect of this crisis is that it presents a colossal PR problem for the United States. That kind of ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2004
The BBC report that several British citizens who had been held capitve at Guantanamo are now reporting abuses that took place there, and it seems Australians may be doing likewise. It's no wonder the U.S. was so reluctant to release them. Of course, the details were really already known, but ...
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