Archive for the ‘International law and structures’ Category
Tuesday, May 11th, 2004
From Interworld Radio:Human rights groups are demanding the United States opens all its detention facilities across the world to independent scrutiny. The call is from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and follows the publication of pictures showing American soldiers abusing and humiliating prisoners in Iraq. The two groups say ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
What's the difference between the United States and Iraq under Hussein? According to George Bush, it's that the US investigates its trained torturers:"We're an open society. We're a society that is going to investigate, fully investigate, in this case, what took place in that prison," Bush said. "That stands in ...
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Tuesday, May 4th, 2004
My annoyance at Liberal individualism is peaking again these days. Last week it was liberals such as Al Franken, talking on the Daily Show I think, trying to reclaim the phrase 'I support the troops.' Now, of course, on one level the reclamation makes sense - if one is highlighting ...
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Saturday, May 1st, 2004
I had planned to post an item about U.S. soldiers' treatment of Iraqi prisoners, but events overtake me, and now there is also a report of ill-treatment of prisoners by British soldiers. Latest reports are casting doubt on the veracity of some of the photographs of British soldiers, but it ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2004
Journalists' complaints of fewer perks this time around notwithstanding, the Irish Presidency will cost about EUR90m for the six month period.
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2003
Reporters sans Frontiers will be running a pirate radio station for the duration of WSIS - the World Summit on the Information Society - from which it is banned (you can generate your own conspiracy theories here):"To ban an organisation defending press freedom from a summit focusing on the circulation ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2003
Despite some of the positive contributions of the EU I'm generally suspicious of its structures and processes. Partly for this reason the proposed EU constitution is becoming less and less attractive, and now another reason to oppose it:At a meeting in Naples (29 November) the three big countries agreed to ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2003
Alternet report from Miami:When a young white woman holding her fingers in a V-sign was shot point blank with a rubber bullet, the local ABC commentator said without the slightest evidence, "She took a rubber bullet in the stomach, she must have done something. You wanna play, you gotta pay."
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2003
From Interworld Radio:The United States has rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation after nearly 20 years away. Although the return will bring a welcome injection of money, members are worried that it will cause problems for a proposed convention on cultural diversity. The convention is designed to ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003
The Pew Center for People and the Press has a new report on the attitude of Americans to Iraq. According to them, Americans are increasingly open to the U.N. playing a major role in postwar Iraq, with about half (51%) saying the U.S. should give up some military control to ...
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