HONG KONG – Beijing’s leaders could afford a wry smile when they heard that a political activist best known for burning the Chinese flag in public and carrying a coffin through the streets to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre had been elected a Hong Kong legislator. The surprise victory of "Long Hair" Leung Kwok …
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UNITED NATIONS – The escalating violence in Iraq – with over 50 civilians killed in Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in Baghdad – is dissuading the United Nations from going back to the war-ravaged country, according to a senior UN official. Briefing the Security Council for the first time since his appointment last month as the UN’s …
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“F*cking crazies” – that’s how Colin Powell described the neoconservatives to Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw during the run-up to the Iraq war, according to The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency, by BBC broadcaster James Naughtie, due to be released this week in the U.S. To which one can only add: you got …
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Don’t Call it a WallI notice you don’t condemn the barrier Saudi Arabia has built along its border with Yemen! What about India’s wall, to keep Kashmiri terrorists out? And good news for the rest of you liberal nitwits – the EU is ALSO going to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out – …
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It is time for unauthorized truth-telling. Citizens cannot make informed choices if they do not have the facts – for example, the facts that have been wrongly concealed about the ongoing war in Iraq: the real reasons behind it, the prospective costs in blood and treasure, and the setback it has dealt to efforts to …
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This week’s debate on a draft UN Security Council resolution submitted by the United States last Thursday that, if passed, would increase pressure on the government of Sudan to stop violence in Darfur that has killed at least 50,000 people since last year, is shaping up as a major test of U.S. influence in the …
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The death toll in Iraq has now exceeded 1,000 U.S. soldiers, more than 640 of whom are combat casualties after President Bush declared “mission accomplished” aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. Casualties in war are inevitable. And the American public is willing to tolerate such casualties if our troops are …
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Law professor Elaine Cassel speaks with Scott Horton about the Bush/Ashcroft assault on American civil liberties. Interview conducted Sept. 4, 2004. Check out Scott’s other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities. Listen to Streaming Audio Download MP3 Elaine Cassel writes for FindLaw and the blog Civil Liberties Watch. She teaches at Concord University School …
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The practice of profiling by race, religion, and national origin on the part of U.S. law-enforcement agencies not only violates the human rights of its targets, but is also often counterproductive, according to a new report released here Monday by Amnesty International. Heralding a public campaign against profiling, the 50-page report, "Threat and Humiliation," charges …
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