The ’Long War’ fallacy |
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-bacev
ich13-2008may13,0,2209997.story?track=rssFrom the Los Angeles TimesIraq has shown the limits of U.S. power. We must change America, not the ...
Posted by Sandrine on Sun, 18 May 2008 05:53:00 PST |
Getting Away With Torture |
JURISPRUDENCEThe failures of the legal system for both the torturers and the tortured.By Dahlia LithwickPosted Monday, April 28, 2008, at 10:41 AM ETIt's pretty much a given that our "terror trials" a...
Posted by Sandrine on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:26:00 PST |
Meet the super-rich, the dysfunctional class threatening American Values |
Rich Men Behaving BadlyBy Daniel GrossPosted Saturday, March 29, 2008, at 7:08 AM ETMaybe the rich aren’t so different from you and meFor decades, social scientists, policy wonks, and politician...
Posted by Sandrine on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:53:00 PST |
Boycottons les Jeux de la honte d’un État liberticide ! |
28/03/2008Par Jacques Ardoino, Jean-Marie Brohm, Claude Javeau, Fabien Ollier, Marc Perelman, Robert Redeker et Pierre-André Taguieff, respectivement professeur émérite en sciences de l’éducatio...
Posted by Sandrine on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:26:00 PST |
Torture in Our Own Backyards: The Fight Against Supermax Prisons |
By Jessica Pupovac, AlterNetPosted on March 24, 2008, Imagine living in an 8-by-12 prison cell, in solitary confinement, for eight years straight. Your entire world consists of a dank, cinder block ro...
Posted by Sandrine on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:12:00 PST |
9/11 Trial: Don’t Expect Another Nuremberg |
Feb. 12, 2008(CBS) Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and CBSNews.com.The Pentagon announced Monday - 2,345 days after September 11, 2001 -that it would finally seek to bring to ...
Posted by Sandrine on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:07:00 PST |
Why Jose Padilla’s 17-Year Sentence Should Disgust all Americans |
By Andy Worthington, AlterNetPosted on January 22, 2008, Printed on January 22, 2008http://www.alternet.org/story/74590/The news that US citizen Jose Padilla has received a prison sentence of 17 years...
Posted by Sandrine on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:52:00 PST |
Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse Against Incarcerated Women |
By Nicole Summer, RH Reality CheckPosted on January 15, 2008, Printed on January 15, 2008http://www.alternet.org/story/73784/"I am 7 months pregnant [and] I got pregnant here during a sexual assault. ...
Posted by Sandrine on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:03:00 PST |
Six Years of Guantánamo, Enough is Enough |
January 11, 2008By ANDY WORTHINGTONThe Bush administration has maintained a low profile over the last month, as waves of indignation over the destruction of CIA videotapes showing the torture of two "...
Posted by Sandrine on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST |
In the US, the slaughter goes on without debate |
ANNE JOHNSTONEJanuary 10 2008"The gallows is not only a machine of death but a symbol. It is the symbol of terror, cruelty and irreverence for life, the common denominator of primitive savagery, medie...
Posted by Sandrine on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:48:00 PST |
