As an 18-year Air Force veteran with four combat tours, I can tell you a little about military culture and how dissenters are treated – as pariahs. Ironic considering that the U.S. Air Force was started by a dissenter, General Billy Mitchell, who sacrificed his career to stand up for his...
Archive for January, 2010
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Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: international law, interrogation, Iraq, Matthew Alexander, Muslims, torture, US military
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Howard Zinn lifted up the critical role of dissent in forming and advancing our democracy and justice and dignity for all people.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bill Vandenberg, Howard Zinn
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Throughout Southeast Asia, men and women who are caught using drugs are locked away in so-called rehabilitation centers where they are routinely tortured.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Cambodia, China, Daniel Wolfe, drug policy, human rights, torture
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As I sift through the ruins of my home, I have hope. I am more convinced than ever that we should put the country back together not as it was but as it should be.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: Haiti, Michèle Pierre-Louis
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The disastrous U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Citizens United case could also become a call to arms for all who feel that big business dominance of U.S. democracy must stop.
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Obama should be driving home the message again and again: fighting climate change is in the economic interest of the vast majority of American workers and businesses.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: climate crisis, economic crisis, Mark Hertsgaard
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Much unease about the International Criminal Court boils down to one issue: how should its prosecutor decide, among thousands of crimes and perpetrators within his jurisdiction, which ones to charge? Prosecutorial discretion is a common method of triage in overcrowded legal systems. But it is...
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This week on the public radio program This American Life, 2009 Soros Justice Fellow Nancy Mullane presents the story of Don Cronk, a man who has served 27 years of a sentence of "life with the possibility of parole" for first-degree murder in a California prison.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Karynn Fish, parole