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Insurgent Ideas: Cops Watch Conference |
by pattrice jones
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16 May 2004
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Federal, state, and private security forces converged to police not actions but ideas at the Student Animal Rights Organization (SARO) conference on animal liberation, which included the first ever academic symposium on the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The conference featured analyses from feminist, anti-racist, radical environmentalist, and animal liberationist activists and scholars. |
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BTL:Former Counsel to President Richard Nixon Declares that Misconduct in... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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16 May 2004
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...Bush White House is 'Worse than Watergate' * Interview with John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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Review :: Government Secrecy |
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Rumsfeld 'gave secret OK' to murder & torture in Iraq, now Rumsfeld apologises |
by Seymour Hersh
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15 May 2004
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Washington - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a secret programme that encouraged interrogation methods used at Abu Ghraib prison, where Iraqi prisoners were abused, The New Yorker magazine said on Saturday. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Latin America : Prisons : Regime |
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Who Let the Dogs Out?: Torture, the CIA and the Press |
by Douglas Valentine
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15 May 2004
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"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Regime |
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US Pushes World Court Immunity Amid Iraq Scandal |
by Carol Giacomo
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15 May 2004
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Some legal experts disagree with the use of Article 98 agreements and question government insistence that U.S. military interrogation rules in Iraq and elsewhere comply with the Geneva Convention.
Washington "is reluctant to test its interpretation" before international jurists, Dworkin said. |
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BTL:Human Rights Abuses in U.S.-Run Iraq and Afghan Prisons are... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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15 May 2004
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...Widespread and Systemic * Interview with Carroll Bogert, associate director, Human Rights Watch, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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News :: Prisons |
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Prisoner ‘tortured to death’ |
by Ptycotosa Valahermosa
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14 May 2004
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FREEDOM, AT LAST: An Iraqi hugging his two sons who were released from the Abu Ghraib prison yesterday in Baquba, 60km northeast of Baghdad. — AFP |
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Rewilding America: The Froggy Love-Tunnel Vision Quest |
by Chip Ward
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14 May 2004
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Between the cities and the chain of connected reserves, are buffer zones of family farms, wind farms, solar farms, retreats, spas, and green belts that are also outdoor recreational hotspots. After the obesity epidemic led to a mid-century diabetes die-off and we realized that excessive television and Internet surfing caused early senility and paranoia, more people headed for the outdoors. Now that carbon emissions have been cut drastically and the weather is moderating, the land between city and reserve is being redesigned to accommodate both people and critters in ways that can be sustained. |
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