Category: human rights
Further to the points I wrote about in my previous post on the CIA torture memos, Mike Dunford of The Questionable Authority has previously raised another important issue: the complicity of medical professionals in CIA torture: Reading these memos, it's...
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Posted on: April 19, 2009 10:42 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: law
Contemplating the mindset that led to the CIA torture memos reminds me of an encounter I had at the Pentagon in September 2005.
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Posted on: April 19, 2009 10:04 AM, by Nick Anthis • 3 Comments •
Category: academia
After a rapid media outcry, the US and Israel have come together to reinstate the Fulbright Scholarships initially revoked from several students from Gaza due to Israel-imposed travel restrictions. From The New York Times: JERUSALEM -- The American State Department...
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Posted on: June 2, 2008 4:30 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: human rights
On one metric, at least, Israel appears worse that apartheid South Africa.
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Posted on: May 31, 2008 11:30 AM, by Nick Anthis • 13 Comments •
Category: academia
A shocking overreaction, marked in its absurdity, heavy-handedness, and counterproductivity
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Posted on: May 28, 2008 6:15 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Category: China
The intended purpose of the Zimbabwe arms delivery. Also, some tough prison sentences back home.
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Posted on: April 30, 2008 9:30 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: censorship
China blocks YouTube in response to Tibetan protest/riot footage just two days after Turkey blocked YouTube for a different reason.
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Posted on: March 17, 2008 6:57 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •