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[indymedia.us main newswire] indymedia.us :: We must hold the torture state accountable: On the plane to the island, the U.S. prison “advisor” told the congressional delegation that the prison resembled “a Boy Scout Recreational Camp.” He ironically referred to it as the “the largest prison in the Free World.” He had hoped to put on a show for the visitors, but the congressional investigators, using a map provided by a former Con Son prisoner, actually discovered a “hidden” prison on the island.

[Johnblakey's Weblog] The mean streets of Leeds « Johnblakey's Weblog: intervention in Iraq, the WMD being linked by Tony Blair and Colin Powell to the “ricin plot”.) There was the plot to bomb Old Trafford in 2004, the evidence apparently being two ticket stubs for different parts of the ground, in the hands of fans of foreign origin. Then in February this year there were the high-profile arrests and detentions in the north-west under anti-terrorism laws of nine men on unspecified overseas intelligence linked to a supposed terrorist activities outside Britain.

[TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog] Iranian Prisoners: - reminding the Iranian authorities that the UN Human Rights Committee (in the case of Toonen v Australia) has made clear that treating adultery and fornication as criminal offences does not comply with international human rights standards. Therefore the sentence of execution by stoning for adultery breaches Iran's commitment under article 6(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that death sentences will be imposed "only for the most serious crimes";

[Firedoglake] Firedoglake » McCain Doubles Down On “100 Years In Iraq” Pledge: This illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq is going to be like a giant anvil around McCain's leathery neck as the November elections draw nearer”¦he's going down, and he'll drag a lot of the Congressmen and women with him”¦ The billions spent and the horror and degredation .I haven't seen the surrounding Arab states take a scintilla of responsibility for Iraq.

[All Things Beautiful] All Things Beautiful: "Today You Die" - Maintaining Family Honor: But, now, like the Sharia court in London's Islamic community said: she is guilty of "deliberately and maliciously bearing false witness against religious sentiment and of willing treason against her Arab Muslim father's people and against her nation, the Sudan."

[John Quiggin] Found not guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment ? at John Quiggin: It should not be the situation that Hicks put himself in that dents your national pride. But the fact that Australia is an active combatant in the war on terror and that habeaus corpus has become a disposbale commodity here in Australia, that’s got nothing to do with Hicks - that’s the politics of fear as practised in Australia.

[World Prout Assembly] World Prout Assembly: Imperial Rulers and the Deadly Games They ...: If India builds a society for only Indians, Pakistan for only Pakistanis, and England for only the English, then these three separate societies will exist, but we cannot look upon them as the society of humanity. Because humanity is divided into groups, one society will naturally try to thrive by exploiting the vitality of others.

[Grotian Moment] Grotian Moment: The International War Crimes Trial Blog | Ten ...: Cox Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosted an international conference and experts meeting titled “Lessons from the Saddam Trial.” The meeting was co-sponsored by the International Bar Association and the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and was designated a Centennial Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law, a Regional Conference of the International Law Association (American Branch), and the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Penal Law (American National Section). In addition to a number of leading academics, the two dozen expert participants included the Ambassador of Iraq to the United States, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, the Executive Director of the International Bar Association, the former Director of the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, the Deputy Director of the State Department Office for War Crimes Issues, a human rights observer who attended the Dujail trial, an advisor to Saddam Hussein’s defense team, the former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the legal advisor to the Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the former Principal Public Defender of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the former Chair of the Drafting Committee for the International Criminal Court.

[Populist Party Blog] Imperial Rulers and the Deadly Games They Play: If humanity is to experience a semblance of peace in the Middle East, the United States needs to withdraw its troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, close its permanent military bases in the region, pay reparations to Iraq and Afghanistan (with no strings attached), and end its support of autocratic states like Egypt.

[Whedonesque | a weblog about Joss Whedon] Whedonesque : Comments on 13271 : Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To ...: Women’s inferiority – in fact, their malevolence -- is as ingrained in American popular culture as it is anywhere they’re sporting burkhas. I find it in movies, I hear it in the jokes of colleagues, I see it plastered on billboards, and not just the ones for horror movies.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: not since the days of Richard Nixon and "all the president's men" have we seen the kind of arrogance displayed by George Bush and his administration…sadly, though, because our system is designed as it is, we will, after all the shouting and outrage subside, have only one option: to wait patiently for the end of this man's term and rejoice when we see him get on the taxpayer funded jet that will take him and his pitiful excuse of a legacy back to Texas…if there is a lesson to be learned from all of this, perhaps it might be that we, as Americans, need to stop talking about holding our elected officials accountable and actually doing it…because as long as we allow the kind of arrogance and disregard for the will of the people exhibited by George Bush and Dick Cheney, we will get what we deserve…every…single….time…..

[SWJ Blog] Waterboarding is Torture”¦ Period (Links Updated # 9) (SWJ Blog): I would never say that unethical action can be morally justified by circumstance. Instead, I am saying that most (all?) physical acts are amoral per se, and that judging their ethical status requires one to understand a greater context beyond the physical act itself, including, but not limited to the intent of the actor, the actor's willingness to subjugate his moral judgment to reason and conscience, the prudence of the actor in taking actions that include the application of force, the ability of the actor to meet the preceding criteria, and so on.

[In the Field] In the Field: Hear from CNN reporters across the globe Blog ...: in each subsequent nation that the Olympic torch passes through to show up en-masse in embassy provided t-shirts, carrying embassy provided banners, screaming out of embassy provided megaphones, and chanting and singing embassy provided lyrics and speeches - these poor souls - who if they do not do as they are directed - will likely have their Visas immediately cut off - not to mention whatever sanctions will be imposed by the Government of the People’s Republic of China on them and their family and friends whether they return or especially if they ask for political asylum.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - Justin Webb's America: The Bush Conundrum: What I hope we will look at is (and here acknowledge only raising my questions)--HOW is it POSSIBLE, with all the deceit and immorality of the invasion and war upon Iraq (the death, the maiming the destruction of infrastructure, a society, and national and world historical and art treasures and architecture, the environmental damage), the inconsistancies, and unfairness (i.e., downright disregard for, and disrespect for fellow citizens and immigrants) in the handling of military tours and veterens affairs, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT OUR SYSTEM FAILED US--How is it possible that hundreds of congresspersons and millions of Americans and millions of demonstrators around the world COULD NOT STOP THESE TWO?

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