Trillions for War, Prisons, & Wall St. Bailout = No Progress
Millennium Goals, Global Poverty and the Peace Dividend - Turning Swords into Ploughshares
"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview
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"they finally admitted there was a 100% core melt"
An Ecological Assessment of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
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Can a state “object” to a rule of customary intl.law?
International Law in the Contemporary World Arena
- Submitted by: David Marshall
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The Hit on Gaddafi - State-sponsored Terror
in Libya - Questions on Number of Civilians Killed
- Submitted by: Tech Streets
The end of 2011 saw the death of Vaclav Havel, one of the leading figures of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Cold War. Havel wrote: “We have become morally ill because we are used to saying one thing and thinking another... We have learned not to believe in anything, not to care about each other... Love, friendship, mercy, humility, or forgiveness have lost their depths and dimension... They represent some sort of psychological curiosity, or they appear as long-lost wanderers from faraway times.”
A poet, philosopher, and writer of theater performances, Havel was an advocate of freedom as guaranteed in human rights accords to the Czech and Slovak people but were denied by ruling bureaucracies. Millions of Czechs and Slovaks took to the streets in Prague to overthrow the leadership of the country and institute a new age of openness and democracy in government institutions. Havel's work included numerous theater performances highlighting the absurdity of power and authority in the practice of legal government: "One of Havel's least-known works, a collage of radio clips called, 'Czech Lands, My Beautiful Czech Lands', was written after the 1968 invasion. By juxtaposing politicians' speeches, music, cheering crowds and the banal sounds of humanity, Havel shows how political rhetoric has deprived words of their meaning."
''In his 1965 play, “The Memorandum,” an official tries to comply with a decree ordering the use of a new “scientific” language called Ptydepe — with the result that no one understands anything. In 1968, he wrote “The Increased Difficulty of Concentration,” a bedroom farce that made the point that the human heart cannot be understood by computers. After being staged in New York, “The Garden Party” and “The Memorandum” won Obie awards in 1968 and 1970. Mr. Havel's other major works included 1984's “Largo Desolato,” about someone accused of “intellectual disturbance of the peace,” “Temptation,” a version of the Faust tale, and three one-act plays about the struggle between conscience and conformity in the face of oppression: “Interview,” “A Private View” and “Protest.”''
+ Washington Post - Vaclav Havel
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Storm of British Embassy in Tehran, Iran: 11/29/2011
Prospects of a Future Revolution in Iran
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The UN: enforcement of human rights standards
Is International Law really "Law"?
- Submitted by: Raymond Schach
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The Terror of Bin Laden & his Pakistani VCD Collection
U.S. Justifies Israeli Military Policy in International Law
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Australian Drug Policy - Reform in the Criminal Justice System - Submitted by: Nicole Briggs The policy of the criminal justice system related to the use and distribution of illicit drugs in society has traditionally been one of prohibition, similar to past historical attempts to ban alcohol on moral grounds through temperance campaigns, with subsequent consequences in the rise of violence associated with the black market. The economic forces related to illicit drug prohibition increases the market price of these substances by forcing the trade underground, reducing supply, and increasing the amount of risk associated with distribution. The unregulated cash... |
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The Essence of Decision - Crisis Situations & Government Reactions via Leadership - Submitted by: Thomas Evers 1: In “The Essence of Decision” by Graham Allison, the author discusses the rational actor model to analyze John F. Kennedy’s decisions in the Cuban Missile Crisis and how they related to the Soviet government led by Nikita Khrushchev. In viewing the State as a “rational actor” in this theory, foreign policy is created and enacted as it best serves the interests of the nation, a definition that may change depending on which administration is in power. Allison suggests that using this model may be too... |
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Nuclear Reactants and Products - The reactions that take place in a nuclear generator - Submitted by: Thomas Evers In order to review the chemical reactions that take place in a nuclear generator, it is important to understand the differences between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, as well as the different designs of current fission reactors based on Uranium and Plutonium. Nuclear fusion is still a process that remains unconquered by science and subject to investigation, while nuclear fission reactions based on Uranium and Plutonium are the source of all nuclear power plant electricity generation and civilian use of nuclear power. |
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India Military Modernized With China In Mind
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"The drive to modernize Indian forces was long overdue as much of the equipment was obselete Soviet-era weapons, and the orders for fighter jets, naval frigates, helicopters and armaments have made India the world's largest importer of arms. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said India accounted for 9 percent of all the world's weapon imports in 2010, the latest year for which figures were available."
RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
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'The holding facility appears effectively to have been a secret prison – a so-called black site. It is entirely possible, according to international law experts, that taking prisoners to H1 could amount to "unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement", and that the prisoners were subjected to "enforced disappearances", both of which are war crimes under the Rome statute of the international criminal court.'
At Davos, Why Is No One Talking About the Poor?
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'I was somewhere between Amartya’s Sen‘s 1999 Nobel Prize-winning book "Development as Freedom," a cult sensation among wonky Ivy Leaguers and 20-something granolas bound for the Peace Corps, and Joseph Stiglitz‘s 2002 bestseller "Globalization and Its Discontents," when I first dreamed of going to Davos to take part in the lofty mission of “solving the world’s problems.”'
Pentagon 'prepared': US set for Operation Iranian Freedom?
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"The US says it will attack Iran if it tries to block the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial route for regional oil transit. Tehran has threatened to stop traffic through the Strait in response to mounting pressure, including threats, sanctions and particularly an air strike on its nuclear facilities, which Israel and the US say are on the table. The US Navy has two aircraft carrier strike groups in the region at the moment, presumably performing a routine rotation."
The Anti-Putin Movement: An Interview with the Blogger in Chief
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"We need to use new technologies, first of all the Internet, for the practical functions of the party, like a reconstituted Facebook. Many people call it Democracy 2.0. I'm a lobbyist and fanatic of this system. It should allow people to register online and verify their identities through a bank card or by some other means, and then let them take part in [the party's] decisionmaking, voting and so on."
Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
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"British sources agree Qatar played a leading role - and accept it put more soldiers in than the UK - but question whether the number was this large. Around the more secret parts of Whitehall, the suggestion is that the number committed on the ground by all nations probably did not exceed a couple of hundred... It is part of the essence of troops of this kind that they often operate in secrecy, providing their political masters with policy options that they might not wish to own up to publicly."
The wars you least want come to you
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"In military terms, the 'vision' is now of warfare as a computer game. As for Bosnia, or Libya, or Abbottabad, we keep the assets to attack from the skies. We can rectify imbalances on the ground by pushing a few buttons. From the Oval Office, the president may decide who needs killing this morning, and be back on the golf links in the afternoon."