Tag: international
group name: politicsjustice
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November 29, 2009 06:00 PM EST --
As the world ramps up to the United Nations' summit in Copenhagen, climate science experts such as the summit's scheduled keynote speaker Dr. Rajendra Pachauri continue to bang the drum of strict policies . . .
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November 30, 2009 05:42 PM EST --
As President Barack Obama sets his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan into motion, another problem in that country is going largely ignored. The United Nations reported today that rape in Afghanistan . . .
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November 30, 2009 09:39 AM EST --
No, a "Copenhagen Diagnosis" is not a newly discovered Nordic medical condition or a reference to the above-average (or below-average) judgment of Scandinavian doctors. It is the name of a new report . . .
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April 08, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
A few collegues and I are live blogging over at Iraq Insider about the Patraeus/Crocker hearings. Check it out. Here's one from a few hours ago...
Sen. John Warner, R-Va., just took the stage . . .
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May 08, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
These are my own personal predictions so far. Please feel free to add your own predictions of what might be in the letter!
VERSION NO.1
Dear George:
Kindly ship over all of your nukes to the Persian . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
I wrote this book because I wanted to share with people, using my own experiences, how children are drawn into brutal wars, how communities and societies collapse during . . .
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April 21, 2006 05:16 PM EDT --
I was rather amused today when I received an email, containing the following MUST SEE link about Iran. http://www.irandefence.net/showthread.php?t=32
The first photo states: "This is . . .
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August 03, 2007 03:39 AM EDT --
Modern wars, undeniably, are wars against children.
First there is the invasion; next the occupation, the resistance, the endless conflict. There is also the world that war leaves behind, one . . .
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July 03, 2006 06:46 PM EDT --
Here is the direct link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html
UPDATE: This is the link to the web site set up to provide background information, as well as updates with Malak's . . .
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May 10, 2006 09:45 PM EDT --
Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America
For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the international arena -- which are being . . .
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August 13, 2006 02:44 AM EDT --
In a new report on the use of the death penalty, Amnesty International has revealed that there are over 20,000 people on death row across the world waiting to be killed by their own governments.
In its . . .
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July 31, 2008 08:28 PM EDT --
The Chinese government has banned the Amnesty International Website, even for journalists covering the Olympic Games.
According to Executive Director Larry Cox, "... we've learned that a . . .
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April 22, 2006 09:58 PM EDT --
Today, I received yet another email from yet another person overwhelmed by the atrocities to which Nazanin has been subjected. This courageous and caring person has created a website . . .
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May 12, 2006 09:33 AM EDT --
Dear President Ahmadinejad,
Thank you very much for your lengthy letter. For the sake of argument lets say that everything you say is committed the crimes in which you have mentioned. My question to you, . . .
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April 26, 2006 02:20 PM EDT --
This is the English translation of the court transcript, originally published in Etemaad, a state-backed publication in Iran. Aside from highlighting the atrocities to which women and girls are subjected . . .
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October 22, 2006 03:56 PM EDT --
Last week, the Department of Defense released the obituaries of 30 military personnel killed in Iraq, ranging in age from 19 to 48, and one 21-year old soldier killed in Afghanistan.
As of Friday, 10/20, . . .
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June 06, 2006 11:38 AM EDT --
Iran is one of the world's worst offenders in allowing women to be sold into the sex trade, the United States said on Monday in a rebuke that may cloud US efforts to negotiate over Tehran's . . .
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March 28, 2007 10:07 PM EDT --
I've been TRYING to practice brevity in my articles, knowing that most of us lead busy lives and may tend toward a short attention span -- and who's to say that longer is better . . .
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March 26, 2007 02:51 AM EDT --
The development of the international trading and monetary systems since World War II began with the inception of the Bretton Woods Monetary System known as the Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO). . . .
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August 07, 2007 03:51 PM EDT --
I truly wanted to write on Iraq today until I found another powerful article from Chris Hedges, this one on the war in Iraq and the implications of America's disasterous foreign policy. Hedges summarizes . . .
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