Stories from 2003-06-27
"A surreal society has emerged at the tip of Cuba in which rules are the only common language and prisoners and guards alike feel marooned." [more]
"An Iraqi scientist who has provided what the White House yesterday called key components and blueprints for an illicit nuclear program was initially ignored by the Pentagon and jailed by U.S. military forces in Baghdad as he tried to get the materials into American hands." [more]
"Governments that abuse their own citizens, or allow corporations to abuse their citizens, promote environments conducive to terrorism. Far from undermining our security, then, the U.S. legal system's ability to enforce basic human rights standards has the potential to ward off terrorism by bringing to justice the malicious despots that create the illiberal conditions in which terrorism thrives." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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