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Wednesday November 4, 2009
Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • Islam • USA:
MILAN — An Italian judge says he has convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition, AP reports.
The American suspects — all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents — are being tried in absentia and are considered fugitives.
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Monday April 20, 2009
Human Rights Violations • USA:
The Americans Civil Liberties Union deserves credit for suing for the memos’ release. And President Obama deserves credit for overruling his own C.I.A. director and ordering that the memos be made public. It is hard to think of another case in which documents stamped “Top Secret” were released with hardly any deletions.But this cannot be the end of the scrutiny for these and other decisions by the Bush administration.
Until Americans and their leaders fully understand the rules the Bush administration concocted to justify such abuses — and who set the rules and who approved them — there is no hope of fixing a profoundly broken system of justice and ensuring that that these acts are never repeated.
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Monday March 16, 2009
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaeda captives “constituted torture,” a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA “black site” prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.” Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
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Tuesday December 9, 2008
USA:
Interviewer Cynthia McFadden asked Bush if the Bible was literally true.
“You know. Probably not. … No, I’m not a literalist…”
The president also said that he prays to the same God as those with different religious beliefs.
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Monday December 8, 2008
USA:
The Sunday service at Greater Grace Temple began with the Clark Sisters song “I’m Looking for a Miracle” and included a reading of this verse from the Book of Romans: “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”Pentecostal Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, who shared the sanctuary’s wide altar with three gleaming sport utility vehicles, closed his sermon by leading the choir and congregants in a boisterous rendition of the gospel singer Myrna Summers’s “We’re Gonna Make It” as hundreds of worshipers who work in the automotive industry — union assemblers, executives, car salesmen — gathered six deep around the altar to have their foreheads anointed with consecrated oil.
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Friday November 7, 2008
Islam • USA:
Elahi was confronted with what many local Muslims and residents of Arab descent say are increased searches and seizures of laptops at airports and border crossings without warrant or warning.Civil rights groups are challenging the tactic, as the Bush administration and citizens continue to grapple with the conflict between civil liberties and national security seven years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Friday September 12, 2008
Human Rights Violations • USA:
A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy.It shows not only are white evangelical Southerners more likely than the general populace to believe torture is sometimes or often justified, but also that they are far more likely—to tweak a phrase from Proverbs—to “lean on their own understanding” regarding the subject.
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Friday July 11, 2008
Human Right Violations • Islam • USA:
It is a mystery why the Department of Justice has not learned the lesson that terrorists are best tracked down through good police work brought to bear on specific illegal acts, rather than by vast fishing expeditions.
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Sunday July 6, 2008
Human Rights • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Legal experts from 95 countries have devised a way of measuring how well leaders, officials and judges are meeting the basic principles of law and human rights. That means the USA no longer has to pretend that it is the standard by which all other countries should be judged.
Also: not coincidentally, Robert Jay Lifton comments on America’s use of torture.
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Also: not coincidentally, Robert Jay Lifton comments on America’s use of torture.
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Tuesday July 1, 2008
Islam • USA:
”Many (native-born) Americans say what I say about the war,” El-Ganayni said. ”But when I say it, I become a traitor. I want to show that the laws apply to me the same as to any other citizen.”
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Wednesday March 12, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Ignoring America’s own plethora of human rights violations, the US State Department published its annual report grading other countries on their human rights records.
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Saturday March 8, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
“Torture. A word that in my lifetime I would never have guessed would be associated with the United States of America. Torture is wrong. Always.”
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Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
George Bush, who claims to be a Christian, lied when he said America does not torture.
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Friday February 15, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Further evidence that George Bush is a liar. He has claimed over and over again that America does not torture. But he won’t give us the practice.
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Friday February 8, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances.
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Wednesday February 6, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Now Mr. Hamad says he’ll sue the US government for compensation for those lost years – years where his family became impoverished and one daughter became sick and died. But he says it’s not just about the money. He wants the US to return to what it used to be, a beacon of freedom. [video]
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Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
CIA finally admits: America tortures prisoners.
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Wednesday January 9, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
In comments published last year, Agee defended his decision to expose the CIA: “It was a time in the 70s when the worst imaginable horrors were going on in Latin America. “Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador – they were military dictatorships with death squads, all with the backing of the CIA and the US government. That was what motivated me to name all the names and work with journalists who were interested in knowing just who the CIA were in their countries.”
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Tuesday January 8, 2008
Death Penalty • Human Rights Violations • Michael W. Ryan • USA:
“If there’s anyone that should die of the death penalty, it would be Michael Ryan,” Kelle said, “but I don’t feel that we have the right to say who should live or die.”
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Sunday December 30, 2007
Death Penalty • Human Right Violations • USA • West Memphis Three:
Nearly 15 years ago, the brutal murder of three Arkansas Cub Scouts in an alleged satanic rite sickened a nation and strengthened the hand of death penalty champions across the United States. Now the same ghastly crime may be the final nail in the coffin of capital punishment in an America that is manifesting a crisis of conscience over the morality of executions.
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Sunday December 16, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
New Jersey joins the civilized world: The New Jersey General Assembly approved a bill eliminating capital punishment on Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Jon S. Corzine to sign the measure as early as Monday.
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Sunday November 4, 2007
Human Rights Violations • Satanism • USA:
The case against the West Memphis Three appears to have been more about rushed police work and hyped-up paranoia over non-existent Satanism than evidence. The suspects were just unfortunate to be social outcasts and to like rock music.
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.
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Monday October 29, 2007
Islam • USA:
“Obviously, there was no malice involved but it has to be said that the USA system does not inspire confidence.”
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Thursday October 11, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
In an interview with CNN, former President Jimmy Carter said he believes that the United States has tortured detainee and that President Bush has authorized the abuse, which he said violates international laws.
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