Since even the US Supreme Court has declined to hold police accountable for enforcing restraining orders, one extreme case of officers “shirking” the duty is headed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.Jan 5 - No one denied that the murder of the three little girls by their father was a tragedy, but a dispute over whether the government shared responsibility for … [Read more...] about International Suit Filed Against Cops for Ignoring Mom’s Pleas
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Understanding the Anti-WTO Protests (from Japan Focus)
From APEC to WTO: trajectories of protest in Korea and East AsiaBy Jamie Doucette and Owen MillerAngry protests in Busan, South Korea during an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference there in November have alarmed Hong Kong police preparing for a mid-December World Trade Organization ministerial conference. Hong Kong police fear that the some of the groups … [Read more...] about Understanding the Anti-WTO Protests (from Japan Focus)
WTO meeting in Hong Kong: Our World is not for sale!
by Vandana ShivaThe WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say in outcomes of WTO negotiations. With the backing of peoples power on the streets they walked out of the Seattle and Cancun ministerial, exercising the highest power in democracy, the power to say … [Read more...] about WTO meeting in Hong Kong: Our World is not for sale!
Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel: the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
by George MonbiotOver the past two years I have made an uncomfortable discovery. Like most environmentalists, I have been as blind to the constraints affecting our energy supply as my opponents have been to climate change. I now realise that I have entertained a belief in magic.In 2003, the biologist Jeffrey Dukes calculated that the fossil fuels we burn in one year were … [Read more...] about Worse Than Fossil Fuel: Biodiesel: the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth
Robert Fisk on journalism, war, terror, good/evil and “democracy.. delivered by tanks & helicopters”
Robert Fisk is one of the world's best known journalists. He has been based in the Middle East as the UK Independent's Middle East correspondent for nearly 30 years, during which he has reported on two U.S. wars in Iraq, two Afghan wars, the Israel/Palestine conflict, Israel's invasion of Lebanon, the civil war in the former Yugoslavia.His new book, The Great War for … [Read more...] about Robert Fisk on journalism, war, terror, good/evil and “democracy.. delivered by tanks & helicopters”