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Filed under: Fun With Blogs, Political

White House Gutted Human Rights Law

White House counsel Alberto Gonzales’s memo from January 2002 urged the Bush administration to make al Qaeda and Taliban detainees exempt from the Geneva Convention’s statutes on the proper and legal treatment of prisoners.

Filed under: Cultural, Human Rights, Political

Ratio of CEO Pay to Average Worker Pay

If you’re thinking that breaks to corporations and businesses are good for workers, check out the rising gap in pay. Where does profit go? Straight to the top. It’s not so much an issue that executives shouldn’t be getting a great income, but look at the job losses. Downsizing, reorganizations - people pulling the weight of three jobs or more. But instead of investing in “human capital,” they just grab and bail.

Filed under: Human Rights, Political

Correction! Yeah NY Times!

Sontag Regarding the Torture of Others

Filed under: Academia, Cultural, Political

Susan Sontag - Better than Ever

Be careful, dear Ms. Sontag. I worry for your safety. And you’re still my hero.

Filed under: Academia, Cultural, Personal, Political, Viral

Free Speech is American

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech

Filed under: Human Rights, Political

Bashing Kerry on criticism of the Patriot Act - What Grounds?

Bush expanded the powers of the “Patriot Act” by attaching the redefinition of ‘financial institution’ to the Intelligence Authorization Act. This is how public hearings and floor debates for the expansion of the Patriot Act were avoided. The Patriot Acts have made legal most of what was illegal for the Justice Department back in 1968.

Filed under: Cultural, Human Rights, Political
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