Assange talking to Occupy LSX. (photo: Matthew Taylor) Assange Fate to Be Determined Next Week UK Supreme Court to announce May 30 if Assange is to be extradicted to Sweden – Common Dreams staff link http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/23-1 Julian Assange will find out next Wednesday whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face sex crime [...]
undemocratic, brutal or catatonic countries of the world, do the following: Unexceptionalism: A Primer by E.L. Doctorow To achieve unexceptionalism, the political ideal that would render the United States indistinguishable from the impoverished, traditionally PHASE ONE If you’re a justice of the Supreme Court, ignore the first sacrament of a democracy and suspend the [...]
PM Gilani, right, could be disqualified from holding public office, forcing early elections [EPA] Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Pakistani prime minister, has been convicted by the country’s Supreme Court of having committed contempt of court in a case that could see him thrown out of office. Gilani was sentenced to be detained in the court until the [...]
The War on Women in the Courts by Marge Baker In 2007, five men on the Supreme Court told Lilly Ledbetter that she was out of luck. Ledbetter, after two decades working as the only female supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant in Alabama, had sued her employer for wage discrimination–she had discovered that for [...]
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court may deny victims abroad recourse against corporate-sanctioned abuse. by Ka Hsaw Wa Among the thousands of interviews I’ve conducted as a human rights investigator over the last 24 years, one of the most difficult was in 1996, outside a refugee camp along the Thai-Burma border. I was no [...]
A Palestinian girl holds a flag and an olive branch as Israeli border police officers stand near their vehicle at a West Bank protest. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel‘s top court has upheld a law denying citizenship to Palestinians married to Israelis, with one judge saying it helped the state to fend off national [...]
Money has been at the centre of US politics for decades. Candidate Barack Obama raised $750mn to help him get elected as president. That went down as the most expensive federal election in history - but this year it is due to get even more expensive. “We have a corrupt system where government is responsive to [...]
http://warisacrime.org/content/corporate-personhood-worse-ending-it-easier-you-think Corporate Personhood Worse, Ending It Easier, Than You Think By David Swanson Don’t take it from me. Take it from the book being published today that will mainstream the movement to end corporate personhood: “Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You [...]
Julian Assange‘s appeal against his extradition will be heard by the supreme court on 1 February. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP The highest court in the land has granted permission for Julian Assangeto appeal against his extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime allegations. The supreme court said it would hear the appeal because the WikiLeaks founder’s case raised a [...]
The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You Story The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You has been updated. By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey [...]
The Untouchables Elite immunity in the age of imperialism by Justin Raimondo, December 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by Steven Howards, a Colorado man arrested by Secret Service agents when he confronted then-Vice President Dick Cheney at a shopping mall and told him he [...]
Detained Colorado Mall-Goer Told Dick Cheney Iraq War Was ‘Disgusting’ by Jason Ditz, December 05, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Publicly criticizing the Iraq War has been the pretext for a lot of flimsy government actions, but does hearing someone publicly criticize the occupation [...]
Julian Assange can take extradition case to supreme court, judges rule High court says Assange case raises question of ‘general public importance’ that should be decided as quickly as possible There is a video available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/05/julian-assange-extradition-supreme-court1 The high court has paved the way for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to pursue his [...]
Julian Assange. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters WikiLeaks‘ founder Julian Assange will make one further attempt to avertextradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over alleged sex crimes, when he asks judges on Monday to refer his case to Britain’s highest court. Swedish authorities want to question the Australian founder of the whistle-blowing website over accusations of rape [...]
Here in Australia our slavish and sycophantic adoration of US world policies mean in the long run that we just as much as those in the US government who were responsible, believe just as passionately in torture as they do. It is a vicious circle that must be broken. The [...]
By Uri Avnery ‘You and your Weimar!’ a friend of mine once exclaimed in exasperation, ‘just because you experienced the collapse of the Weimar Republic as a child, you see Weimar behind every corner.’ The accusation was not unjustified. In 1960, during the Eichmann trial, I wrote a book about the [...]
Is Canada’s Attorney General Illiterate? by Neil Kitson, November 14, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Supreme Court of Canada Case Information Docket 34357: Attorney General of Canada on behalf of the United States of America v. Abdullah Khadr Nov. 3, 2011: Decision on the application for leave to appeal, Bi De Ro. [...]
It was always going to be a difficult appeal to win but unfortunately Assange has lost. There are still some avenues open in the UK. The loss shows the real nature of the law becoming the law of the law of the rulers and a provider of a safe haven for the [...]
American Political Passivity, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Building a Base By Bruce E. Levine http://warisacrime.org/content/american-political-passivity-anti-authoritarianism-and-building-base Remarks delivered at http://MIC50.org conference. I want to begin by explaining how a clinical psychologist ends up giving the final talk at a conference on the military-industrial complex. Actually, for many years now, I’ve been writing and speaking about—and fighting against—another industrial complex, [...]
Wars are very easy to start and continue as long as you have the troops and the mindless support of party politicians and a totally propagandised public. Here in Australia we are perhaps the best of the you lead and we will Folsom mentality when it comes to war. In the past it was usually the UK who we followed almost [...]
