The unholy alliance
Should political extremes ever join forces? Twenty-eight years ago, almost to the day, Mayor William H Hudnut (the third) of Indianapolis signed into law the Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance. Had it not been struck down by the courts, it would have defined certain kinds of pornography as a civil rights violation against women. This was [...]
Bahrain’s King Hamad and Swaziland’s King Mswati III among those having a Jubilee lunch with the Queen… In act that’s likely to be seen as an affront to those fighting for democracy in countries around the world, the Queen will today sit down with bloody dictators to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee at a [...]
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Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President hits out bias of international law… Following his conviction for war crimes at a UN-backed Special Court, Charles Taylor -addressing the court- singled out the United States as he suggested that not everyone is subject to international law: President George W. Bush not too long ago [...]
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Francois Hollande has promised a new economic direction in France, but he’ll struggle to bring about radical change in Europe… President François Hollande’s call for a new growth-led approach has resonated with many people across Europe who continue to suffer from a seemingly endless cycle of economic decline and painful public sector cuts. Nobel prize-winning [...]
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Celebrating a Taliban retreat in Afghanistan can be a dangerous thing to do… Writing in The Independent, Kim Sengupta reveals how a trip to celebrate the Taliban’s retreat in Ghazni province, in fact just demonstrated the blurred and inconclusive nature of the whole Afghan war: The mortar rounds came in from the hills, [...]
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Is Europe’s problem German strength or weakness? The election in March 2012 of Joachim Gauck as Germany’s President demonstrates a remarkable achievement of recent German history. For the first time since unification in October 1990, Germany has a Chancellor and President from the former East Germany. Widely admired both for the size of its [...]
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Notorious torture prison in use a year after government said it was shut down… Iraq’s government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad’s Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government officials. The government had claimed [...]
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Time may be running out for millions of ‘food insecure’ people in Africa’s Sahel region… Whilst the threat of war in Sudan is making headlines worldwide at the moment, it is important to remember the other major crisis that has seen little coverage in the mainstream media: The food crisis in West Africa’s [...]
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