Game of drones: Subverting the laws of war
CIA should transfer drone strikes to military control says rights group… Remarks by a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official suggesting the agency is not legally bound by the laws of war underscore the urgent need for the Obama administration to transfer command of all aerial drone strikes to the armed forces, Human [...]
The once illegal and secretive brotherhood is courting the West as power looms in Egypt… The Muslim Brotherhood has recently given approval to a $3.2bn loan from the IMF, despite deep misgivings about dealing with the organisation. The Brotherhood spent 80 years as an underground organisation, with many of its leaders spending time in [...]
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Government of the people, by the lobby groups, for the corporations… European officials probably thought that no-one would take much notice when they signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a controversial international treaty on intellectual property rights. Two months later, mass protests have erupted in cities all across Europe against the treaty, amid criticisms about [...]
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Why does the America lock up so many people? The incarcerated population of America is large enough to make it the country’s unofficial second largest city. In 1980, 220 people per 100,000 of the population was in jail, by 2010 that number has risen to 731 More than half of all black men [...]
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The United States needs to reassess its use of unmanned drones… The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. unmanned aerial drone strike inYemen on May 25, 2010, hit the wrong target. The United States thought that it was striking at Al-Qaeda. Instead, the strike killed one of the political enemies of Yemen’s [...]
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The United States will likely be the World’s superpower for years to come… The USA is currently the world’s stand alone superpower, but as the curtains very gradually came down on the 9/11 decade, the trend within sections of the media, as well as among economists and political commentators has been to pre-emptively [...]
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Is the US-Israeli relationship ultimately harmful for both countries? As the possibility of armed confrontation in the Middle East again rears its head, so too do questions concerning the nature of power relations in the region. As speculation mounts over Israel’s supposed intention of launching strategic strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities following the [...]
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