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Category Archives: International Law
Judicial Reform in France
Thursday, January 8, 2009
French President Nicholas Sarkosy wants to do away with Investigating Magistrates. This would end a 200-year legal tradition in France. Although the move gives lip service to the presumption of innocence, the practical result will be more power to the government and less justice for the people.
This important story has been discussed widely. [...]Israel: Suicide for Fear of Death
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
I oppose the Israeli attack on Gaza. My father and uncle were born in Bath, England and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Both of them spoke Arabic fluently. My wife is a Rabbi. (I consider myself Quaker; my wife thinks I’m basically Catholic.) The lesson I take from the Holocaust is that silence equals complicity. I [...]
Obama: Corporate Militarist
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Hope is one of the most powerful drugs, but it’s no substitute for progressive change. Our new President is dedicated to preserving a corrupt system. The US military is deploying in the USA. The government is going to bail out creditors instead of debtors. Get [...]US House Backs Away From Iran War
Saturday, September 27, 2008
HR 362 is off the table for this session of Congress. Last July, I and other critics decried this resolution as being the functional equivalent of a declaration of war against Iran. The Democratic leadership in the House agreed.
House Resolution 2605 isn’t as well known, but it is far more visionary. The author [...]Privacy Dies in France
Thursday, September 11, 2008
The right to privacy is in deep trouble throughout the western world. The latest bad news comes from France, which has just been saddled with a new national intelligence agency with the power to keep track of the political ideas and sex lives of people who are not suspected of being criminals.
Time will [...]