…unprecedented action by members of civil society across the world against the injustice of Israel's disproportionately brutal response to the firing of missiles from Palestine. If you add together all the people who gathered over the past weekend to…
…youngsters into pulp, especially their faces and teeth, while filming the whole episode for distribution among their mates. The juvenile court judge provides the grisly details http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHJouSioDU …
…kerry-against-netanyahu Robert Naiman, Truthout: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thumbed his nose at John Kerry's Gaza ceasefire proposal because Netanyahu believed he could count on Congress to undermine the Obama administration. But if enough Americans urged…
…Police Raid Hospital in Hebron * How a Year of War and Terror Changed Arab Israelis’ Views * High Court Approves Terror Home Demolitions * Israel to Build Underground Barrier Around Gaza Strip Commentary: * The Economist: “Stick a Label On It” - By The…
…American law. (h/t Darrol) It is this last point on which the "Times"' editorial finally touches. *** "Habeas corpus" - the right of each prisoner to a day in court and not to be tortured - is, as Philip Soper argues, the…
…How different this feels from the crazy election of 2000, brought to an abrupt and puzzling end by the Supreme Court's ill-starred decision to stop counting the ballots, when another new President was installed to preside over a…
…How different this feels from the crazy election of 2000, brought to an abrupt and puzzling end by the Supreme Court's ill-starred decision to stop counting the ballots, when another new President was installed to preside over a…
…lakshmi-piepzna-samarsinha/ ] Jul 20, 2015 03:59 pm | Wendy Elisheva Somerson With all the celebrations of gay same-ness after the Supreme Court's recent decision to legalize gay marriage, I am grateful for Leah Laskhmi Piepzna-Samarasinha…
…are-coming-to-the-828>," Major's other writings have clear racial undertones. In a tweet linking to an articleabout Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and affirmative action, Majors wrote…
…Pierce: Justice Is Blind but It Can Count Read the Article at Esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/There_Goes_The_Judge ----------- Support Truthout with a tax-deductible donation by clicking here: https://members.truth-out.org/donate To…
…That’s why most professionals who specialize in interrogation reject the reliability of the information gained by torture, and why courts throw out confessions obtained by torture. That in fact is why we have the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution …