Archive for October, 2002
Conviction of a Brutal Killer Leaves Afghan Justice on Trial
“So when Shah, 37, was convicted of multiple violent crimes and sentenced to death last week by a national security court here, many Afghans cheered the verdict as a milestone for the country’s fledgling justice system and a potential model for prosecuting other war crimes that flourished in the chaotic period before the Taliban takeover [...]
Dad’s ‘Immoral’ Poem Exiles Son
“An Egyptian appeals court has confirmed the guilty verdict in the case of Shohdy Naguib Surur, who was sentenced to one year in prison in June for posting his father’s poem on the Internet.”
Wired News
contributions to federal candidates
The list in this report of the top 100 organizational donors since 1989 is the first installment of ongoing research…
“Incumbency, rather than party affiliation, was the key to winning contributions from this group of blue chip political investors. Among business groups, 77 percent of the money that went to candidates wound up in the re-election [...]
Juvenile Death Penalty
“The United States is alone among Western nations in executing those who committed their crimes as juveniles. According to statistics compiled by the law school at American University, of 33 such executions around the world since 1990, 18 were in the United States”
NY Times
What a Difference Four Years Makes: Why U.N. inspectors left Iraq–then and now
This is an interesting list of quotes from four years ago and from today. It includes almost every major news source (NY Times, Newsweek, LA Times, CNN, etc.) Then they said that the inspectors were “ordered” out by the UN. Now they all say that the inspectors were “kicked out” by Iraq!!!
(Thanks to cursor.org for [...]
March For Peace On Saturday
“This Saturday, Oct. 26, tens of thousands of students, peaceniks, priests, union members, war veterans and working moms and dads will gather in Washington D.C. and San Francisco to protest the war on Iraq. It will be the latest and biggest in a series of protests that have been spontaneously emerging across the nation over [...]
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Australian Hypocrisy
“Howard’s openly racist policies have again begun to isolate Australia. He has deployed Australian troops against helpless, mostly Muslim,asylum-seekers on the high seas - more than 350 people went to their deaths in a leaking boat last year even though, as it has now been revealed, Australian military intelligence knew they were in great peril. [...]
Paxil is Forever
Whehter or not the main claim of this article (that Paxil is addictive) is true, the following data is quite scary:
“The ads pay off for drug companies. Ninety-one percent of people surveyed in 2000 by Prevention remembered seeing a drug ad; one third of them then asked their doctor about the medicine. Seventy-one percent of [...]
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