With each year that passes, nuclear weapons provide their possessors with less safety while provoking more danger. Possession of nuclear arms provokes proliferation. Both nourish the global nuclear infrastructure, which in turn enlarges the possibility of acquisition by terrorist groups.The step that ...
Medea: We learned that there were major differences among the different groups but also some major commonalities. The biggest commonality is that they were all anxious to find a way for the U.S. troops to leave. Some of them said they should have been gone yesterday and tomorrow wouldn't be soon enough, ...
A group of young Bolivian musicians are playing traditional autoctonous or indigenous Andean music in Cochabamba's main plaza. Surrounded by towering mountains, this valley city of 650,000 is a hub of political, cultural and social activity. Cochabamba's plazas are usually filled with families, flowers, ...
In August, a delegation of peace activists, including Code Pink and YES! board member Dal LaMagna, traveled to Jordan to hear from Iraqi leaders what they think it would take to end the violence. It turns out, the Iraqi leadership have some pretty clear ideas, and LaMagna wanted to present them to people ...
Last week a military court judge ruled Lt. Ehren Watada, the first Army Lieutenant to refuse orders to deploy to Iraq, could not raise the legality of the Iraq War in his defense. Members of the public gathered over the weekend for a Citizens' Hearing on the Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq. The hearing ...
“Everything is the movement,” says Patricia Jimenez
Alvarado, looking at me across her kitchen table. “You don't have a
personal life anymore.” She leans her face into her open palms, and
weeps. Jimenez, in her mid-forties, is a thesis advisor at
Oaxaca State University by profession. But the government ...
Number of U.S. documents classified as secret in 2001: 7.8 millionNumber classified in 2005: 14.2 millionCost to taxpayers for the U.S. government to classify 14.2 million documents: $7.7 billion [1]SSSAASSNumber of catalogs Victoria's Secret sends out per year: 365 millionNumber of virgin trees ...
Looking at the United States through the lens of human rights
illuminates persistent inequities in U.S. society and offers an
alternative view of how it can and should be changed. The United States
has been rightly proud of its historical leadership in global human
rights. As the country's conduct ...
The plea was straightforward, Chris O'Bryant's court-appointed
lawyer told him: Take a life sentence on each of two counts and get out
in 25 years, maybe sooner. O'Bryant had wanted to go to trial
and claim voluntary intoxication—after all, he didn't remember robbing
anyone or shooting at a police ...
In 1948, before the ink
was dry on the new Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR), the United States was backing away from its
commitment—particularly to economic human rights. George
Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff,
wrote, “We have about 50 percent of the ...
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