Following reports of a fresh massacre by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, U.N. observers were blocked from reaching the shot by small-arms fire in what U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called an “unspeakable barbarity.” After the latest massacre—in Qubair, a village of 140 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Law’
January 23rd, 2012 - 10:03 pm § in Uncategorized
Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath
Jules van Schaijik of the Personalist Project writes about the Hippocratic Oath (excerpted) “Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality”, by Edmund D. Pellegrino, provides a good example. The Hippocratic ethic, Pellegrino thinks, is paternalistic to a degree that is simply no longer acceptabl[...]
April 16th, 2011 - 8:54 am § in Environment, Religion
Frank Lutz: How to Keep NPR Funded!
from the Dianne Rheems show: There are five different types of people for you to reach out to. Rejecters, Disagreeables, Neutrals, Accepters and Embracers. Each one of those terms means something. You need to forget the Rejecters because there’s nothing you can do to influence them. “The[...]
Illegal activity on the Temple Mount, Jerusalem
Ed. Imagine visiting a former home, the place your ancestors lived for hundreds of years. There is a cemetery there, now owned by THEM, the people who drove your ancestors out. You walk around finding gravestones with your family’s name. The gravestones are hard to find because a con[...]
March 25th, 2011 - 2:12 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
RIGHT OF FACULTY TO SPEAK OUT: Playing Zorro
GOP DEMANDS EMAILS OF UWisc. HISTORY PROFESSOR Ed. Remember Batman? How about Zorro? Batman and Zorro could fight crime only while their Bruce Wayne or Don Diego de la Vega identities were kept secret. Here on campus we are all “Zorro”: no matter how idealistic our goals might [...]
March 15th, 2011 - 8:55 pm § in Hypocrisy
Protests Grow of Bradley Manning’s Treatment in Detention
Cruel and Unusual Punishment? By SPIEGEL Staff Activists protest the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention in front of the US State Department in Washington on Monday. The conditions under which presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are being held have been tightened again. Even US pol[...]
SRO Crowd Reclaims Democracy for Real People
SEATTLE, March 11 -- Last night a SRO crowd flocked to UW's Kane Hall to brainstorm strategy and tactics in the fight against the legal fiction of corporate personhood underpinning the CITIZENS decision. Titled After Citizens United: Reclaiming Democracy for PEOPLE, the event was sponsored by Washin[...]
An Open Letter from WI Senator Chris Larson
This is Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson -- and today, I'm heading home to Wisconsin to join the fight in person. The last three weeks have shown what progressive strength and worker solidarity look like. My fellow senators and I know that thousands of PCCC members in Wisconsin and across the[...]
The Story of Citizens United: New Video Lays Out the Case
New animated short shows how corporate power has eroded our rights and corrupted our democracy. Animations parody the political process we all know and love. 9-min video goes a long way toward explaining why the people's expressed desires are thwarted over and over by special interests.[...]
Public Forum: “After Citizens United”, 3/10 at Kane Hall
On Thursday March 10, Washington Public Campaigns will present a Public Forum at Kane Hall Room 220, UW. Beginning at 7 p.m., the program will deal with the impact of the precedent-shattering Supreme Court decision on campaign finance, and how citizens can fight the ruling. http://www.washclean.org/[...]