Right Wing News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over at the Smirking Chimp, Ernest Partridge is riffing about evil, In words consistent with what I have read of, and about, Gustav Gilbert, he is portrayed in the 2000 TV film "Nuremberg," as telling the Head Prosecutor Robert Jackson...
Shining Light In Dark Corners (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
AlterNet1. World peace cannot be achieved without human rights and accountability. According to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunals, "The ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law." Moving in that direction will be impossible unless...
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
You Are Cordially Invited To Join Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Council Member Robert Jackson At a Ceremony To Name the Promenade at the Heather Garden In Honor of Stan Michels In Recognition of His Years of Dedicated Public Service and Steadfast Support for Our Parks Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:00 p.m. Fort Tryon Park Margaret Corbin Circle Fort Washington Avenue north of West 190th...
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... powers of a king or dictator strikes at the very heart of our democracy. As Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson put it, we, as citizens, would "submit ourselves to rules only if under rules." Countries like Chile can attest that the restoration of democracy and the rule of law requires more than voting a new party into office--it requires a rejection of impunity for the criminal...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Extra buses are being laid on to help ferry real ale lovers between six rural pubs taking part in a beer festival.
