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TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Who said that? Colin Espiner said it National has this morning bowed to those beating the law and order drum, releasing a parole policy so punitive it makes the United States look like a bastion of liberalism by comparison… The implications of National’s new policy are considerable. At a stroke, National is essentially disestablishing nearly a hundred years of restorative justice and rehabilitation...
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France 24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beijing has cancelled or postponed several military exchanges with the United States to protest planned US arms sales to Taiwan worth 6.5 billion dollars. The Chinese foreign ministry warned that the sales would interfere in China's internal affairs.
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How Appealing (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Access the transcripts of two cases argued today in the Supreme Court of the United States: Now available online are the transcripts for Herring v. United States, No. 07-513, and Arizona v. Gant, No. 07-542....
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Davids Medienkritik (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We at Medienkritik have decided to translate a piece by Jan Ross of Die Zeit to give our readers a feel for the current strain of elitist thought on the United States in German media. Because they can no longer...
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Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today the American Antitrust Institute released its massive report: The Next Antitrust Agenda: The American Antitrust Institute's Transition Report on Competition Policy to the 44th President of the United States.
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JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Words escape me.In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration, a federal judge Tuesday ordered the Pentagon to immediately release a small group of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay into the United States. U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina said in a landmark ruling that it would be wrong for the Bush administration to continue holding the 17 detainees, known as Uighurs, since they are...
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
I used to know Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Her Majesty's ambassador in Kabul, and I have no reason to doubt that he was quoted correctly in the leaked cable from the deputy French ambassador to Afghanistan that has since appeared in the Parisian press. I think that he is right in saying that while there cannot be a straightforward "military victory" for the Taliban and other fundamentalist and criminal...
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TheSpookWhoSatByTheDoor (Free subscription) | yesterday
... include even the people who say they like you, like Bill Cosby to O’Bama, to Bush. Sincerely, The United States Government, In God We Trust. p.s. The Spook is back Bitches Revolution for Revolutionaries 24/7, Yo! & some what is and what aint ( mostly aint )Art Projects thrown in- mostly of a Revolutionary Variety
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
China rebuffs United States over Taiwan arms dealThe Associated Press China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned multibillion-dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, American officials said.Beijing has notified the United States that it would not go forward with several senior-level visits and other cooperative...
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Mabinogogiblog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
The United States should buy Afghanistan's poppy crop instead of trying to eradicate it. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine : "The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime tells us that last year Afghanistan's poppy fields, on 193,000 hectares of land, produced 93 percent of all the world's opium. The potential production could be as high as 8,200 metric tons. And, unsurprisingly, UNODC also...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Germany has returned more than 20 pounds of highly enriched uranium fuel to the U.S. for safeguarding from terrorists or potential ...
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Red State (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following up on this post , I want to be sure to highlight this article by Akbar Ganji on the power wielded by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Religious Guide of Iran and the person Barack Obama tells us he really wants the United States to negotiate with when he is accused of wanting to sit down with president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read the whole thing, but consider especially passages...
