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international / racism & migration related issues Thursday October 27, 2005 - 15:16 by got to be careful
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Dutch authorities have confirmed that 11 migrants have died in a fire at a migrant detention / internment camp at Shiphol airport. The news is reported at the same time that over 600 migrants arrived by boat to Sicily last night. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday October 27, 2005 - 14:02 by writs!
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As you might have noticed all the EU leaders are very upset, this is because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a former brickie elected to the job of leading Iran on August 3rd said yesterday at a conference for "rabidly anti-israeli people" that Israel ought be wiped off the map. & his official press agency thoughtfully told the west about it afterwards. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 13:22 by redjade
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October 26, 2005 Amid all the natural and political disasters it faces, the White House is certainly tireless in its effort to legalize torture. This week, Vice President Dick Cheney proposed a novel solution for the moral and legal problems raised by the use of American soldiers to abuse prisoners and the practice of turning captives over to governments willing to act as proxies in doing the torturing. Mr. Cheney wants to make it legal for the Central Intelligence Agency to do this wet work. [....] But Mr. Cheney's proposal was even more ludicrous. It would give the president the power to allow government agencies outside the Defense Department (the administration has in mind the C.I.A.) to mistreat and torture prisoners as long as that behavior was part of "counterterrorism operations conducted abroad" and they were not American citizens. That would neatly legalize the illegal prisons the C.I.A. is said to be operating around the world and ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday October 27, 2005 - 12:56 by It was there as a link all along
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