11 November 2010
Written by BBC Newsnight
After taking part in the student protest and occupation of Tory head office ULU President Clare Solomon appeared on BBC Newsnight defending the resistance of students and calling for more occupations across the country.
Thursday 11 November 2010
by: Bill Quigley
In his memoir (which some wise people have already moved in bookstores to the CRIME section) George W. Bush admitted that he authorized that detainees be waterboarded, tortured, a crime under US and international law.
Bush’s crime confession coincides with reports that no one will face criminal charges from the US Department of Justice for the destruction of 92 CIA videotapes which contained interrogations using waterboarding.
Where is the accountability for these crimes?
By Scott Horton
Madhusree Mukerjee, a former editor at Scientific American and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has published a bombshell book about Churchill’s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in 1943. I put six questions to her about her book and some of the pushback it has drawn from Churchill’s defenders:
08.11.10 – 10:39
Jerusalem – PNN – Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth published a report on Monday about the attempted murder of a Chilean tourist in Jerusalem by eight Jewish extremists who mistook him for an Arab.
Jose Dominus Nolido, 43, came to Israel to celebrate the wedding of his son’s Jewish friend and visit holy sites. As he returned to his hotel, Nolido said he was accosted by youths.
By JASON CLAYWORTH
November 6, 2010
Christine Gaunt, 54, of Grinnell.
Civil rights advocates are sounding the alarm, saying the request, if granted, constitutes a violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech and the right to petition government.
You must be logged in to post a comment.