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• "The Army is basically paying the Taliban not to shoot at them"

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 654
  By Steve Hynd Todays must-read is by Aram Roston over at The Nation as he gets in-depth about a major part of the Talibans funding: "the US militarys contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes" in deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars to contractors and Taliban ...
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• China: Secret “Black Jails” Hide Severe Rights Abuses

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 680
  (New York) - Since 2003, large numbers of Chinese citizens have been held incommunicado for days or months in secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" by state agents who violate detainees rights with impunity, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. read more
  22 hours ago

• Rule of Law Index

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 422
  The World Justice Forum meeting in Vienna, Austria has just released the Rule of Law Index. The Index uses numerical indicators to gauge the strength of rule of law in 35 countries, including developed and developing countries.Here are the 4 broad criteria , with sub-categories, used to create the scores  for each ...
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• The Trouble With ‘Zero Tolerance’

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Congress took a reasonable step in 1994 when it required states receiving federal education money to expel students who brought guns onto school property, but states and localities overreacted, as they so often do. They enacted “zero tolerance” policies under which children are sometimes arrested for profanity, ...
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• GOP history ~ Bad Republican Judges: Sandy

  
  www.TheReaganWing.com — Authority: 418
  The following was originally published in 2005. It was (and is) a call to war and is republished, here, both in honor of Veteran’s Day and in memory of R71.Now that she’s out of our hair, the smart money politically is to say nice things about retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She was [...]
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• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong. ...
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• Jerry Brown: Acorn, Suspicion and the Rule of Law

  
  Big Government — Authority: 805
  According to the legendary Greek Historian Plutarch, when asked why he divorced his wife, Caesar stated that:  “All women shall be as Caesar would have his wife, not only free from sin, but from suspicion.”  At the time, Caesar’s wife, Pompeia, was loosely associated with the commission of a sacrilege by ...
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• CAP: Postpone Gitmo Close, Send Leftovers to Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 783
  The influential Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the Obama administration , is now calling on President Obama to push back the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center to July . That’s despite the president’s day-two directive to close the notorious prison by January. Closure has ...
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• ACLU Report Calls For Stronger U.S. Privacy Oversight Institutions

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  “The United States needs stronger privacy institutions to protect us at a time when new technology and new government powers are threatening our privacy in truly unprecedented ways,” said Michael Macleod-Ball, Acting Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “The history of abuse during the civil ...
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• The Public Uselessness of Crony Capitalism

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 760
  The Washington Examiner ’s Tim Carney points to news from The Hartford Courant that the development project at the center of the Fifth Amendment takings clause case Kelo v. City of New London has just been abandoned by Pfizer. Watch The CATO Institute’s recitation of the case: Click here to view the embedded ...
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• Adult Time for Adult Crime: Ethan Allen Windom

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 760
  On November 9th , the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging the constitutionality of juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences. In preparation for oral arguments, JLWOP: Faces & Cases will be an on-going series on The Foundry that will tell real stories about juvenile offenders who are ...
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• Karzais corruption pipe dream

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 654
  By Dave Anderson: The San Fransisco Gate is carrying a great whopper of a tall tale: With his reputation sullied by the messy election, Karzai gave assurances Sunday that he would rid his government of corrupt officials. "Individuals who are involved in corruption will have no place in the government," Karzai ...
  3 days ago

• Torture Update: Andy Worthington’s Excellent New Film

  
  BOVARD — Authority: 417
  Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files , is touring the U.S. with his excellent new film, “ Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo .” He will be in California later this week. Tour schedule is here . “Outside the Law” does a fine job of blending the legal issues and personal ...
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• Israel and International Law: The Bullet-Proof Vest Has Been Confiscated

  
  The Third Way: Finding Balance In Mideast Analysis — Authority: 106
  Attorney Michael Sfard, who works with numerous Israeli human rights groups, published this op-ed in Hebrew in Yediot Ahoronot last week. To the best of my knowledge, it hasn’t been translated on the web, so here it is. Israel and International Law: The Bullet-Proof Vest Has Been Confiscated Yedioth Ahronoth – ...
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• Still-murky copyright treaty could change web as we use it

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The future of the Internet in Canada may have been decided in Seoul, Korea, this past week. But its hard to be sure, since the latest negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement were held in secret, as they have been in the past, and the only details came to the public through leaks, says Michael Geist, a ...
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• TIMOR-LESTE BETRAYED AND RANSACKED ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST

  
  East Timor Law and Justice Bulletin — Authority: 139
  Tuesday, 3 November 2009TIMOR-LESTE BETRAYED AND RANSACKED ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL INTERESTBy ALFREDO XimenesWe are about two and a half years of inauguration of the Government of the AMP, about half a mandate – 5 years – for a Government that hold in normal time. It is enough time for us to speak of his work, ...
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• Scoop: World Poll: Intl. Law Ahead of National Interest

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  A poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org finds that most people in 17 of 21 nations surveyed say their government should abide by international law and reject the view that governments are not obliged to follow such laws when they conflict with the national interest. Most respondents in two out of three nations polled are ...
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• OAS secretary general issues statement on the situation in Honduras

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, on Friday deplored the disruption to the process of implementation of the Agreement reached in Tegucigalpa on October 30. “The measures approved in the Agreement are clear and were signed by the parties of their own free will. ...
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• Chief Justice Speech in Lahore Bar

  
  Pakistan Politics — Authority: 154
  Speech of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry in Lahore Bar event (07 Nov 2009).
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• Injustice in Illinois -Ari Berman

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  "Theres a very important editorial in The Nation this week that I hope everyone will take the time to read. Its about the wrongful conviction of Anthony McKinney, whos been in prison for thirty-one years for a murder he did not commit." NOTE: The entire editorial is here: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091123/editors ...
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