Today, a French court of appeal stopped all inquiries into a 160 million Euros portfolio held in France, and allegedly acquired with stolen public funds, by the leaders of some of Africa’s poorest countries. The case was brought by the organization Transparency International, based in Berlin, against the president of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang, the [...]
It has been almost 10 months since Dawn Johnsen was nominated to run a key department at the Department of Justice. She is an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s use of torture, and was nominated by President Obama to fill the position responsible for Bush’s torture policy. But her nomination has not been a top priority for neither senate Democrats nor the White House.
“I need a little affection… I’m blond & cute… I’ll be waiting….” This vaguely titillating ad–mild by the steamy standards of the sexually provocative personals posted on the busy site Craigslist–isn’t really news. Except the “woman” for whom it was posted is nine years old. No, this isn’t a story about a precocious pre-pubescent run [...]
It was 38 degrees and the cold desert wind was blowing down from the Sierra foothills. I was in Hawthorne Nevada, an odd town of a few hundred shabby houses guarded by chain linked fences, every one with a vicious dog. This place is an odd backwater of Americana, with a strong ethnic mix brought by the nearby military bases that guard the largest ammunition and ordnance depot in the nation. A perfect place for an explosive interview.
In a report published on Tuesday, Amnesty International said Israel pursues discrimination policies in its control of water availability in the Palestinian territories. Meanwhile, Israel provides settlers in the occupied West Bank unlimited water supplies. “Israel allows the Palestinians access to only a fraction of the shared water resources, which lie mostly in the occupied [...]
