Posts Tagged ‘Law’
On the Coming Fall of the American Empire
Campaign for Liberty | By Daniel McCarthy | 23 July 2010 Bruce Fein's American Empire: Before the Fall is not for the faint of heart. "You, your family, your friends, your professional colleagues, and your elected and appointed officials in the nation's highest circles will fiercely resist the truths this book expounds," the author warns. He's [...]
Iran calls for democracy, not fascism, at the world level
Reuters | By Robert Evans | 19 July 2010 Iran calls for world body free of big power control (Reuters) - Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more powerful global body free of big-power domination. Speaking to an audience [...]
The Caliphate of Elizabeth Regina
Afpakwar | By Arshad Zaman | 15 July 2010 A host of clichés on law and governance—religion has no place in politics, church and state must be separate, etc.—adorn the Op-Ed columns of newspapers. They are said to be based on the English example, among others. England is ruled today by “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the [...]
Dead End for Pakistan
The News | By Roedad Khan | 29 June 2010 Heading for the dead end Our moment of truth has arrived. For Pakistan the hour has struck. To borrow the prophetic words of Dostoevsky, "I have a presentiment of sorts that the lots are drawn and accounts may have to be settled far sooner than one might imagine in one's wildest dreams". Terror is [...]
Corruption: The Hole in the Whole of Government (WOG) Approach
abc News | By Aamer Madhani | 20 June 2010 U.S. Troops, Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan Suspected of Corruption Officers Charged With Theft, Bribery in Oversees Reconstruction Projects The U.S. government, which is pressing Iraqi and Afghan leaders to get tough on internal corruption, is doing the same in its ranks. Cases of [...]
On Consensual Islam
The News | By Arshad Zaman | 20 June 2010 There is a quality to Ayaz Amir's columns--wise, without being pretentious, with a seriousness wrapped in laughter--that can only be admired. Yet in the seductive laughter of his columns there can on rare occasions be ideas and recommendations that can provide fodder to a demagogue. In a [...]
Gallup: Most Muslims Feel Islamic Law Provides Justice for All
Gallup: The Coexist Foundation | by Magali Rheault and Dalia Mogahed | 25 July 2008 Many Turks, Iranians, Egyptians Link Sharia and Justice Egyptians most likely to make positive associations with Sharia The first article analyzed public attitudes about the role of Sharia as a source of legislation, concluding that although perceptions vary [...]
America’s Non-Compliance
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 9 · 13 May 2010 | pages 18-22 Gareth Peirce presents the case against extradition During the first months of this year, the embers of a long running legal controversy have reignited in the United States. ‘Of all the issues,’ Rahm Emanuel was told by the senior Republican senator for South Carolina, [...]
Cheney Admits to War Crimes
Truthout | By Jason Leopold | 15 February 2010 Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration [...]
For Americans: Liberty and Justice under Presidential “Findings”
Antiwar | By Philip Giraldi | 13 February 2010 Civis Romanus Sum “I am a Roman citizen” was a proud boast in the first century A.D. It implied the obligations of citizenship but also guaranteed privileges and rights that would be observed and protected by the Roman government. Among those rights was the ability to demand one’s day in [...]
