Danny Robbins at Associated Press reported last Friday that the Texas State Board of Examiners dismissed a licensing complaint filed by a Texas psychologist against former SERE psychologist James Mitchell. Mitchell was accused of “violating the standards demanded by the Psychologists‘ Licensing Act and the Board‘s Rules of Practice” (PDF). Specifically, the complaint cited Mitchell’s [...]
February 28, 2011 | Filed under
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As press attention shifted away from Egypt in the wake of the unanimous vote of the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his cronies, Egypt was experiencing developments that some observers viewed with alarm while others downplayed as an “entirely predictable dynamic” we can “expect to see” in [...]
February 28, 2011 | Filed under
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There are a lot of ironies in the Wisconsin fight between the Republican-dominated legislature and the working class. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the State Senate unanimously passed a resolution to honor the Green Bay Packers for winning the Super Bowl. Every one of the players is a member of a union. Of course, only the [...]
February 26, 2011 | Filed under
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It’s dangerous to draw too many parallels between the folks who turned out to protest in Tahrir Square in Egypt and the folks protesting outside the State Capital in Madison, Wisconsin. Both situations are complicated and it’s too easy to fall into a Glenn Beck simplistic, fact-free prescriptive rant about how we got here and [...]
February 26, 2011 | Filed under
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For the US attorneys who represent prisoners in Guantánamo, and who have spent many years seeking justice for their clients, it has been a long, and generally disappointing road. After triumph in June 2004, when, in Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court granted the prisoners habeas corpus rights, allowing them to meet their clients for [...]
February 25, 2011 | Filed under
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Major human rights groups and Middle East experts unanimously agreed today that the United Nations was not nearly tough enough in its condemnation of Libyan dictator Moammar El-Gadhafi, who is currently trying desperately to hang on to power by mobilizing his army, air force, and mercenary militias to attack Libyan citizens demanding an end to [...]
February 24, 2011 | Filed under
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The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The Road to Revolution Part One :: Neo-Liberal Economic Domination I :: Centrally Planned Economic Repression II :: Economic Imperialism: IMF Plunder of Egypt and Tunisia III :: US-Egypt Economic Parallels: Inequality & Poverty IV :: [...]
February 23, 2011 | Filed under
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“Now people are dying we’ve got nothing else to live for. What needs to happen is for the killing to stop. But that won’t happen until he [Gaddafi] is out. We just want to be able to live like human beings. Nothing will happen until protests really kick off in Tripoli, the capital. It’s like [...]
February 22, 2011 | Filed under
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Less than three years ago, Human Rights Watch handed over to the Libyan Government the 2009 edition of its annual survey, entitled “A Facade of Action — The Misuse of Dialogue and Cooperation with Rights Abusers.” The Libyan chapter of the report, like its annual predecessors, made an extensive series of recommendations for ridding the [...]
February 22, 2011 | Filed under
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LONDON-The revolution in Egypt came in spite of (or perhaps because of) a long-standing US backing of the dictatorship there. It was clear from the beginning that the protesters were united on one demand: namely that the unelected regime stand down or allow genuine political reform to be carried out. It is easy to see [...]
February 21, 2011 | Filed under
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