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Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | The US psychological torture system is finally on trial
America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners insane. Now it is being held to account in a Miami court
American Journal of Preventive Medicine: The Rising Prevalence of Severe Poverty in America: A Growing Threat to Public Health - Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 332-341.e2 (October 2006)
The U.S. poverty rate has increased since 2000, but the depth of poverty experienced by Americans has been inadequately studied. Of particular concern is whether severe poverty is increasing, a trend that would carry important public health implications.
The Answer to Darfur
event last week from ENOUGH, an initiative co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and International Crisis Group, made a cogent yet forceful call for intensified U.S. and international engagement in Darfur to resolve the ongoing crisis.
The Answer to Darfur
first in a series of events sponsored by the newly created ENOUGH: the Project to End Genocide and Mass Atrocities. The mission of ENOUGH is to end crimes against humanity in Darfur, northern Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to prevent
SUDAN: Darfur Activists Frustrated With US Inaction
Nii Akuetteh, executive director of Africa Action
The Georgetown Voice | Natsios describes on-going Sudanese crisis by Mariam Khan - February 8, 2007
The on-going Darfur crisis is no longer a genocide situation, according to U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios. Natsios, a Professor in the School of Foreign Service, spoke on Wednesday in
Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment by Michael Moss - New York Times (12/18/2006)
Camp Cropper, the United States military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad.
U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Launched in 2001, ... to generate a broad base of interest about conditions in North Korea and to conduct and publish research focusing U.S. and world attention on human rights abuse in that country.
Turn North Korea Into a Human Rights Issue by Vaclav Havel Kjell Magne Bondevik & Elie Wiesel - New York Times (Published: October 30, 2006)
States will retain sovereignty over their own territory, but if they should fail to protect their own citizens from severe human-rights abuses, the international community now has an obligation to intervene through regional bodies and the United Nations,
An Offer Kim Can't Refuse By Aaron L. Friedberg - washingtonpost.com - Monday, October 16, 2006; Page A21
Though the hour is late and the odds long, there is still a chance that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il can be persuaded to give up his nuclear arsenal.
Princeton University Department of Politics - Aaron L. Friedberg bio
international security studies, and U.S. foreign and defense policies, with a focus on East Asia and on the interconnections between the subfields of political economy and security studies
NPR : U.S. Dismayed by Removal of Iraqi General
The "first words" out of the mouth of the Iraqi general [Beshar?] most highly esteemed by US military: "We are running - not walking - running to the civil war!..."
TheMorganReport
A report to the US Senate by Committee on Foreign Relations, dated February 26, 1894, re the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.
U.S. Naval Observatory - Astronomical Applications Department: What is Universal Time?
North Pole is on UMT. GMT is no longer recommended for scientific use.
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