The Afghanistan war that has been going for 10 years(!) has caused a lot of horrible things to happen to all the belligerents. The American forces have been accused of torture and other horrible actions to Afghanis, and in Canada a few years ago there was accusations that Canadian forces let people be tortured as […]
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Canadian Progressive World: CPW Book Salon: Taking A Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights
Author: Juan E. Méndez and Marjory Wentworth Palgrave Macmillan, September 2011 ISBN: 978-0-230-11233-9, ISBN10: 0-230-11233-1, 156.000 x 234.000 inches, 256 pages Juan Méndez has experienced human rights abuse first hand. As a result of his …R…
Continue readingthe woodshed: Truth will out eventually
They’ve tried sandbagging the parliamentary committees involved, they’ve tried smearing the witnesses, they’ve tried wrapping themselves in the flag and “our brave men and women in uniform” – they’ve even tried shutting down Parliament. But the governm…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: #occupywallstreet grows while MSM misses the message
Why is mainstream media ignoring the #OccupyWallStreet protests?
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: If Canada had Ethical Standards We’d Arrest Cheney.
But we won’t. Complicity in torture and violating international law is the business of other countries, certainly not the U.S. “Human Rights Watch is urging the Canadian government to “be prepared” to bring criminal charges against former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney when he visits Vancouver on his book tour next week. The New York-based rights […]
somecanuckchick dot com: I think less of you!
If you are a member of Le Bon Mot Book Club, I think less of you! Instead of scratching our heads wondering what kind of avaricious, bottom feeding, social pariah pays $500 to listen to Dick Cheney — an alleged war criminal — speak… *cough* I encourage Canadians to write
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Susan Delacourt points out some analysis from Greg Lyle which looks to confirm my general take on the real balance of popular opinion between the Cons and the opposition:It’s important to understand that the …
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Review of Dennis Edney’s Lecture, “The Rule of Law in an Age of Terror”
“Human rights have a dysfunctional relationship with justice. The language is certainly beautiful, but it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,” charged Dennis Edney in a scathing lecture at the Faculty of Law at UBC on September 15. Edney worked from 2004 to 2011 on Omar Khadr’s defence against charges stemming from the July […]
Driving The Porcelain Bus: How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones
Let Freedom Rain: How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stonesA side of the story you won’t read in the Canadian media. Heartbreaking account of Israeli ‘torture’ of Palestinian kids. Stephen Harper must be so pleased.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Killing Children in the Name of the christian GOD – The DWR Sunday Disservice
The idea that religion is harmless and that it is good for people, is patently false. The raging torrent of evil shit that religion is responsible for claims more victims every second we allow magical thinking to be acceptable and “OK” in our society. It is a double header today, two videos for the […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Spawn of Guantanamo Bay – SuperMax Prison Hell
Prison is not supposed to be a walk in the beach. I understand that. People that commit offences need to be consequenced for their transgressions against what society deems to be the proper set of standards. Consequences should not include psychological torture, self-mutilation and degradation. “Supermax prisoners’ daily lives are chock full of alienating and […]
Peace, order and good government, eh?: "the Obama administration has all but abandoned its obligations"
That’s how the Guardian’s Chris McGreal summarizes the reasoning behind the call from Human Rights Watch for foreign governments to prosecute George W. Bush — among others — for torture. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday that the US authorities were legally obliged to investigate the top echelons of the Bush administration over crimes such as torture, abduction and other mistreatment of prisoners. It says that the former administration’s legal team was part of the conspiracy in preparing opinions authorising abuses that they knew to have no standing in US or international law. Besides Bush, HRW names his vice-president, Dick Cheney, the former defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and the ex-CIA director, George Tenet, as likely to be guilty of authorising torture and other crimes. The report also suggests an investigation into the roles played by Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft and "administration lawyers."…
Continue readingCanada’s largest mental health institutions: Prisons
Decades ago recognizing that the institutionalisation of the mentally ill was cruel,unjust and counter productive, we started closing these facilities and embarked on a policy of community care.Well it appears that we have come full circle.The numbers …
Continue readingThe Sean Salvati #G20 video: Abu Ghraib comes to Toronto
So apparently it takes three big strong police officers to manhandle one guy. Naked and handcuffed.Don’t know whether this is before or after they beat the shit out of him.And please, spare us the pathetically transparent bullshit about security. There…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Toronto G20 Use of Agent Provocateurs
This goes in the ‘no s7!t’ pile of obvious conclusions about what happened last year during the G20 conference in Toronto, but it’s still worth reporting to the general public that what went down last year was just plain wrong.
Once a…
Accidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Plenty of observers have noted the Cons’ complete lack of a reasonable explanation for standing in the way of a global consensus to at least ensure that asbestos is accurately labeled as a hazardous substance. But yo…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Stonewalled
Not that it should come as much surprise that the release of the first report (PDF) from the Afghan detainee document panel fits the pattern of delay and distraction from the Cons. But this declaration (italics added) looks to take the stonewalling to …
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Pelican Bay Prisoners Set to Hunger Strike July 1
On July 1, 2011, between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, are going on an indefinite hunger strike. The D corridor (also known as the “short” corridor) has the highest level of restrict…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: TORTURE PROGRAM – US
No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees – The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 – by Andrew Cohen Whatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation’s inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-revealed documents remind us again of the wide gulf
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: TORTURE PROGRAM – US
No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees – The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 – by Andrew CohenWhatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation’s inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-rev…
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