Beneath the noisy protests and the quiet remembrances that surrounded the 9/11 anniversary in Washington and across the United States, there is also hard calculation about a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. A striking fact at this... During my visits beyond the borders of Nicaragua, the international media and friends and colleagues often ask me to explain the current situation in the country. What happened, they enquire, to that revolution of 1979 - the last of the 20th century... For the last twenty years I’ve been saying that the best thing we ever did for our children was to send them through the French school system. And now their own children are happily and variously in the maternelle, the école primaire or The death of Lord Bingham, the eminent judge and jurist who preferred to be known as Tom Bingham, struck down by cancer at 76, is a great loss. His arguments about fundamental rights, the power of the judiciary and its relationship to parliament... In Part One, the opening to Weizman’s lecture by way of introduction, is followed by his account of the legal processes involved in the implementation of the siege of Gaza and some general conclusions. Part Two is a conversation on the lecture,... Rosemary Bechler: Before moving onto the examples involving the porosity of the Wall, you started your lecture with a section entitled, ‘The best of all possible walls’, in which you consider a set of legal cases dealing with the route of the... Peace will not come unless we can begin to loosen the stranglehold of militarism. To transform the way people think and the systems that currently dominate our world we need a strong and effective movement for peace, on a global scale. How can we... Facing some of the highest rates of violent crime in the world, a number of Caribbean societies are beginning to unravel. According to the United Nations, Bahamians, Jamaicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans and Trinidadians are four times more likely to... So the Labour leadership ballots are here, ready to be returned. Like a lot of people in the Labour Party, I've asked myself many times why I remained a member. The real answer to this question is complex and multi-faceted, but a part of it... The Liberal Democrats must fight to salvage their promise to end the detention of children for immigration purposes in the UK. Ask Boy A what he is scared of and he says dogs, strangers and policemen. He is scared to go outside and play with friends....
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Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Iran, sanctions and war: fuel of crisis, Rasool Nafisi
Nicaragua’s broken polity , Sergio Ramírez
School wars: France vs England , Anne Corbett
"Inform and arouse public opinion" Lord Bingham's call to reverse the erosion of liberty, Tom Bingham
Material Proportionality: the Paul Hirst Memorial Lecture, 2010, Eyal Weizman
Forensic Architecture and the speech of things: a conversation , Rosemary Bechler and Eyal Weizman
How can we build an effective global peace movement? , Diana Francis
Jamaica's war on gangs, Robert Muggah and Glaister Leslie
Modernity, community, and the contested future: Thoughts on the Labour leadership election, Jeremy Gilbert
State-sponsored cruelty, Clare Sambrook
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