Showing posts with label Guantanamo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guantanamo. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

OPINION: Artful dodger does himself no favours on David Hicks ...

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A recent episode of the ABC's Q&A almost became a battle of the memoirs. John Howard was the sole guest, his appearance fitting v...
Monday, November 01, 2010

COMMENT: Why David Hicks matters ...

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I've just started reading David Hicks' memoirs. I'm upto the part where he travels to Pakistan and spends time with the Tabligh ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

VIDEO: Rabiye Kadeer's call to settle remaining Uighur Guantanamo detainees ...

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Exiled World Uighur Congress leader Rabiye Kadeer told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday: All of the Uighurs in Albania, Bermuda...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

OPINION: Values blur in good and evil ...

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Uncle Sam stands at the top of a flight of stairs, looking more than slightly perplexed. Below him is a windowless chamber its sparse furnis...
Monday, May 18, 2009

POLITICS/COMMENT: Rebuking Rumsfeld ...

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GQ Magazine carries an interesting and lengthy feature article profiling former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld through the eyes of ...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

VIDEO: Uighurs from Guantanamo settled in Albania ...

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Here is the text accompanying this DW European Journal video: Two years ago, four Uighurs were released from the US detention center in G...
Monday, April 20, 2009

COMMENT: On CIA doctors and Hippocratic hypocrisy ...

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There are medical practitioners. And then there are medico-legal mercenaries. I came across a few of the latter during my brief stint as a p...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

CRIKEY: Become the evil you wish to see defeated ...

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Mahatma Gandhi once said: "Be the change you want to see". But in George W Bush's so-called "war on terror", the ext...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

CRIKEY: Karadzic v Guantanamo Bay detainees: two very different trials...

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Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, has just been found guilty of war crimes at a military tribunal held at Guantanamo Bay. He could...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

OPINION: Western civilisation? What a good idea that would be ...

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A journalist asked Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of Western civilisation. Gandhi responded: "I think it wou...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

CRIKEY: The 9/11 accused deserve a fair trial

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If I argued that those arrested for online child p-rnography deserve a fair trial, would anyone accuse me of being an apologist for child p...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

CRIKEY: Who knew what (and when) about Habib's torture?

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ASIO head honcho Paul O'Sullivan told a Senate Hearing that Australia expressed its opposition to Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib being...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

BLOG: Tim Blair's Saturday morning rant ...

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Far-Right blogger Tim Blair has now been given space on the Daily Telegraph website. At 4:59am on Saturday 17 May 2008, Blair expressed his...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

CRIKEY: Where's the outrage over Sami al-Hajj?

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African-American comic and anti-racism activist Preacher Moss frequently uses a joke about black men and the American justice system. The b...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

CRIKEY: They should hang their heads over the Hicks farce ...

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Even after David Hicks was released from Guantanamo Bay in a hasty fashion, allegedly conservative cultural warriors like Gerard Henderson a...