Letter from the American Association for the Advancement of Science to the US Senate

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Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture 2009

Most of the world is still living in the homophobic dark ages, but LGBT people are defiant and making gains.

Delivered 13 October 2009 at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, UK.

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President Obama does not yet deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. That he was himself the first to say so does not make it less true.

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New York--Seventeen human rights and civil rights organizations and 45 prominent lawyers and civic leaders have sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week urging him to appoint a special independent prosecutor to investigate and prosecute Bush officials and lawyers involved in setting illegal interrogation policies.

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In the last two days, I attended two conferences, one in An-Najah National University in Nablus on American Studies in Palestine and one at Al-Quds University on the future of Palestine.  The first was an interesting conference that showed there are so many Palestinians in different universities here who were educated in the US and who understand perfectly well how the US system works (sometimes their ideas are deeper and more relevant to US future than American Professors) and what it takes to change US foreign policy. The second conference was rather timely.

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On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China, the Simon Fraser University China Research Society invites everyone to participate in a Forum on China. With China well on the way to becoming a major world power, experts and scholars will come together to analyze China’s current situation and review the Party’s 60-year reign.

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Gush Shalom: We hope the Goldstone conclusions will deter future trigger-happy government  behaviour
 
The severe conclusions of the Goldstone Commission are part of the high and continuing price which the state of Israel must pay for the decision to conduct a brutal and unnecessary war in Gaza.

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July 20, 2009 marks an important anniversary.  But unlike most anniversaries, this is not a happy one, and provides no occasion for celebration.  Ten years ago, on July 20th, 1999 the Chinese Communist Party launched a genocidal campaign of torture, mass murder, and ultimately of genocide directed against some seventy to one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners in China. 

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