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Feb 24 2006
The Failures of Our First Amendment Successes
By MWC NEWS   

Review: The Death of Discourse

There is no shortage of books these days analyzing what contemporary U.S. society gets wrong: Illegal wars of aggression, a cavalier attitude toward potential ecological collapse, narrow-minded religious fundamentalism, widening economic inequality, and lingering racism, sexism, and homophobia. Look too closely at this society, beyond the self-congratulatory triumphalism, and it's not such a pretty picture.

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Feb 01 2006
The Biggest Secret
By MWC NEWS   

A Review of State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen.

1. The challenges posed to American democracy by secrecy and by unchecked presidential power are the two great themes running through the history of the Iraq war. How long the war will last, who will "win," and what it will do to the political landscape of the Middle East will not be obvious for years to come, but the answers to those questions cannot alter the character of what happened at the outset. .

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Nov 03 2005
Torture
By MWC NEWS   
A Human Rights Perspective
 
A timely and provocative new anthology, TORTURE is the first book to critically assess torture from a global human rights viewpoint. International law has categorically outlawed the practice, yet the global debate around torture—the legality of its use, the extent of its use, its effectiveness—has intensified in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Revelations of torture and degradation at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities have galvanized both proponents and opponents of torture, and underscored how imperative it is to tackle the question head-on. 

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