When my husband served in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago, I was bitter. I was being left home with two small children while my soldier husband answered the call of duty to fight the Vietnamese in their homeland in defense of our country.
Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald on FISA
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald on FISA Vote, Executive Power and Prosecuting White House Officials for War Crimes
We host a discussion with Cass Sunstein, an informal adviser to Barack Obama and an outgoing University of Chicago Law School professor who has been described as “the nation’s most-cited legal scholar,” and Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional law attorney and political and legal blogger for Salon.com.
Respect World Court Order to Halt Texas Executions
President George W. Bush should publicly urge Texas to respect the order of the International Court of Justice and stop the executions of five Mexican nationals, Human Rights Watch said.
In last Sunday’s edition, the New York Times carried an article about pro-China advertisements that Western companies are running in China during the Olympic Games. McDonald’s is running a “Cheer for China” ad. Pepsi, which painted its blue cans red for the games, is advertising, “Go Red for China.” According to the Times, “The campaigns for Western companies are part of an advertising blitz the likes of which this ostensibly communist nation has never seen.”
Barack Obama has met Palestinian leaders at the government's headquarters in Ramallah, continuing a visit to the Middle East aimed at boosting the foreign-policy credentials of the presumed Democratic presidential candidate.
Iran's president has said that his country will not bend on its uranium enrichment programme, despite proposals by world powers aimed at bringing an end to Tehran's sensitive nuclear programme.
The first trial at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay has opened with the former driver of Osama bin Laden accused of knowing key details of the September 11 attacks and the judge declaring that evidence from "coercive" interrogations would not be allowed.
Spanish police have arrested nine suspected members of the Basque separatist group Eta, dismantling its most active cell which is blamed for a string of bomb attacks and killing a civil guard, Spain's interior minister has said.
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The US treasury secretary has said that the US economy faces further uncertainty unless its housing crisis eases.
Spanish police have arrested nine suspected members of the Basque separatist group Eta, dismantling its most active cell which is blamed for a string of bomb attacks and killing a civil guard, Spain's interior minister has said.
