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Starr: Germany and France Conflicts with Group and Collective Rights for the Minority Populations
Nov 12, 2009
In What Manner Liberalism in Both Germany and France Conflicts with Group and Collective Rights for the Minority Populations Residing in Those Countries Preface Scholars involved in both the study and application of human rights, expend many painstaking hours debating whether some human rights should take pre-eminence over others. This long-lived debate over the primacy of human rights has continually failed to resolve itself. The scholar of human rights will find that different groups and persons around the globe will have divergent conceptions about which human rights are the most important to them. The distinct conception of human rights that any particular group, culture, or person claims is the most appropriate for them, is not always the most appropriate conception of human rights for other groups, cultures, and persons in the world. Analyzing certain variables will assist the human rights scholar in developing a particular conception of human rights that will be the most appropriate for one of the many groups, cultures, and people living in the world. Such variables might include, but are not limited to e.g., geographical location, age, culture, gender, social standing in society, and religion among others. The many people living in Sub-Saharan Africa who are going to die this week from either starvation or disease would most likely not find it comforting to know that the President of their country just adopted a liberal democratic constitution giving them the civil and political right to vote. Their new liberal, individual, civil and political right to vote will neither feed them nor will it help them to survive; since they will not live long enough to enjoy their new liberal, individual, civil and political right to vote, it is worthless to them. What they really need right now are the basic human needs that both Shue and Nordahl speak of. It is only after their government gives them the human right to: Food, shelter, physical security, and medical care, that they can return to good health and be able to enjoy their liberal, individual right to vote. Inversely, if you are a multi-millionaire living in upper class America, the importance of securing the basic right to food and physical security probably will not be at the top of your priority list. Multi-multimillionaires already possess the necessary capital that they need in order to obtain these privations.
Starr: The Indian National Project
Nov 12, 2009
I. Introduction This paper analyzes several strands of nonwestern Indian nationalist discourse as a response to British colonial subjugation of India and its consequential results. These nonwestern strands of Indian nationalism and their associated discourse historically and sociologically evolved in reaction to the British colonization of India. This paper analyzes both the failures and successes of the Indian national project of modern state formation within a distinct theoretical framework. This framework measures the extent to which nonwestern Indian nationalism in response to British colonial subjugation required certain liberally tolerant civic/political and social/economic equitable reforms to be incorporated into it in order to construct a liberated and tolerant modern multicultural state. The reason for its failure is primarily due to nonwestern Indian nationalism and its discourse being based upon an extremely exclusionary national theoretical framework. In other words nonwestern Indian nationalism and its discourse was premised primarily on Hinduism. Therefore, nonwestern Indian nationalism failed to imaginea manner in which India's numerous, diversified, non-Hindu, culturally conceived imagined communitiesand social groupings would also be incorporated into its future equitably.
Starr: Impediments To Peace
Nov 12, 2009
"The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may have been involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations." --------- The North Atlantic Treaty - Article I, (4 April 1949) I. Introduction Insofar as endeavoring objectively to effectuate world peace and perpetual human survival, no first world superpower in the 20th century has invoked greater rhetorical claims waging war is a reasonable means to achieve the eventual end of constructing world peace, than the Untied States of America. This paper critically analyzes this widely held political prescription that “Might Makes Right,” as a means for effectuating Kant’s noble goal of Perpetual Peace, whilst re-examining its continued feasibility into the 21st century. It additionally argues the United States failure to objectively practice the identical high minded human rights political and moral willpower it demands less powerful states' adhere to, seriously damages both United States respectability and credibility before other United Nations member states within the United Nations purview. The conclusion emphasizes wherefore world peace and perpetual human survival will not be achieved unless the United States and its future foreign policy initiatives include objectively practicing customarily accepted international legal norms of the Geneva Convention as well as America subjecting itself as a nation to a newly constructed international criminal court. It hopes that America’s willingness to do so will both remedying the aforementioned credibility issue America now faces at the United Nations as well as ensuring the United States is always viewed as the shining beacon of democracy our Founding Father's envisaged when they arrived at Plymouth Rock.
Starr: The State Scope Of Harry J Shortway's Organized Criminal Tentacles
Nov 12, 2009
NJ Detective Harry Shortway Junior Dares Making A Run For Political Office in Vernon NJ Five vie for three Vernon seats (WARNING TO VOTERS)!! Over a decade ago I began trying to prosecute Harry J Shortway for setting me up to be killed in NJ and , The former Fort Dix, Inspector General, said to me: "Jill, Harry Shortway's affiliations with criminal organizations are much too powerful for me to take on at the state of NJ level; that I need the FBI to handle the scope of such an inquiry." I have proven that Chris Christie has lied about having organized criminal contacts during his hearing on "Capitol Hill." You can thank your Serbian friends for this Jill Starr
Starr: Forgotton and Neglected Evidences Of War Crimes Commiotted Against Serbia During the Bosnian War the ICTY Denies As Evidence In the Karadzic trial
Nov 12, 2009
Kamenica near Zvornik – “Glodjansko brdo”. Exhumation of the bodies of 120 Serbs taken prisoner and killed by the Moslems in December 1992. The families were able to come to recognized and collect the mutilated bodies of their family members. Vlasenica, 30th September 1992.Funeral with religious rites, state and military honours for the massacred Serbs.
Starr: The first concentration camps established in Bosnia and Herzegovina were for Serbs. Following are the pictures of those camps
Nov 12, 2009
CONCENTRATION CAMPS, PRISON AND BROTHELS Coordinator: Mr. Ugljesa Jeremic Editor & translator: Ms. Jill Starr Art director: Mr. Milosh Zorica Publisher: LPC Yugoslavia © 2001 LPC Yugoslavia The arrest, abuse and killing of Serbs in former B&H began in an organized manner in April 1992, immediately after the secession of this former Yugoslav republic. The combined Moslem and Croat forces resumed the brutal and bloodthirsty practices of their Ustashi forefathers in the 11 World War, but now on an even more hideous scale. The truth about the sufferings of the Serbs in the Croatian and Moslems prisons and concentration camps has not been able to penetrate to the world public either through the foreign media or through the official representatives of foreign countries, although they were duly informed about it. However documents have been collected on the aggression of the Republic of Croatia's (approx. 60,000 strong) armed forces against the Serb nation in B&H and on the individual suffering and collective disaster of the Serbs in the Croatian-Moslem controlled areas. Only the Serbs in the FR of Yugoslavia and the diaspora have understood their catastrophic position. Countless appeals have been sent to them from the Republic of Srpska and the Republic of Serbian Krajina to understand and help in spreading the truth about this new tragedy for the Serb nation. REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA PRESIDENCY
Starr: Two Decades Of Shameful American Political Exposes
Nov 12, 2009
Jill Starr Grades America On Human Rights (Report) 1990-2009
Starr: Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court
Nov 12, 2009
Irrefutable Proof ICTY Is Corrupt Court/Irrefutable Proof the Hague Court Cannot Legitimately Prosecute Karadzic Case http://lpcyu.instablogs.com/entry/nato-says-the-hague-tribunal-or-icty-belongs-to-nato- truth-bites-for-te-hague-lately/ http://picasaweb.google.com/lpcyusa/ViewMyHagueInternationalCriminalCourtPreparat oryDocumentsFromThe2001UnitedNations# (The Documentary Secret United Nations ICC Meeting Papers Scanned Images) This legal technicality indicates the Hague must dismiss charges against Dr karadzic and others awaiting trials in the Hague jail; like it or not. Unfortunately for the Signatures Of the Rome Statute United Nations member states instituting the ICC & ICTY housed at the Hague, insofar as the, Radovan Karadzic, as with the other Hague cases awaiting trial there, I personally witnessed these United Nations member states openly speaking about trading judicial appointments and verdicts for financial funding when I attended the 2001 ICC Preparatory Meetings at the UN in Manhattan making the iCTY and ICC morally incapable trying Radovan Karazdic and others.
Starr: Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator
Nov 12, 2009
What It’s Like to Chill Out With Whom the Rest of the World Considers As The Most Ruthless Men in the World : Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about. http://lpcyu.instablogs.com/entry/updated-edition-of-mladic-karadzic-book/ (Read My Chill-Out Book In Full For Free Here)
Shapiro: Witness in Palestine
May 09, 2009
Composed of Anna's photographs and writings, Witness in Palestine documents her eight months working with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank, documenting human rights abuses and supporting Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent resistance against the Occupation. Meet Munira, who has lost her freedom and land to the Wall that encages her home and family. Meet Hessa, whose village is separated from the nearest hospital by a checkpoint that is closed all night long. Meet Rafat, whose warm smile belies the war zone that his body attests to. Meet Omar, who has chosen the path of nonviolent resistance after six months imprisonment without charge and the losses of his best friend, cousin, and brother. Meet the people of Palestine and the Israeli and international volunteers supporting their nonviolent movement for freedom.
Seymour: The Liberal Defence of Murder
Apr 14, 2009
In this critical intervention, Richard Seymour unearths the history of liberal justifications for empire, showing how savage policies of conquest -- including genocide and slavery -- have been retailed as charitable missions. From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Seymour argues that the colonial tropes of 'civilization' and 'progress' still shape liberal pro-war discourse, and still conceal the same bloody realities.
Street: The Empire's New Clothes
Sep 01, 2008
Many Americans believe Barack Obama represents a hopeful future for America. But does he also reflect the American politics of the past? This book offers the broadest and best-informed understanding on the meaning of the “Obama phenomenon” to date.
Schechter: Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal
Aug 19, 2008
DANNY SCHECHTER, "The News Dissector" has spent decades as a truth teller in the media, with leading media companies and as an independent filmmaker with the award-winning independent company Globalvision. A graduate of Cornell and the London School of Economics, Schechter was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a multiple Emmy Award winner at ABC News, where he was among the first to cover the S&L crisis. In 2007, his film IN DEBT WE TRUST wasthe first to expose Wall Street's connection to subprime loans, predicting the economic crisis that this book investigates. Schechter is a blogger, editor of Mediachannel.org, and author of nine books. He has reported from 53 countries, and lives in Gotham. He owns no derivatives or tranches.
Scipes: Rethinking Venezuelan Politics
Jul 28, 2008
An excellent, in-depth analysis of the situation in Venezuela, including an excellent analysis of Hugo Chavez and the political forces he has stimulated.
Scott: The Essential Rosa Luxemburg: Reform or Revolution and The Mass ...
May 05, 2008
The volume is edited by University of Vermont literature professor Helen Scott and includes several pages of introduction by Scott.
Stiglitz: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the ...
Apr 11, 2008
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. W.W. Norton
Sjömark: Globalization and its discontents
Mar 05, 2008
A description of IMF- and World bank-policies from the former employee of the world bank. He use the Asian and russian financial crises to explain his critique. And argues, from his own perspective as an economist, that these crises was exacerbated and prolonged by the IMF-policies. Some revealing and interesting facts.
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century
Feb 12, 2008
Instead of simply declaring "another world is possible," the writers in this collection engage with what that world would look like, how it would function, and how our commitment to just outcomes is related to the sort of institutions we maintain. Topics include: participatory economics, political vision, education, architecture, artists in a free society, environmentalism, work after capitalism, and poly-culturalism. The catchall phrase here is "participatory society"-one that is directly democratic and seeks institutional solutions to complex sociological and economic questions.
Schmidt: Disciplined Minds
Dec 18, 2007
"A critical look at salaried professionals and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives" (book's subtitle)
Schmidt: Disciplined Minds
Dec 18, 2007
"A critical look at salaried professionals and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives" (book's subtitle)
