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Brecher: Fixing the Torture Fix
Znet Article, December, 24 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus--the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. C...
Brecher: War Crimes Made Easy
Znet Article, December, 06 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing death squads, kidnapping people and spiriting them across national borders, and plann...
Brecher: In the Name of Democracy
Znet Article, November, 07 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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[This is an edited excerpt of the Introduction to IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ AND BEYOND edited by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith. Metropolitan Books. www.americanempireproject.com] Brandon Hughey was a ...
Brecher: Attack Syria? Invade Iran? By what Constitution?
Znet Article, October, 20 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 19, Condoleezza Rice was asked whether the Bush administration was planning military action against Syria. She answered, “I don’t think the President ever takes an...
Brecher: Amistad Revisited At Guantanamo?
Znet Article, December, 05 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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In the 1841 Amistad case - vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg's movie "Amistad" - the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human rights and the rule of law must apply to captives who had been seized in Africa and imprisoned in the United ...
Brecher: Discussion Points: Iran Student Protest
Znet Article, July, 08 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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This June, vigilante forces attacked nonviolent Iranian student protesters, charging them on motorcycles and assaulting them with batons, chains, and knives. Instead of protecting the students against the vigilante attacks, the Iranian gover...
Brecher: Terminating the Bush Juggernaut
Znet Article, May, 19 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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Introduction The Bush administration is presenting itself to the world as a juggernaut - a "massive inexorable force that advances irresistibly, crushing whatever is in its path." Bush's National Security Strategy envisions its "war a...
Brecher: Uniting for Peace
Znet Article, April, 02 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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By The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on Iraq. But US opposition has been fierce. The world's "other superpower" -- global public opinion as expressed in the globa...
Brecher: Uniting For Peace
Znet Article, March, 20 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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US LAUNCHES PREEMPTIVE ATTACK AGAINST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY All over the world, governments and civil society groups are proposing to take the US-led attack on Iraq to the UN General Assembly under a procedure known as "Uniting for Peace." Th...
Brecher: What Can The World Do If The US Attacks Iraq?
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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If the US attacks Iraq without support of the UN Security Council, will the world be powerless to stop it? ...
Brecher: Let's Join, Not Fight The Global Coalition Against War
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the coalition of people and countries around the world that is trying to save us from a catastrophic war in Iraq. In the recent UN Security Council debate on Iraq, 60 nations spoke against U.S. policy, and no...
Brecher: The War That Can Be Stopped
Znet Article, October, 22 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As I write, the US Congress has just passed by an overwhelming margin a resolution authorising President Bush to launch a unilateral pre-emptive attack on Iraq . The world needs to understand that there is no force in the US at present able to con...
Brecher: Global Self -Organization From Below
Znet Article, May, 10 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As globalization from above has grown more destructive, the constructive achievements of globalization from below in the two years since the Battle of Seattle have been impressive. An incredible range of movements and concerns that once seemed unr...
