On February 8, the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) raided the Seoul and Incheon offices of the South Korean NGO, Solidarity for Peace and Reunification in Korea (SPARK) for violating the National Security Law (NSL). The NIS also searched the homes of two of SPARK’s leadership, confiscated their notebooks and cell phones, andshut down the server of its website, Jinbo.net.
Issues of territorial sovereignty aside, using drones for human rights surveillance in Syria would never be approved by Russia and China in the UN.
The United States deserves some of the blame for the human-rights disaster that Honduras has become.
That time when they
submerged my head
in water
they did not
not even
one moment
let me
raise it up
to breathe.
Complicated historic grievances between groups or inconvenient timing are no justification to fail to act against genocide.
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (NDAA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by the president on New Year’s Eve of 2011. Activists and other critics charge that the NDAA authorizes the indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens, but supporters counter that the law entails no new powers of detention for the federal government.
In a sense, both sides are right.
Is the cause of disarmament helped if the pro-life movement hitches its wagon to it?
As per tradition in Latin American politics, election season means vicious personal attacks against individuals running for office. In Peru, the 2011 campaign season saw Ollanta Humala of the Peruvian Nationalist Party attacked for his friendship with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, as well as for the legacy of his brother Antauro, currently in prison for leading a failed uprising in January 2005 that left several police officers dead in the Andean town of Andahuaylas.
Thanks to Mike Daisey’s appearance on “This American Life,” denial about Apple’s labor abuses has become impossible.
The United States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia seek regime change in Syria, but Russia does not want to see another country wrested from its orbit.