The West’s Garbage Dump
A Dirty Job A 2007 episode of 60 Minutes reported a story of how American ships are decommissioned and dismantled by going to Bangladesh and shoring up, permanently. Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries…
International Law
Martial Law in North America?
It’s possible, or at least NORTHCOM says so in a news release this month. …Americans can be assured the U.S. military is ready and capable of responding to attacks within the United States. But critics…
Canada Still Complicit in DU
Colin Powell recently denied the harmful effects of Depleted Uranium (DU), which has been used in every major American conflict in recent years. InformationLiberation reports, Members of WeAreChange Ohio confronted former Secretary of State Colin…
You can Build Them, But They Won’t Always Come
The Galloping Beaver has an interesting post on a modern CIA-ops gone bad. Millions of dollars were spent setting up fake businesses. In Europe. To fight terrorism. Because investment bankers are behind it all, of…
Bush Pardons Himself for Torture
The House just passed a bill that pardons all members of the U.S. administration for any torture for detainees. Elizabeth Holtzman, former NY congresswoman, explains, Avoiding prosecution under the War Crimes Act has been an…
Canada puts US on Torture Watchlist
The Canadian Foreign Ministry produced a training manual that has Guantanamo Bay on its sites of torture spots. The document goes further, and lists the U.S. as a potential site for torture, along with Iran,…
Protestors Invade the Supreme Court (of America)
Jonathan Kleiman of the Legal Intellects blog and of Queen’s University Law, recently reported a story about a number of anti-torture protesters that invaded the Supreme Court and were arrested. Kleiman says, Those who were…
Real Blood Diamonds
After a 6-month delay, the trial of former President, Charles Taylor, has resumed in The Hague. A descendant of African-American slaves that migrated to Liberia and educated in the U.S., Taylor is accused of trading…
Black Anti-Gun Control
Opposition to gun control is typically associated with lobby groups such as the NRA, largely comprised of white Conservatives. Some bloggers suggest that NRA even put out this publication, described as depicting …people of Asian,…
The ICC and the DRC
Part of the International Conflicts series Introduction In 2004, the International Criminal Court started to get involved in the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when it was referred to the Prosecutor of…
2007 International Privacy Ranking
Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center recently published their 2007 privacy rankings of the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 70 countries. Prof. Simon Fodden of Osgoode Hall comments on Slaw, Clearly intended…
Anver Emon on Honour Killings
Anver M. Emon of the UofT Faculty blog shares an editorial he published in the National Post recently on the case of Aqsa Pervez. As a professor of Islamic law, I teach my students about…