The Ethics & Language of Lockdown. How the intended solution became the problem (tags)
Long term restrictions like lockdowns are self-defeating...It was inevitable that, at some point, issues of intergenerational justice would be raised, given there is only so much you can ethically ask the majority of people to sacrifice to protect a small minority. Such unfairness is an under-appreciated ethical problem.
"We must look at the side-effects" (tags)
"Restricting basic rights is no small matter, and it is the duty of politics to restore their exercise as soon as the infection situation permits." (Lockdown consequences: daycare centers and schools to open) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Born Free, Die Free, L’Hiyot Am Chofshi (tags)
Liberty & Freedom vs. Covid-19 Lockdowns, Vaccinations, Power Grabs
Jonathan Pollard for President of Israel (tags)
Pollard For President In Israel, Now That He's Home.
Pollard for President of Israel (tags)
Pollard for President of Israel, Give Him Justice
The future of humanity and the earth require a break from the rule of capital and the security state.... The political public is now at least beginning to discuss again how to deal with the constitution and fundamental rights. It remains to be seen what will become of them.
All Government Officials can be Sued for Actions Outside their Authority – Robert Tronge (tags)
We have the court saying that restrictions unrelated to the crime are unconstitutional, and if that is so for the court then it would also follow through that it is unconstitutional for the parole and probation department to impose them. It would also follow through that it is unconstitutional to pass laws imposing them. For example residency restrictions against a person who is involved in child pornography, or for that matter, a person involved in incest. Residency restrictions would only seem to apply to people who were strangers to the victim.
US Official Insults Cubans (tags)
Cuba
Israel: Human Rights Abuser Writ Large (tags)
Israel
Hints of official Trans-Pacific Partnership resistance (tags)
“Free trade” agreements don’t have anything to do with trade; they have everything to do with tightening the grip of corporate dominance over every aspect of life. It is precisely to minimize potential pressures from social movements that the TPP is being negotiated in complete secrecy.
Israel's War on Fishing Rights (tags)
Israel
Chicago Militarized for NATO (tags)
anti-war
Gaza: Isolated Under Siege (tags)
Gaza
BTL:Palestinian Women's Center Faces Many Obstacles to Provide Technical Training to Those (tags)
Interview with Jihan Nasser, women's center computer technology trainer, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Constitutionally Protected Symbolic Speech (tags)
class war
Gaza's Suffocating Siege (tags)
Palestine
Israel Denies Gazans Access to Their Own Land and Waters (tags)
Ruthless Israeli repression
OCHA's Special Focus on Occupied Palestine (tags)
horrific Gaza conditions under siege
BTL:Abortion Restrictions in Health Care Reform Bills Could Derail Passage (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
A UN Special Focus on Gaza Under Siege (tags)
Israel's slow motion genocide
Sign petition to lift travel restrictions on Palestinian journalist (tags)
Please sign this petition to help lift travel restrictions placed in this palestinian journalist.
Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank (tags)
West Bank repression.
Israel Told to Tackle West Bank Plight (tags)
Israel is under concerted international pressure to give swift agreement to specific measures to improve Palestinian life. Israel is criticized for not doing more to boost the Palestinian economy.
Israeli Oppression in Hebron (tags)
A case history.
Trump the US Constitution (tags)
Listen to Scott Ritter who has been well vindicated about everything he said before the Iraq War. He believes The US will go to war with Iran this Summer, and he explains why and how he knows. He also explains how it is on behalf of Israel not America. Both parties are for this war and Bush will ignore the will of the people as will the congress.
U.S. urges restrictions on anti-vehicle mines (tags)
Is this the same US government that illegally invaded Iraq and Afganistan??? Oh I get it they want to limit 3rd world countries from materials from gettin materials that could be used to make IEDs which are the main cause of US deaths in Iraq.
Hacker cracks iPod, iTunes restrictions (tags)
A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.
Many communities restricting where churches can be located (tags)
In government there are only two important questions. Who are we going to shake down for the money? And who are we going to give the money to? This releates to the first question.
Both inside Israel and in the international community, many people wait and watch to see if President Beinisch and her two Justice colleagues will have the courage to uphold international law and basic common decency and justice and restore Mordechai Vanunu's right to his basic freedom of speech and movement. The result of this appeal will indeed give us an indication of the future strength of Israeli justice for those who go to ask for its help. We wait in hope that we may yet see JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM.
Cuban women in Miami to demand their right to travel to the island without restrictions (tags)
On Saturday, July 22, starting at 10:30 a.m., outside the Torch of Friendship in Las Palomas Park on Biscayne Boulevard and Second Street N.E. in downtown Miami, these women, resident in this city, will hold their protest to express their disagreement with the restrictions imposed by the White House limiting their visits to Cuba to once every three years.
Cuban women in Miami to demand their right to travel to the island without restrictions (tags)
(English/Spanish) FOR the fifth time in the last 10 weeks, the Association of Christian Women in Defense of the Cuban Family is organizing a demonstration to demand that the government of George W. Bush respects their right to travel to Cuba and visit their families without restrictions.
US Restrictions Affect Sales to Cuba (tags)
US Restrictions Affect Sales to Cuba
Urgent Press release from from Rayna Moss in Israel (tags)
Further punishing the Whistleblower = Democracy At Its Most Dismal and Repressed Please tell Israel to honor the basic freedoms and rights of a free man in democatic society
Arresting Vanunu While Burying Arafat (tags)
"Mr. Vanunu, who is a Christian and who claims his faith profoundly directed and sustained him during the worse of his imprisonment, gives much credit to the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ."
BTL:Defying President Bush, House Passes Legislation Overturning His... (tags)
...New Trade, Travel Restrictions on Cuba ~ Interview with Alvaro Fernandez, president of the Cuban American Commission for Family Rights, conducted by Between the Lines' Denise Manzari
Jewish Lessons on the Environment (tags)
Shabbat is a holy covenant among Jews, but it can also be a holy grail for environmentalists.
Democracy or oligarchy? (tags)
Cuba's government is the only one in the world today that is publicly standing up to the neoconservative ideology of the New World Order. Although many Third World governments apparently agree with and support the Cubans, they seem unwilling at this point to risk the capital disinvestment which would follow taking an independent path to development. There are enormous natural resources in the Third World and billions of possible workers and consumers.
Natural gas prices aren't going to get better any time soon , and could seriously effect the stability of the US economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate on Wednesday. And to nobody's surprise, Republicans have been on the move to slash natural gas prices by rolling back environmental restrictions.
World cracks down on Big Tobacco (tags)
To slow the spread of smoking, especially in poor nations, where smoking rates are soaring, the World Health Organization in Geneva voted for unprecedented and potentially deep restrictions on tobacco products.
Our Patriotic Duty to the International Court (tags)
Its time we patriots did our duty and sent the Bush crime family to the International Court
Billionaires at the Galleria (tags)
Mall security showed up, but everything remained pretty calm. Maybe the threat of antiterrorism laws are on the activist's mind. Photo by Mike Snow.