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36,000 Egyptians have been arrested for protests

mercredi 2 juillet 2014 à 14:00

36,000 Egyptians have been arrested for protests since the coup against Morsi.

Protester adds labels to dresses

mardi 1 juillet 2014 à 14:00

A clever unknown protester added labels to dresses in a store, saying "'Degrading' sweatshop conditions" and "Forced to work exhausting hours".

The law proposed in this article would be a good step forward, but really we should make the marketing companies that subcontract manufacturing responsible for the working conditions of their whole supply chain.

They should also have to register their subcontractors to all levels, which will have the salutary effect of impeding them from changing their supply chains so often.

Lego-Shell marketing arrangement

mardi 1 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Greenpeace urges Lego to drop a marketing arrangement with Shell.

Kiribati prepares for sea rise

mardi 1 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Kiribati has purchased high ground in Fiji as a place to move once the islands of Kiribati are swamped by rising seas.

Does the US government have plans to move the graves of the US Marine cemeteries on Tarawa Atoll?

I don't think there is any intrinsic importance in how corpses are treated (including my own, after my death), but soldiers tend to consider this very important. Many US veterans are right-wing and some are global-heating denialists. This question might offer a way to make them face the facts.

Guantanamo kangaroo courts stuck

mardi 1 juillet 2014 à 14:00

Obama's military kangaroo courts for Guantanamo prisoners are getting stuck on the issue of how the CIA tortured the defendants.

Some of those people may be guilty of real crimes, but if the US can't give them a fair trial because the US tortured them, it has to let them go. Let that be a lesson to us: no torture!

Some fraction of those released may fight the US, but we should not overestimate the importance of that. Violent Islamist groups have thousands of members; a few more won't make much difference. What mainly affects their strength is their ability to recruit.

Guantanamo serves them very well as a recruiting tool, and so does the US refusal to face justice for its torture. Try as they might, a few ex-prisoners won't be able to do the US the sort of harm that the US does to itself.

The US must stop betraying what it stands for, so that it can inspire honest friendship and support around the world, instead of inspiring people to join Islamist fanatic groups.