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Refusal to spy for Israel

mardi 1 avril 2014 à 14:00

Israel told Fadi Al-Qutshan, in Gaza, that to get the medical care he needed he would have to spy for Israel. He refused, and died instead.

This conduct is not a rare exception; it's common practice.

Ukraine's neo-Nazis

mardi 1 avril 2014 à 14:00

Ukraine's Inconvenient Neo-Nazis.

Voter suppression laws

mardi 1 avril 2014 à 14:00

Republicans are imposing new kinds of voter suppression laws in swing states, designed to hamper poor, minority and old people from voting.

Japanese whaling

mardi 1 avril 2014 à 14:00

The International Court of Justice ruled that Japan's "scientific" whaling is commerce, not research, and ordered Japan to stop.

US imprisonment without trial

mardi 1 avril 2014 à 14:00

Obama asked the Supreme Court not to consider the case of citizens suing to invalidate the law that authorize the US military to imprison Americans without trial.

The appeals court ruled in favor of that provision; unless the Supreme Court overturns it, no one in the US really has any human rights, since the state can take them all away at any time.

The US government refuses to say whether it has already imprisoned people in this way.