Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Nov 24, 2008	Can George W. Bush 'Self-Pardon' Himself?
By Stephen M Brown: There's no definitive legal consensus on whether a president can pardon himself. But Bush may well give the theorists an answer. Charlotte Dennett promised that, if she won her race for attorney general of Vermont in the recent election, she would prosecute...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 22, 2008	The Russian Orthodox Church
Reflections of Fidel: IT is a spiritual force. In the critical moments of Russian history it played an important role. When the Great Russian War began after the treacherous Nazi attack, Stalin turned to it in support of the workers and peasants that the October Revolution made owners of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008	Cannon fodder for the market
Reflections of Fidel: PERHAPS some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl’s message setting Cuba’s position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement. ...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008	THE POWERLESS POWERS
Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  May 25, 2008	Martí’s Immortal Ideas
Reflections of Fidel: JUST a few days ago, a friend of mine sent me the text of a report from Gallup, the well-known U.S. opinion pollster. I started to leaf through the material with the natural lack of confidence given the lying and hypocritical information usually used against our...... [view]

Posted By:  bluequack Posted On:  Feb 9, 2008	The First Victim of Child Soldiers
Artwork by Rafaela Tasca and Brazilian cartoonist Latuff... [view]

Posted By:  bluequack Posted On:  Dec 26, 2007	Child soldier recruitment up in Congo - Once Again
Recent fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo has led to a surge in child soldier recruitment, the charity Save the Children says. Boys and girls are being abducted by armed groups in record numbers to act as soldiers, spies, porters and sex slaves in eastern Congo, the charity said Monday....... [view]

Posted By:  bluequack Posted On:  Oct 31, 2007	Burma Army Recruiting Children
The Burmese army is forcibly recruiting children to cover gaps left by a lack of adult recruits, says a report by a US-based human rights organisation. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says children as young as 10 are beaten or threatened with arrest to make them enlist. The report, entitled "Sold...... [view]

Posted By:  bluequack Posted On:  Sep 17, 2007	Girl Soldiers: The Forgotten Victims of War
The article by Kim Sengupta Girls make up almost half of the 300,000 children involved in wars, according to a report which says they are abducted, raped and often used as currency among fighters. In the violent, desperate world of child soldiers, they are the most vulnerable, subjected to...... [view]

Posted By:  bluequack Posted On:  Sep 15, 2007	Child Soldiers in Europe
Less than 1% of the government armed forces are child soldiers. Apress release by army counter-intelligence at the headquarters of the Combined Group of Federal forces in the North Caucasus reported the existence of 1,500 teenage suicide bombers who were being trained at a centre in the...... [view]

Posted By:  bluequack Posted On:  Sep 15, 2007	Child Soldiers in Latin America
There has been a law in Colombia since 1999 that forbids the use of child soldiers in the Colombian army. This means that only adults serve in the army and also that the conscripts are at least 18 years of age. Further, in January 2001, the United Nations Treaty of the Rights of the Child was...... [view]