category journalism

Inspiring Nonviolent Resistance and CIA Shame

June 7th, 2006 by tim

I’ve been waiting to write my first post on the meyerbros blog about something new and inspiring and all around fabulous. But eventually I realised that my expectations were too high and I’d never get around to doing anything if I didn’t just crank something out. So here’s a tried and true feature that I do semi-regularly over at shoup: mennonot’s news digest. It take’s advantage of one of the things I’ll miss most about London, The Guardian with Breakfast.

From logistics to turning a blind eye: Europe’s role in terror abductions

The big front story today was a very disturbing report from the Council of Europe, laying bare the U.S. use of torture through CIA led extraordinary rendition scheme in Europe, which has apparently been carried out with “the intentional or grossly negligent collusion of the European partners”.
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freedom of the press?

May 25th, 2006 by carl

Remember that?