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Friends
Four years after the White House counsel derided the Geneva Conventions as “quaint”, the Department of Defense has embraced them as a guideline for handling enemy combatants. But does it mark a major shift in policy, or more of the same? Also: friendship from Aristotle to Central Perk, and how globalization connects extremists.
» Read the July 2006 Pentagon document committing to the application of the Geneva Conventions (via NY Times)
» Read then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez' 2002 memo on the Geneva Conventions (via MSNBC)
» Read the July 2006 Pentagon document committing to the application of the Geneva Conventions (via NY Times)
» Read then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez' 2002 memo on the Geneva Conventions (via MSNBC)
Conventional Thinking
Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate
- on the Bush Administration's change of attitude towards the Geneva Conventions
» Read Emily Bazelon's articles in Slate
- on the Bush Administration's change of attitude towards the Geneva Conventions
» Read Emily Bazelon's articles in Slate
Geneva Conventional Wisdom
Scott Sullivan, attorney at Allen and Overy representing 11 Guantanamo Bay detainees.
- on the Defense Department's embrace of the Geneva Conventions
Listen to WNYC Reporter Marianne McCune's
"Guantanamo Diaries" on Allen & Overy's efforts to provide legal representation for detainees ...
- on the Defense Department's embrace of the Geneva Conventions
Listen to WNYC Reporter Marianne McCune's
"Guantanamo Diaries" on Allen & Overy's efforts to provide legal representation for detainees ...
Strength In Numbers
Arjun Appadurai, John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences and senior advisor for Global Initiatives at The New School and author, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Duke University Press, 2006)
- on how globalization connects extremists around the world
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- on how globalization connects extremists around the world
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What Are Friends For?
Joseph Epstein, writer and author, Friendship: An Expose (Houghton Miflin)
- investigates the appeal of friendship from Aristotle to Seinfeld
» Friendship (Houghton Mifflin, outdated)
- investigates the appeal of friendship from Aristotle to Seinfeld
» Friendship (Houghton Mifflin, outdated)
Bombay Dreams
Pankaj Mishra, author, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond (Farrar, Strauss and Grioux 2006)
- shares his reaction to yesterday's train bombings
also,
Indian and Indian Americans share their reaction to the bombings
» archive of ...
- shares his reaction to yesterday's train bombings
also,
Indian and Indian Americans share their reaction to the bombings
» archive of ...
Geneva Conventional Wisdom
Scott Sullivan, attorney representing clients imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay speaks about the Geneva Conventions on The Brian Lehrer Show on 07/12/2006..
Strength in Numbers
Arjun Appadurai, author of "Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger," speaking on the Brian Lehrer Show, 7/12/2006.
Required Reading: July 12, 2006
In which: Indiana is ranked #1 in terror targets, the White House eats it words over the Geneva Conventions, the MTA shelves plan for more conductor-less trains, two Newark cops lose jobs over blog posts, and a former Mrs. Giuliani gives relationship advice.