Links http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/11/france_after_th.htmlhttp://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/11/why_is_france_b.htmlhttp://www.thenation.com/doc/20020513/ireland This past week, the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro ran an opinion piece that was a rather surprisingly acute diagnosis…
Doug Ireland
Saturday night was the 10th day of the spreading youth riots that have much of France in flames — and it was…
The editor of a respected women’s magazine in Afghanistan has been sentenced to two years in jail for “blasphemy” after the judge…
The group OMB Watch has issued an urgent appeal about a new Republican gag rule restricting the ability of non-profit organizations to…
The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent — the great British journalist Robert Fisk — has been banned from entering the United…
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When a federal district court ruled last week in favor of President Bush in the case of Jose Padilla — the only…
If the Bush administration brokered a deal in Occupied Iraq to enshrine Islamic law as the guiding principle of the new Iraqi…
The latest dismal news about the Islamic Republic of Iran’s campaign of repression against homosexuality comes from the city of Arak, where…
As worldwide protests are taking place against the death penalty and criminalization of homosexuality in Iran in the wake of the hanging…