iraq: secret detention, no recourse

The International Convention for Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, to which Iraq is party, codifies the prohibition on enforced disappearances and, among other things, to prevent, investigate, and prosecute all enforced disappearances. Iraq's new government,..

monthly review

Thanks large part to American, farsightedness, and generosity, Europe was set free from the two forms of tyranny that devastated our in Nazism and Communism.” The facts are that in both world wars Washington was ally of last resort. ..

cleric backs interim government

Meanwhile at United Nations, Iraq's minister said yesterday that Iraq's incoming government needs U.S.-led multinational force to stay to prevent war and insisted on command of Iraqi forces and authority over security matters... ..

the next world order

The senior official approvingly mentioned a 1999 study of casualty aversion by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, which argued that the “mass public” is much less casualty-averse than the military or the civilian élite believes; for example, the study showed that the public would tolerate..

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