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How to Read the Great Olympics Internet Censorship Drama

Monroe Price | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Australia, Jacque Rogge, Darfur, Tibet, Kevan Gosper, Falun Gong, International Olympic Committee, Amnesty International, Ioc, Olympics, Bocog, Media News
Monroe Price

The IOC has known that China's website policies would be a problem all along and informally sought to manage change.

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China Frees the Internet (Sort Of): Unblocks Amnesty, BBC, RSF Sites

Danwei | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Reporters Without Borders, Censored Internet, Olympics, Censored Web, Bbc, Amnesty International, China Internet Access, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Internet, Media News

The last two days have seen some serious complaints from the international media about China's ongoing Internet censorship, which was supposed to be s...

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Human Rights In China Made Worse By Olympics: Report

Amnesty International | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Olympics, Amnesty International, Amnesty International China, Beijing Olympics, China Human Rights, China, Politics News

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country's human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, accord...

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Susan Sarandon's Double Standards

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights Watch, The U.S., Wmd, West Bank, Unicef, Susan Sarandon, Israel, Palestine, UNICEF Goodwill Abmassador, Leviev's New York Jewlelry, Oxfam, Lev Leviev, Amnesty International, Icj, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Whatever the reason is, Sarandon seems to have forgotten that beyond the names of countries and influential people there are some universal rules we all should respect, and those are international laws.

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Olympic Ambush Watch: Athletes, Tattoos, T-Shirts and Amnesty International

Monroe Price | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Australia, Athletes, Beijing, Darfur, Protest, Censorship, Ioc, Amnesty International, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Rogge, Media News
Monroe Price

If athletes genuinely want to express their opinion, that's fine. But let's not forget, there is also the right not to express an opinion. Athletes should feel no moral obligation to speak out.

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The Loss of Democracy: The Deeper Meaning of McClellan's Revelations of Imperial Deceit & Media Submissiveness

Dan Kovalik | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Al Gore, Democracy, Scott Mcclellan, Halliburton, Inc., George W. Bush, Nbc, Military Commissions Act, Democrats, Election, Barack Obama, Amnesty International, Habeas Corpus, Msnbc, Cnn, White House Press Secretary. Bush Administration, Bechtel, Katie Couric, Sheldon Wolin, Iraq War, Republican Party, Superpower, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

The result of the White House spin, and the complicity of the press corp. in it, has been the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. servicemen and women and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

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Poems from Guantanamo Bay

John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, The Inner Life, Amnesty International, Jumah Al-Dossari, Guantanamo Bay Poetry, Abdul Rashim Muslim Dost, Poems From Guantanamo, Living News
John Lundberg

Jumah al-Dossari's life as an "enemy combatant" began when he was taken into custody by the Pakistani army while trying to leave Afghanistan. Accordi...

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Inside The CIA's Black Sites: One Detainee Reports

BBC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Interrogations, CIA Secret Prisons, Cia, CIA Black Sites, Interrogation Techniques, CIA Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Amnesty International, Black Sites, Politics News

A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. ...

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Letter Writing Saves Lives

Samara O'Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Amnesty International Freedom Writers, Philanthropy, Letter Writing, The Art of Letter Writing, Amnesty International, The Giving Life, Charity Work, Letter Writing Books, Social Activism, Living News
Samara O'Shea

If you're like me, charity work is something you really want to do--someday. Someday when you're older and not working so hard, when you have more tim...

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