Not exact matches
Topics included: early reporting
on inaccuracies in the
articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an
article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war
on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem
destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
Speculative media
articles like «3D printing could make anyone a gun maker» make it sound like we're
on the brink of some 3D - printed gun revolution, where anyone could instantaneously just print out a gun capable of mass
destruction.
It is defined in
Article 2 of the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as «any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting
on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical
destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.»
We are deeply concerned that provision is made in
Article 15 of the agreement for American Law once again to be imposed
on Ghana in the settlement of claims arising out of the operations of the base including death,
destruction of property or injury.
A recent
article in Salon affirms what we've been saying about the
destruction that the explosion of poor quality charter schools has wrought
on our communities.
Many
articles and blog posts argue that self - publishing will be the end of the publishing industry, no, the demise of Literature, if not the utter
destruction of Human Civilization and All Life
on Earth.
In May, The New York Times ran an engaging
article entitled An Artwork Turns to Mush, All According to Plan about artist James Grashow and Olympia Stone's film The Cardboard Bernini documenting the artist at work
on a massive sculpture that «embraces its own
destruction.»
The
article focuses
on a fresh promise from Brazil's president to cut the rate of
destruction 72 percent by 2017, in a move seen by many to be related to efforts by some developing countries to get potentially valuable credit for avoided deforestation in whatever climate treaty results from talks next year.
A 2010
article by Guardian columnist George Monbiot sums up the history of Rose's many errors, where the «special investigations writer» first gets it wrong
on the existence of weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq and goes
on to get it wrong
on the consensus of the science
on climate change.
At the risk of descending ever further into off - topic weirdness, here's an
article about the environmental message of the aliens, also mentioning «intelligences beyond the material realm», «ecological
destruction on a scale that threatens the survival of the Earth's living systems» and the fossil fuel lobby.
This is something that should get the attention of every blogger, including Dr. C. From the
article:... Under the TPP's original terms, a country could limit the exposure of the owner of such a website to prison time, or to the seizure and possible
destruction of their server,
on the grounds that by definition their infringement didn't cause any lost sales to the copyright owner.
Lord Justice Thomas explained that in order for the claimant to succeed, it was necessary to show that «the deficiencies in the process were such that the trial he would face
on his return would be so fundamental as to amount to a nullification or
destruction of the very essence of the rights [
Article 6] guaranteed.»
Besides a 1810 old law prohibiting the
destruction of money (Code Pénal,
Article Ancien 439), this law was abrogated
on the 1st of March, 1994.
«While any individual house demolition operation, executed
on the basis of a specific order, will likely fall short of the legal standard of extensive
destruction, -LSB-...] a Policy leading over the years to hundreds or even thousands of house demolition not justified by military necessity, may pass the threshold of wantonness under
Article 8 (2)(a)(iv)».