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The repugnant case of Omar Khadr

No issue symbolised the moral bankruptcy of the Bush Administration’s post 9/11 offensive more graphically than Guantanamo Bay.  And when Barak Obama promised last year to repair the damage done to American prestige because of the Bush Administration’s mistreatment of the detainees at Gitmo, his lofty rhetoric fell on fertile ground.  But last Friday’s package [...]

Lessons for Libs in US Republican's shift

The decision by USA Republican Senator Arlen Specter to switch to the Democrats is a huge fillip for President Obama, and indeed for everyone who was worried that legislation that could be crucial to the futures of all of us relating to climate change, the economy or other important international matters might be stalled by Republican [...]