posted by devonwhittle on Sep 20, 2008
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Opinio Juris
links to an interesting interview with a former Mossad agent who was involved in snatching Eichmann from Argentina in 1960. They were so close to Mengele too, but didn’t have the numbers to successfully catch both.
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posted by devonwhittle on Sep 18, 2008
Very funny post from Gans on “common law driver’s licences” and the freedom of movement under the Charter.
UPMART, an “association for human rights and much, much more” thinks they shouldn’t need to get a driver’s licence to be allowed to drive their care. Fantastic.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 16, 2008
I found
this post by John Fox on ‘Chinese fakery’ quite interesting. I find it too easy to forget the repressive nature of modern day China, and the issues Fox highlights are good reminders that all is not well.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 11, 2008
Rwanda
recently released a report saying that France was very much involved in the 1994 genocide, even directly killing some Tutsis. France
denies any involvement, but there have already been calls for French officials to be charged with war crimes.
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posted by devonwhittle on Aug 10, 2008
Free trade advocates have often used the promise of democracy to encourage free trade at any cost. That is, they believe that wealth will naturally lead to a democratic society, so can justify increasing trade with authoritarian states on the basis that this will lead to demands for better governance from a rising middle class. But is that what we are seeing in China? Robert Reich
questions this doctrine, pointing out the rise of ‘authoritarian capitalism’ in China rather then the ‘democratic capitalism’ hoped for.
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