by Robin Kirk | Feb 14, 2008 | Robin Kirk
At 10 pm EST on Friday, February 15, the ABC show 20/20 will be airing an investigation of how plastination companies obtain their bodies. Reported by Brian Ross, the piece is based on a three-month investigation that went “from a body processing factory on the...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 12, 2008 | Robin Kirk
I haven’t yet reproduced in this blog an oped in its entirety. But this one, from Tuesday’s Fayetteville (North Carolina) Observer, is exceptional. Not only is North Carolina America’s most militarized state (per capita); this newspaper includes in...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 12, 2008 | Robin Kirk
A good snippet from this Denzel Washington film, “The Siege,” released in 1998. Here’s the Netflix summary: When U.S. military zealots abduct a Muslim religious leader, constitutional rights are summarily suspended, and martial law is imposed in New...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 11, 2008 | Robin Kirk
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) has died, at the age of 80. He was one of the great voices for human rights in the US Congress. Lantos founded and co-chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, which highlights human rights violations around the world. The only Holocaust...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 8, 2008 | Robin Kirk
The Washington Post’s Al Kamen awarded Mike McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence, his tongue-in-cheek “Loop Award for Water Ballet” in today’s paper. Kamen chose McConnell, a former admiral in the US Navy, for his performance...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 7, 2008 | Robin Kirk
Even as the White House confounds us by standing up yet again for torture, the New York Times reports that the CIA destroyed videotapes of the waterboarding of Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah even as federal judge Leonie Brinkema was seeking information on the case...
