No Comment — July 17, 2009, 3:08 pm
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Elsewhere on the web, I discuss the change in command in Afghanistan in terms of the concept of “collateral damage” for National Public Radio here.
And I offer a review of the recently concluded trial in United States v. Bourke, a major effort by the Justice Department to recast the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by prosecuting the victim of a spectacular fraud involving an attempt to privatize the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, at Oil and Glory, the website of BusinessWeek’s foreign affairs editor, Steve LeVine.
More from Scott Horton:
No Comment — April 12, 2013, 11:11 am
A new report from Seton Hall University exposes government surveillance of attorney-client conversations
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Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel-Palestine peace process
No Comment, Six Questions — February 4, 2013, 9:00 am
Alex Gibney on his documentary investigating the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of child sex-abuse cases
Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city
Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device:
A reduction in distrust toward atheists was documented among pious Canadians who are reminded of the Vancouver police.
A Missouri cinema apologized for hiring an actor dressed in body armor and carrying a fake rifle to appear at a screening of Iron Man 3.
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