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W. Fisher: Pain Management - A Double Standard?
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 1:06 pm | William Fisher
Two weeks from now, a South Carolina pain management physician will surrender at the Talladega, Alabama, prison to begin serving a 2.5-year sentence for drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. More >>
William Fisher: Blocking Justice
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:18 am | William Fisher
The U.S. Government has once again invoked the "state secrets" privilege, arguing that a public trial of a lawsuit against a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency for abducting and imprisoning a German citizen would lead to disclosure of ... More >>
William Fisher: Can't We Have Any Fun Anymore?
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:15 am | William Fisher
Drat! It sounded so fun. But just as our preschoolers were starting to get excited about this exciting new attraction comes news that it's being shut down. The attraction that's giving our little ones all the grief is called "waterboarding." More >>
William Fisher: Our $2 Billion Leverage
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:03 am | William Fisher
This is a big day for me: I am publicly confessing to agreeing with Max Boot. The often conservative-leaning foreign policy expert from the Council on Foreign Relations wrote last week in the Los Angeles Times, "If Bush wants to show that he is still ... More >>
William Fisher: Defending the Indefensible
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 10:32 am | William Fisher
After years of ignoring the United Nations panel charged with oversight of the Convention Against Torture (CAT) - a centerpiece of international human rights law - the US government turned up at a meeting of the group in Geneva with a delegation of more ... More >>
William Fisher: Remember the Edsel!
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:47 am | William Fisher
Nobel Peace Prize-winner and Iranian human rights advocate and dissident Shirin Ebadi was asked on PBS last week about the $75 million the US State Department intends to spend supporting pro-democracy groups in her country. More >>
Fisher: Let's Hear It for the Voice of Democracy!
Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:24 am | William Fisher
These were messages that needed to be delivered: Russia must stop backsliding on its commitment to democratic reform. It must stop using its oil as a tool of blackmail. Belarus must stop beating peaceful demonstrators, "disappearing" dissidents, and ... More >>
William Fisher: Spinning America's Forgotten War
Friday, 5 May 2006, 12:21 am | William Fisher
This is the conclusion reached in a new report from CorpWatch written by an Afghan-American journalist who returned to her native country to examine the progress of reconstruction. More >>
William Fisher: What Happened to the Good Fight?
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 11:41 am | William Fisher
The juxtaposition of oil, human rights, and the "global war on terror" has exposed a giant fault line in the Bush administration's foreign policy, revealing inconsistency and hypocrisy. More >>
William Fisher: American Bedfellows
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 2:08 pm | William Fisher
President George W. Bush's "Global War on Terror" has produced the unintended consequence of bringing the United States ever-closer to some of the world's most repressive regimes. More >>
William Fisher: Rearranging the Deck Chairs?
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 3:12 pm | William Fisher
So, after seven months and 21 separate post-Katrina hearings, testimony from close to 400 witnesses, and review of more than 800,000 documents, the Senators have thrown up their hands in frustration and disbelief and called for the abolition of FEMA ... More >>
Give Us Huddled Masses - But Not Battered Women
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 3:12 pm | William Fisher
Should the U.S. congress reach agreement on an immigration bill, it is unlikely to include one of the simpler issues in this complex debate: granting asylum to battered women. More >>
William Fisher: "The Worst of the Worst"
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 1:36 pm | William Fisher
As recently as June 2005, he said, despite massive and incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, "If you think of the people down there, these are people, all of whom were captured on a battlefield. They're terrorists, trainers, bomb makers, recruiters, ... More >>
William Fisher: We Can All Agree on This, Right?
Friday, 28 April 2006, 11:17 am | William Fisher
In the unlikely event that our senators and congresspersons come together to pass an immigration bill sometime in this century, it is virtually certain to overlook a heartbreakingly simple humanitarian issue: battered women seeking asylum. More >>
William Fisher: Someone Does Not Mean Anyone
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:44 am | William Fisher
The trial of Zakarias Moussaoui has all the makings of a soap opera. If Kafka wrote soap operas, that is. Consider the cast of characters: A defendant who alternately proclaimed his innocence and boasted of his guilt. More >>
William Fisher: Whistleblowing Past the Graveyard
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:38 am | William Fisher
After the firing of the CIA officer who leaked the secret prisons story to Dana Priest of the Washington Post, one of the retired-general-talking-heads who regularly appears on cable news these days weighed in with advice on the many avenues this ... More >>
William Fisher: Getting Closer To The Top?
Monday, 24 April 2006, 1:52 pm | William Fisher
In less than a month, we may finally get to hear from the army general who ordered commanders at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to "get dogs." More >>
Anti-Terrorism Financing Laws Unequally Applied
Friday, 21 April 2006, 11:45 am | William Fisher
A major government watchdog organization is charging that Muslim charities are being summarily shut down for supporting terrorist causes while giant firms such as Halliburton are receiving the full protections of American law for allegedly breaking U.S. government ... More >>
William Fisher: Words To Ponder
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 1:48 pm | William Fisher
I recently e-mailed Neil Hicks, the director of international programs for Human Rights First, seeking his thoughts on a new poll of the U.S. public that shows rapidly declining support for President Bush's pledge to spread democracy throughout the ... More >>
A Dilemma in Search of a Policy (Again)
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 11:57 am | William Fisher
Going to war is always a last resort - only when all avenues of diplomacy have failed. Sound familiar? It should. Because that was the mantra of the Bush administration for well over a year before we invaded Iraq. More >>
