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William Fisher: Remember Rendition?
Monday, 27 February 2006, 9:57 am | William Fisher
A few months ago - particularly after The Washington Post broke the story of secret U.S. "black sites" in Eastern Europe - it would have been difficult to pick up a newspaper or watch television without hearing the words "extreme rendition". More >>
A Tale Of Two Gitmos: Where Was The MSM?
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 10:24 am | William Fisher
Last June 17, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters, "If you think of the people down there (at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba), these are people, all of whom were captured on a battlefield. They're terrorists, trainers, bomb makers, recruiters, ... More >>
William Fisher: National Security Whistleblowers
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 12:36 am | William Fisher
Find illegal activity in the U.S. national security agency you work for. Report it to your superiors. Get rewarded by being demoted or having your security clearance revoked -- tantamount to losing your career - while those whose conduct you've reported ... More >>
William Fisher: What To Do With The Prisoners?
Friday, 17 February 2006, 11:20 am | William Fisher
Foreign policy and human rights experts appear to agree with a soon-to-be-released United Nations report calling on the U.S. to shut down its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - but most believe that simply closing it misses a larger point: ... More >>
William Fisher: Rising Above Principle
Monday, 13 February 2006, 9:49 pm | William Fisher
Small government is one of the golden tenets of American conservatism. Small government is more efficient. The smaller the government, the more power will be returned to the people. The smaller the government, the freer our people will be of bureaucratic ... More >>
William Fisher: Holocaust Denial In The ME
Thursday, 19 January 2006, 3:26 pm | William Fisher
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, launched a media tsunami when he declared the Holocaust a myth. More >>
William Fisher: Bush's New Multilateralism
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:50 am | William Fisher
With the billions of dollars appropriated by the U.S. for Iraqi reconstruction almost all spent, Japan, Australia and other nations in President George W. Bush's "coalition of the willing" are likely to be asked to shoulder much of the burden for funding ... More >>
William Fisher: Bush At Year-End
Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 1:14 pm | William Fisher
My editors, as well as many friends around the world, have been urging me to write something about how I think about George W. Bush as 2005 ends and a new year begins. More >>
William Fisher: State Department's Mixed Messages
Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 1:12 pm | William Fisher
Amidst undenied charges that the Pentagon is paying Iraqi journalists to write "good news" stories about the country's progress, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has announced a new international exchange program for journalists named for famed broadcaster ... More >>
Mr. Nour And Political Reform In Egypt
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:01 pm | William Fisher
The U.S. Government, foreign policy experts, newspaper editorial writers and human rights advocates were virtually unanimous in condemning the sentencing last week of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's chief political opponent to a five-year prison ... More >>
Iraq Reconstruction: State In, Pentagon Out
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:54 am | William Fisher
After a thousand days of widely acknowledged failure in the job of rebuilding Iraq, the Department of Defense has quietly been relieved of that responsibility, with the State Department taking over as America's lead reconstruction agency and coordinating ... More >>
William Fisher: Wink, Wink, Nod, Nod
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:42 pm | William Fisher
Washington's characterization of Egypt's recent parliamentary election as another important step on the road to democracy is trumped only by President Hosni Mubarak's cynical demand for a review of the election's widespread violence and voter disenfranchisement. More >>
Remembering Eleanor & the Human Rights Declaration
Monday, 19 December 2005, 3:40 pm | William Fisher
Since Eleanor Roosevelt presented the International Declaration of Human Rights to the United Nations for ratification 37 years ago next week, the world has witnessed - and often ignored -- some of the most egregious rights violations in modern history. More >>
How Do Americans Feel About Torture?
Saturday, 10 December 2005, 2:46 pm | William Fisher
If the Bush Administration listens to the American public, rather than to Sen. John McCain, it needn't be too worried about the issue of torture of suspected terrorists. More >>
The Unintended Consequences Of Fake News
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:20 pm | William Fisher
Congressional leaders who have often touted Iraq's new 'free press' as a sign of progress in that troubled country were angered by the Pentagon's admission last week that it has been planting and paying for Iraqi newspapers to publish 'good news stories' ... More >>
William Fisher: The Price Of Payola News
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:19 pm | William Fisher
Why are we Americans so outraged by the news that money can buy favorable press coverage? Surely it's not that many of us haven't known for years that journalists in poor countries (and a few rich ones as well) are often venal. More >>
William Fisher: Katrina Red Tape
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:19 pm | William Fisher
Three months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans faced a 'town hall' meeting of several hundred displaced constituents - but had few answers to questioners seething with anger, frustration, confusion ... More >>
William Fisher: Forum For The (Distant) Future
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 1:34 pm | William Fisher
A key pillar of the much-vaunted Middle East democracy initiative of President George W. Bush has collapsed - brought down by Egypt's insistence that Arab governments should have more control over grants from a new fund designed to help indigenous ... More >>
William Fisher: Dangerous Denial
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:09 pm | William Fisher
America's newest public diplomacy czarina, Karen Hughes, is in dangerous denial and needs professional help. She believes that how we treat prisoners in the 'global war on terror' is unlikely to have a serious adverse affect on how people think of ... More >>
William Fisher: Good News, Bad News
Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 11:58 am | William Fisher
As George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, questions about how his administration 'sold' the invasion of Iraq to the American people and its treatment of prisoners continue to dog the beleaguered president, stalling his second-term agenda. More >>
