March 11, 2022 By: Alfred de Zayas
Law and punishment are very different concepts and should not be unduly amalgamated. The function of law is the codification of norms, definition of rights and obligations, creation of mechanisms for monitoring and enforcement. Law must be both preventive and curative. It should be proactive and not merely reactive.
COUNTERPUNCH: Reflections on Law and Punishment
The report established that during the last quarter of 2019 under the coup-installed regime, mass human rights violations occurred including the violation of the right to life, personal integrity, freedom, personal security, judicial guarantees and due process, freedom of expression, freedom of association, among others
Report confirms human rights violations committed after 2019 coup d’état in Bolivia
By Nick Corbishley – naked capitalism – March 1, 2022
As the world is transfixed by the escalating war in Ukraine and its economic fallout, big moves concerning vaccine passports are taking place behind closed doors.
Are Vaccine Passports About to Go Totally Global?
The neocons and their allies might be making it happen
Who Wants War with Russia?
BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER | BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE | FEBRUARY 26, 2022
One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy. The next day I’m reading headlines about how the CDC has drastically altered its advice on how to deal with Covid.
The CDC Discovers Actual Public Health, Just in Time
The US, EU and Nato reneging on promises made to Russia lays at the crux of present tensions, writes JOHN WIGHT
NATO’s an obstacle to peace in Europe and elsewhere
Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump’s biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.
The Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker
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When protests aren’t progressive
The best way for progressives to prevent such sentiments from snowballing into a movement that actually could win power is to take an approach rooted in humility. Talk to the protesters, listen to their grievances, promise to discuss options for addressing them with elected and appointed officials.
Such humility will come naturally to a politician hoping to represent the broadest possible coalition of working-class voters. It will appear impossible to someone convinced that every citizen of a certain socioeconomic stratum ought rightly to be an automatic ally and contributor to the present-day iteration of the progressive political project.
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