Dear friends and supporters of academic freedom at DePaul,
I am currently writing you with 7 others from the conference room to DePaul President Fr. Dennis Holtschneider’s office, in support of Professors Finkelstein and Larudee. A couple of us are asleep, its kindof cute to see people sleeping underneath the tables (the lights are still on [...]

Students protesting the denial of Norman Finkelstein’s and Mehrene Larudee’s tenure.
Sitting-in at DePaul President Holtschneider’s office. Demanding tenure for Norman Finkelstein and Mehrene Larudee.
Students arrived this morning at DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider’s office to protest the denial of tenure to Dr. Norman Finkelstein, the controversial scholar of Middle East politics, and Dr. Mehrene Larudee, the [...]

Doubts emerge over Russia’s defence shield proposal
EU Observer
08.06.2007 - 17:43 CET | By Renata Goldirova
Available at: http://euobserver.com/843/24232
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The head of NATO has welcomed Moscow’s apparent backing down from its Cold War rhetoric over the US plan to place an anti-missile shield in central Europe, but also cautiously questioned Moscow’s offer to use [...]

Awarding Gold Medal to Former President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan in Recognition of Service to Nation
Statement of HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS

Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to H.R. 3591. At the same time, I am very supportive of President Reagan’s publicly stated view of limiting the [...]

This is a great article on the crisis of relevence in the ICJ, and its last chance to redeem itself after the fiasco of the Milosivic trial. US refusal to recognize the ICC isn’t helping either.
 
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International justice on trial in The Hague

International Herald Tribune
Editorial
Friday, June 8, 2007
 
So far, the trial of Charles Taylor, the former [...]

And on the sixth day the world changed
Financial Times
By Harvey Morris
June 1 2007
Available at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d369f4b2-0e52-11dc-8219-000b5df10621.html 
In the space of a week in June 1967, Israel confronted and defeated three neighbouring Arab states - Egypt, Jordan and Syria - in a war that would change the map of the Middle East and create a new strategic reality.
It [...]

African Union must rescue itself from Darfur Crisis
Sudan Tribune (based in Paris)
Monday 4 June 2007 07:11
By Wasil Ali
Available at: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article22213
A few years ago I read an interesting article by the renowned Egyptian columnist and author Anis Mansour. He said that he came across an African head of state who criticized him for writing a [...]

Amnesty International released a report on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The report is called Enduring Occupation: Palestinians under seige in the West Bank.
Enduring Occupation: Palestinians under seige in the West Bank
Amnesty International
4 June 2007
1.2 Introduction - Background: Spiralling Israeli-Palestinian Violence
Since the beginning of the intifada in September [...]

BY MARK JACOB
foreign/national news editor
Chicago Tribune
June 3, 2007
Click here to find the original aritcle.
The Group of Eight summit starts Wednesday in the small Baltic resort town of Heiligendamm, Germany. The meeting of the world’s leading democratic industrialized nations is attended by the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan and Russia. But as [...]