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Charlie Haughey was drafted into the US Army in October of 1967. He was 24, and had been in college in Michigan before running out of money and quitting school to work in a sheet metal factory. The draft notice meant that he was to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam, designated a rifleman, the basic field position in the Army. After 63 days in Vietnam, he was made a photographer, shooting photographs for the Army and US newspapers, with these instructions from the Colonel: “You are not a combat photographer.
British schoolboy's amazing speech on social justice
In this video, a fifteen-year-old British student (I think the announcer calls him "Berkeley," but it could be "Rodney" or something else) gives and rousing, articulate call-to-arms for social justice, solidarity, and social justice. This young man is one of the best speakers I've heard, and I salute his passion and his integrity: They can't stop us demonstrating, they can't stop us fighting back, and how ever much they try to imprison us in the streets of London, those are our streets. We will always be there to demonstrate, we will always be there to fight...
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The movement that makes so much of hate crimes legislation seems to think nothing of passing hateful laws in the land of starkest scenery; in fact, the same people who brought you S.B. 1070 wanted to give Arizonans the toughest anti-Sharia protection in the country (.PDF). This nasty little item would have prohibited judges from enforcing "religious sectarian law," defined as ANY STATUTE, TENET OR BODY OF LAW EVOLVING WITHIN AND BINDING A SPECIFIC RELIGIOUS SECT OR TRIBE. RELIGIOUS SECTARIAN LAW INCLUDES SHARIA LAW, CANON LAW , HALACHA AND KARMA BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY LAW OF THE UNITED STATES OR THE INDIVIDUAL STATES BASED ON ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL TRADITION AND PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE UNITED STATES WAS FOUNDED.
Arizona's Karmic Injustice
12 December 2010 Last updated at 19:53 GMT Mr Jones had said the burning would be a stand against terrorism Home Secretary Theresa May has said she will be "actively looking at" whether a controversial US pastor should be banned from entering the UK.
Koran-protest pastor Terry Jones may be banned from UK
10 December 2010 Last updated at 11:03 GMT By Iain Mackenzie BBC News, New Orleans Henry Glover's family and friends had to push to have his killing investigated New Orleans witnessed many macabre spectacles in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Few could have been more bizarre and chilling than the death of Henry Glover. The 31-year-old had survived the flooding that claimed more than 1,800 lives in his city.
New Orleans police under scrutiny after killing verdict
US foreclosures in new legal trouble
7 January 2011 Last updated at 17:55 ET The ruling could affect other lenders - and other borrowers who have been foreclosed upon Two of the US's biggest mortgage lenders have had mortgage foreclosures cancelled in a case that could affect other banks. The Supreme Court in Massachusetts ruled against US Bancorp and Wells Fargo in a widely watched case.
Thousands of demonstrators march through Dublin to protest against budget cuts and an EU-IMF bailout. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP More than 100,000 Irish citizens took to the streets of Dublin today to protest against the international bailout and four years of austerity. Despite overnight snow storms and freezing temperatures, huge crowds have gathered in O'Connell Street to demonstrate against the cuts aimed at driving down Ireland 's colossal national debt.
Thousands protest against Irish bailout | World news
Chief Justice Roberts Calls for End to Senate Obstruction of Judges
Nearly one in nine federal judgeships are currently vacant , a vacancy rate that is leaving many courts barely able to function. Indeed, the problem has become so severe that Republican Chief Justice John Roberts used his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary to call upon the Senate to end this logjam: Over many years, however, a persistent problem has developed in the process of filling judicial vacancies. Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes. This has created acute difficulties for some judicial districts .
The beginning of the end for the War on Drugs?
A report to the U.N. General Assembly at the end of October about the need for better sex education was met with a flurry of angry voices. African nations rejected the report. Caribbean countries said they took "umbrage" and wanted to "put on record" their strong disapproval.
U.S. Pursues Sweeping Insider-Trading Probe
By SUSAN PULLIAM , MICHAEL ROTHFELD , JENNY STRASBURG and GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders, and analysts across the nation, according to people familiar with the matter. The criminal and civil probes, which authorities say could eclipse the impact on the financial industry of any previous such investigation, are examining whether multiple insider-trading rings reaped illegal profits totaling tens of millions of dollars, the people say.