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Heather Anderson

U.S. Apologizes for Syphilis Experiment in Guatemala - 2 views

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  • Heather Anderson on 02 Oct 10
     
    Maybe more of an ethics topic, but I'd say it affects U.S.-Guatemala relations, too...
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  • Catherine Binder on 02 Oct 10
     
    I'd heard about the experiment in the news, but the details that come to surface in this article are just appalling. I'm horrified and embarrassed. It's just one of the many examples of why other countries hate us, and quite frankly, I can't blame them.
  • Harrison Lee on 03 Oct 10
     
    I found this article truly shocking. The U.S.'s hypocrisy in the past century has been baffling, and one line in the article (that criticized the U.S.'s prosecution of Nazi's while commiting aweful humanitarian crimes itself) in particular really highlights this point. The fact that these crimes occurred, and moreover, the fact that the U.S. got away with it for over half a century, sheds light on how America viewed the rest of the world. This article reminded me of the exploitation of have-not's that we have studied in history by the have's (bourgeoisie vs. proletariats). This is also relevant to the domestic crimes involved with Tuskegee and the socioeconomic divide in America during those times. While I appreciate the efforts to improve transparency in the government, I totally believe that apologies are not enough. There should be reparations.
  • Amara Plaza-Jennings on 03 Oct 10
     
    I agree with all that has been said. I was horrified when I was reading this article. I had heard stories of some unethical scientific experiments before, but I never thought that the US could be involved in something as terrible as this, something just as terrible as the experiments of the Nazi's. This article highlighted my beliefs and prejudices that the US was more ethical than other countries, when in reality we have a similar, if less well known, history.
  • Rachel Katzoff on 03 Oct 10
     
    I am very proud of Clinton for issuing an appology for the actions of the US government. I am glad that there was a public statement made in order to admit to our crimes as a nation. I find it hard to believe that the US would do these horrible things, and it serves as a reminder that the US was not always a free and accepting nation. We have a deep history of racism. I don't think that appologies are enough to repent for the horrors we caused, but I think they are a step in the right direction. Articles like this are a great way to prompt discussion aobut our racist past as well as remember what has happened in order to make sure these crimes will never be repeated.
  • Rebecca Heller on 04 Oct 10
     
    I have to admit that when I first heard about this, I thought that it was some sort of twisted joke. I found it particularly appalling that these studies were conducted on prison inmates and mental patients, people who were completely at the mercy of the government system and had little or no other independence (and therefore no way to get out of this). The fact that the United States could do something so completely hypocritical, especially while leading the Nuremberg trials (as Harrison pointed out) is shocking. I am glad that Secretary of State Clinton and the US government seem to be ready to apologize for this heinous program without attempting to justify or conditionalize it and that they openly apologized to the Guatemalan government. I hope that they will continue to be as transparent during the Guatemalan investigation.
samueld2022

Anwar Raslan Syria War Crimes Trial Verdict: Live Updates - The New York Times - 0 views

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syria

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  • samueld2022 on 13 Jan 22
     
    Trying people for crimes against humanity is a rare occurrence nowadays, and Germany successfully trying and prosecuting a Syrian criminal of an international crime is definitely an example of globalization.
Tommy Cella

Researching India - 1 views

I learned that India has a rich history in agriculture, as Bronze Age farming technology has been found and a second century dam is still in use today. Currently, two thirds of the populace work in...

India agriculture crimes against women Mumbai

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Rick Rodgers

A Transcript of a UN Committee Meeting About Transnational Crime - 0 views

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UN crime transnational bad stuff

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  • Rick Rodgers on 18 Oct 10
     
    From drug trafficking to illegal fishing, transnational crime is growing. This is a transcript of a "third committee" meeting addressing some of the issues of transnational criminal organizations today. We've talked a lot about recognized and legal transnational organization, this article illuminates the fact that the aforementioned are not the only flavor available.
Kay Bradley

Why It's Hard to Get Strongmen to Step Down - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • to avoid prosecution
  • maintain wealth gained through corruption
  • or in some cases avoid death at the hands of adversaries
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  • Charles G. Taylor, Liberia
  • he ended up standing trial in an international court for war crimes for his role in neighboring Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, charged with murder, sexual slavery and using child soldiers.
  • Mr. Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison. It was the first time since the Nuremberg trials that a former head of state was convicted by an international tribunal.
  • Hosni Mubarak, Egypt
  • Mr. Mubarak stepped down in February 2011.Just two months later, the military government to which he handed power arrested him.
  • He was put on trial for a series of charges, at times wheeled into the courtroom on a hospital bed.
  • he was freed this year and escorted by armed guard to his mansion in the Heliopolis neighborhood of Cairo.
  • Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya
  • Mr. Qaddafi remained defiant even as it became clear he would not maintain his grip on the country, as rebels overran his fortresslike compound and seized full control of Tripoli in August 2011.Just months later in October 2011, Mr. Qaddafi died at the hands of rebel groups while trying to flee.
  • Joseph Kabila, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • was supposed to step down last December at the end of his second term, as constitutionally mandated. But he refused, s
  • his fears for his safety and his wealth.
  • Mr. Kabila first came to office in 2001, after his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, was assassinated.
  • he has been widely accused of amassing wealth at the expense of the state
  • Investigators and some government officials say that Mr. Kabila has looted millions of dollars in public assets
  • Elections have been pushed back to December 2018,
Kay Bradley

Police Reform Is Necessary. But How Do We Do It? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • The United States spends more on public safety than almost all its peer countries and much less, relatively speaking, on social services
  • Now we’re having a conversation that’s not just about how black communities are policed, and what reforms are required, but also about why we’ve invested exclusively in a criminalization model for public safety, instead of investing in housing, jobs, health care, education for black communities and fighting structural inequality.
  • Budgets are moral documents, reflecting priorities and values.
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  • Garza: In 2018 and 2019, my organization, Black Futures Lab, did what we believe is the largest survey of black communities in America. It’s called the Black Census Project. We asked more than 30,000 black people across America what we experience, what we want to see happen instead and what we long for, for our futures.
  • the No.1 issue facing them, and keeping them up at night, is that their wages are too low to support a family.
  • Imagine that you have a tool chest for solving social problems. It gives you options. Then you lose the tool of mental-health resources. You lose the tool of public education. They take out the tool of job placement. And then all you’ve got left is this one rusty hammer. That’s policing.
  • Simply defunding the police cannot be a legacy of this moment. I want to hear about investing in black communities more than I want to hear about defunding.
  • There has been such a massive disinvestment in the social safety net that should exist to give black communities an opportunity to thrive, whether it’s access to health care or housing or education or jobs.
  • They cause others to be armed, out of fear, who shouldn’t have to worry about defending themselves
  • The dispatcher would route calls that aren’t about crimes or a risk of harm to social workers, mediators and others.
  • In many cities, the police spend a lot of time “on traffic and motor-vehicle issues, on false burglar alarms, on noise complaints and on problems with animals,”
  • When a police report leads to criminal charges — only a subset of the whole — about 80 percent of them are for misdemeanors. Friedman argues that we should hand off some of what the police do to people who are better trained for it.
  • A tiny percentage of people are the ones destabilizing communities
  • There are a host of things that the police are currently responding to that they have no business responding to.
  • If you have a car accident, why is somebody with a gun coming to the scene?
  • Or answering a complaint about someone like George Floyd, who the store clerk said bought a pack of cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill?
  • Similarly, if you have a homeless man panhandling at a red light and you say to a cop, “Go fix it,” he’ll arrest the man. And now he has a $250 ticket. And how does he pay that? And what does any of this accomplish?
  • domestic disputes. They’re the subject of 15 to more than 50 percent of calls to the police
  • But might we get further in the long run if someone with other skills — in social work or mediation — actually handled the incident?
  • The women were deeply wary of the police in general, but 33 of them had called them at least once, often for help with a teenager. “Calling the police on family members deepens the reach of penal control,” Bell wrote. But the mothers in her study have scant options.
  • hey knew that if they called the police that real harm could come, and they didn’t want that.
  • When I did investigations for the Justice Department, I would hear police officers say: “I didn’t sign up to the police force to be a social worker. I don’t have that training.” They know they’re stuck handling things because there is a complete lack of investment in other approaches and responses.
  • In Eugene, Ore., some 911 calls are routed to a crisis-intervention service called Cahoots, which responds to things like homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness. Houston routes some mental-health calls to a counselor if they’re not emergencies. New Orleans is hiring people who are not police officers to go to traffic collisions and write reports, as long as there are no injuries or concerns about drunken driving. I’m borrowing these examples from Barry Friedman’s article. The point is that some cities are beginning to reduce the traditional scope of police work.
  • One of the most interesting studies about policing is a randomized comparison of different strategies for dealing with areas of Lowell, Mass., that were hot spots for crime. One was aggressive patrols, which included stop-and-frisk encounters and arrests on misdemeanor charges, like drug possession. A second was social-service interventions, like mental-health help or taking homeless people to shelters. A third involved physical upkeep: knocking down vacant buildings, cleaning vacant lots, putting in streetlights and video cameras. The most effective in reducing crime was the third strategy.
anays2023

Jair Bolsonaro: Brazilian senators call for crimes against humanity charges against pre... - 0 views

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  • anays2023 on 20 Oct 21
     
    Pretty relevent and shocking article
cole_bodner

Shinzo Abe: Why a state funeral for slain ex-PM is controversial - BBC - 0 views

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  • cole_bodner on 26 Sep 22
     
    Japan is holding a state funeral for Shinzo Abe, the country's longest-serving prime minister, who was assassinated in July at a political rally. The event has sparked controversy, however, with a protest of around 10,000 people today in Tokyo after a man set himself on fire near the PM's office earlier this week. The pushback is associated not only with the cost of the funeral, at around $11 million, but primarily with disagreement around giving such a high honor to a relatively unpopular political figure. Japanese state funerals have been historically reserved for members of the imperial family with only one other politician receiving a state funeral since WWII, back in 1967.
  • slavatalanov on 28 Sep 22
     
    This is disappointing but not unexpected considering the elderly conservative demographics of Japan now. Abe has so much on his record that should have disqualified him from such an honor. At his core, he was a war crime apologist. His government had Japanese educational texts redacted to gloss over the crimes of the Japanese Empire in WWII, including the crimes of his beloved grandfather, who was nicknamed "The Monster of the Showa Era". He denied that Japan exported "comfort women" for their soldiers from conquered nations, and pressured the victim countries into silence. He refused to recognize the Ainu people - the indigenous people of the Japanese isles - until 2019. He tried to remilitarize Japan to bolster nationalism, thankfully unsuccessfully. The Japanese people and East Asia as a whole will be better off with his apologist mouth shut for good.
Lex Nunno

Hiring More Cops is Not the Answer - 0 views

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Oakland Crime Libertarian

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  • Lex Nunno on 17 Jan 13
     
    This article was pretty interesting to read from Reason Magazine, a libertarian magazine. While I do not agree with the idea that a lower police force is beneficial to the society, the article does do a good job of pointing out instances where spending has gone wrong. In regards to the article's final paragraph, while most people do follow the law without having a police officer on every street corner, this does not prove any correlation between a lack of a police force and lower crime, like the article puts forth.
axelizaret

Killing of Migrant Forces France to Confront Racism Against Asian People - 3 views

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  • axelizaret on 17 Oct 16
     
    The status quo of racism and the intolerance of immigrants in France is not improving, and islamophobia is just at the surface of the issue. The awareness of racism against Asian communities is increasing in the aftermath of the murder of a 49 year old Chinese man who immigrated to France in 2006. While he was walking around with a couple of old friends, a group of youths beat them and left them lying on the sidewalk, and the man died 5 days later in the hospital. Since, there has been a large scale protest over the governments lack of action (60,000 people marched into Paris). Furthermore, it is coming to light that frequent hate crimes against Asian people have been going on and the government has, for the most part, ignored them. Police make reporting a crime pointless because they reject most reports on grounds that either they can't understand their accent, or they just refuse to take the complaint.
  • aleishaallen on 17 Oct 16
     
    I think this situation is reminiscent of what is going on all over Europe right now. Although many people have focused their attention on the refugee crisis and how islamophobia may be an issue, more and more situations are being brought to light that suggest a deep underlying racism that was there even before refugees started arriving. I think the comment about one death not being nothing is very important. With so much death and destruction, it is easy to say "well it was only that one time", but it is important to realize that even one death has a profound impact on a community and certainly a family. I also think that racism within the government is a large problem. The comments people made about the police not wanting to see (or being unable to see) the severity of a situation, seems to be a problem many are facing. On a more specific note, I was not aware that there is such a large Chinese population in France.
Kay Bradley

Opinion | An Article of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 09 Jan 21
     
    "The evidence is now quite strong that Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice. Many legal scholars believe a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. So the proper remedy for a president credibly accused of obstructing justice is impeachment."
Kay Bradley

Brazil far-right politician enters presidential race - BBC News - 1 views

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  • Kay Bradley on 14 Sep 20
     
    "Mr Bolsonaro has outraged many in Brazil with racist and homophobic comments. But his backers see him as a saviour in a crime-ridden country."
juliam814

U.S.-Venezuela Tensions Heat Up Again After Extradition of Maduro Ally - The New York T... - 0 views

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Venezuela NYTimes

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  • Alex Saab, a close adviser to Mr. Maduro, was extradited to the United States on charges of money laundering and links to Hezbollah, and the window of opportunity for a political resolution slammed shut — at least for now.
  • “But I think it’s also indicative, unfortunately, of Mr. Maduro putting self-interests ahead of the interests of the Venezuelan people,” Mr. Blinken said.
  • The United States still views Juan Guaidó, the former head of Venezuela’s National Assembly who attended President Donald J. Trump’s last State of the Union speech in 2020, as Venezuela’s interim leader.
  • juliam814 on 20 Oct 21
     
    After a slight turn towards the better, the relationship between Venezuela and the United States has tensed up again. After one of Maduro's allies, Alex Saab, was extradited (handed over (a person accused or convicted of a crime) to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed), Maduro called off all negotiations with the US that could have lead to rapprochement. This article then details some of the mistrust the US government has in Maduro.
juliam814

Attempt to charge Mexican scientists with 'organized crime' prompts international outcry - 1 views

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Mexico

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  • the government prosecutor was planning to charge him and 30 other Mexican academics and former government administrators with organized crime and money laundering.
  • such charges are typically reserved for narcotics traffickers, and are so serious that even just a formal accusation can result in incarceration in a maximum-security prison without the chance of bail until a trial is held.
  • The prosecutor alleges that between 2012 and 2018, before current Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was in office, Conacyt and the Foro partnered to funnel 471 million pesos (US$22.9 million) of the agency’s money into the Foro.
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  • “We share the concern of many members of the international scientific community that our Mexican scientific colleagues are being subjected to harassment and intimidation,” NASEM wrote in a 6 October missive to López Obrador. “In addition to the disturbing human rights aspects of their situation, we are worried that the actions against our colleagues may have a chilling effect on the broader Mexican scientific community.”
  • juliam814 on 20 Oct 21
     
    The Mexican government accused 31 Mexican scientists of money laundering, sparking discussion about the treatment of academics and many doubts over the validity of the accusations.
anays2023

The Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • anays2023 on 06 Dec 21
     
    Okay...this is not very COPO related but there are a lot of large trials going on...including Ghislaine Maxwell (Epstien's former wife charged with dozens of sex crimes) and Elizabith Holmes (former owner and CEO of scam sham Theranos)
Alexander Luckmann

Village Reignites Debate Over Italy's Fascist Past - 0 views

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italy mussolini fascism monuments

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  • Alexander Luckmann on 29 Aug 12
     
    This month, the town's fascist sympathies became the subject of intense debate when its mayor unveiled a publicly financed memorial to one of its most controversial former citizens: Rodolfo Graziani, a general under Mussolini who was accused of war crimes at the end of World War II and earned the title of "the Butcher" in two campaigns during Italy's colonization of North Africa in the 1920s and '30s.
  • Kay Bradley on 03 Sep 12
     
    CoPo Relevance: influence of a country's history over its current identity/political culture. Thanks, Alexander.
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