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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now writes on subjects ranging from human rights to foreign affairs for a number of newspapers and online journals.

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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 26, 2012
America: How Exceptional? Yes, America is extraordinary in many ways. But perfect it is not. And there's a huge question about whether we've even been truly "exce[tional."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 16, 2012
Remember Mubarak? The King of Bahrain gives us all a lesson in PR 101, designed to turn day to night, handcuffs to jewelled bracelets, sows' ears to silk purses.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, August 12, 2012
A Second Chance for Second-Class Justice? Could Obama have fought harder to close GITMO?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 4, 2012
Censoring the Whistle! Here we have yet another clue that the Afghan Government is skilled at poppy production and corruption. Don't expect much more from them regardless of what the propagandists tell us!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 23, 2012
Crazy While Locked Up! For the past twenty years or so, a large and growing population of mentally ill men and women have been discovering that they have virtually no place to go and that their future is homelessness followed by jail. Thousands are serving long sentences for relatively minor infractions.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Virginia's Political Asset Our lawmakers desperately need to understand some of the paths toward better behavior. If they don't, we'll just go on spending more money and throwing more lives on the landfill of broken lives.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 9, 2012
Texas Justice: 22 Years on Death Row Our prosecutorial bar will be perceived as weak and uncaring until these peer groups are ready to use their power to aggressively weed out bad behavior
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Tortured Punished, Torturer Cleared: The Story of Ahmed Abu-Ali. Does this story illustrate the excesses of the "war on terror" or our government's vigilance in jeeoing us safe?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The Perpetual Trial of Sami Al-Arian The power of the Justice System is truly awesome. Pray you never find yourself in its talons!
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Who'll Have the Last Laugh? You know how they define someone who keeps doing the same things over and over and expects a different result?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Kidnapped in Macedonia, Tortured in Afghanistan, and Dumped in Albania: The Forgotten Case of Khaled Ed-Masri To those who still believe in the integrity of our justice system, this will come as a very big shock.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Justice Delayed? Justice Cancelled? What can we do when our government fails? When it lies to us? When it takes away the freedom of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of its citizens?
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Arizona's Next Step: Guns in the Library Arizona wins another dubious honor. Guess what?
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 15, 2012
Bahrain Follows The Money Bahrain's Royalty is counting on the Formula One Grand Prix to refurbish the country's brutal image. But fun at the races might just backfire to the benefit of the thousands who have been arrested and tortured.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Ozzie: Open Mouth, Insert Foot? Ozzie Guillen has the same First Amendment rights as the rest of to say whatever he wants about anyone he wants to talk about. But, frankly, we enjoy his baseball more than his politics.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Amnesty Urges Halt in Immigration Enforcement; Calls for I.G. Inspection In the land of John Perry and Joe Arpaio, the gun is the king, and racial profiling isn't just inconvenient and humiliating -- it can land you in jail.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 1, 2012
Texas Prosecutors Go Rogue --And Get Away With It! In its infinite wisdom, our Supreme Court has granted prosecutors virtual immunity from prosecution for misconduct that has doomed many to long prison sentences -- sometimes on death row. Now, a courageous group of lawyers are trying to correct this travesty of justice.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 26, 2012
Is This the Accountability We Were Promised? The lawyers who bring human rights cases to US courts have to be the most patient and most frustrated guys in the legal profession. How are they now looking for a way around America's courts, which seem to have forgotten their mission: Justice!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 17, 2012
The GOP's Death Wish The GOP says "not so", but follow the feet and you'll get to the graveyard of what was once a legitimate political party.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 12, 2012
Prisoner Transfer to Afghans Likely to Produce More, Not Less, Torture. Afghanistan: Isn't this the war we won in 2002? The longer we stay there, the more complicated our mission becomes. Do you know what the mission is?

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