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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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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 9, 2011
Abu Ghraib Redux There's another Abu Ghraib scandal coming our way!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Law Professors Outraged by Senate Vote on Indefinite Detention The U.S. Senate: The World's Leading Obfuscation Body Does It Again!
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 5, 2011
Driving on Breast Milk A Saudi cleric proposes a solution to mingling by unrelated men and women. But the women see him and raise him.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 2, 2011
"This is Where I'm Going to be When I Die," say Prisoners sentenced for Juvenile Crimes Again, a situation that reveals the barbarian in us all. Makes you wonder how mature, thinking people could have arrived at such an inhuman solution!
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 19, 2011
Egypt: Demonstrators Push to Reverse Army's Power Grab. Is the Egyptian Army trying to hang on to power as the country's rulers? Or is it trying to shed that responsibility a.s.a.p. because it knows nothing about governance? And it's getting tired of being everyone's whipping boy! You figure it out.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Oh Those "Debates" Republican Wannabees for the President Nomination seem to have drunk all the Kool-Aid.But they'd be great at a showbiz roast or, better yet, a Minstrel Show.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 11, 2011
Egypt: Global day of solidarity against military junta's trials on Saturday Rising tensions between Egypyt's revolutionaries and its Army's generals threatens to scuttle the achievements of Tahrir Square.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 10, 2011
Head of Bahrain Investigation Finds "Systematic Policy of Torture" Will the Bahraini king pay any attention to the findings of the blue-ribbon commission he appointed?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 10, 2011
DNA Keeps Spreading its Magic Dust Over Wrongly-Convicted Prisoners What motivates some prosecutors to ignore exculpatory evidence to get convictions? Scalps!
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 6, 2011
Liberties Lost Since 9/11 One of the world's renowned human rights defenders concludes that the so-called 'War on Terror' has cost Americans some of their most cherished liberties.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 23, 2011
The Cold Hand Of Ice Could Destroy Your Family! Is this the Change WEe Can Believe In? Apparently so!
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 23, 2011
Fbi Using Racial, Ethnic Profiling To Snoop On Us Citizens, Aclu Charges How can the FBI again deny it uses racial and ethnic profiling to snoop on us?
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 15, 2011
Those Pesky Renditions Again! Should someone be telling us voters and taxpayers about new information on thwe CIA's extraordinary renditions and secret prisons? Yes, but who?
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 1, 2011
He's Dead, But Is It Legal? Glenn Greenwald: He was simply ordered killed by the President: his judge, jury and executioner." Where are the courts?
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 18, 2011
Egypt: The Murder of Dissent Press freedom is under a serious threat from Egypt's military rulers. Little has changed from the decades of repression under Hosni Mubarak.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 11, 2011
Joe Trippi's New Gig Bahrain has hired a couple of high-powered PR people to erase its outrageous human rights record. One is Joe Trippi, John Edwards' former Internet guru. The other is Matt Lauer, who used to work for the State Department in the public diplomacy area. It's a good test of whether PR can change people's attitudes when nothing substantive really changes!
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 2, 2011
Looking for Frank Church The CIA and the New York City cops? Brings back memories, no?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 19, 2011
The Kids Count It's hard to fathom, but politicians won't act even when our children's welfare is involved! Unbelievable!
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 17, 2011
BAHRAIN: UNION LEADERS ON HUNGER STRIKE Will the findings of an international commission sway the King of Bahrain? I wouldn't take it to the bank.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Book Review: The Foley Follies -- Today's Most Un-Political, Un-Productive, and Totally Hilarious Self-Help Book Ever tried to read a sentence in which no single word has anything to do with any other single word?

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