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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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE 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 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.
(5 comments) SHARE 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.
SHARE 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 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 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 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!
(2 comments) SHARE 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!