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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        Sunday, March 6, 2011
Even Great Journalism Leaves Questions! Who were the Egyptians who actually did the torturing? Egypt needs to find out.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 11, 2008
BE VERY AFRAID. IT'S GOOD FOR BUSINESS. Keeping Fear Alive is Priority One for terrorism "experts"!
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 29, 2011
Egypt Security Raids US, German and Egyptian NGOs This couldn't be more Mubarak-esque! Take a look at what the Egyptian Army is trying to do to the country's last bastions of civil liberties and huiman rights!
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 2, 2009
Justice Delayed... For those of us who seek justice, the rule of law can be frustrating. But consider what kind of country we'd be without due process!
(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?
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 2, 2008
A Debate Question for Joe Biden "Winning" tonight's debate should be a no-brainer. But Joe Biden needs to answer some hard questions too.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 14, 2012
Not for the Faint-Hearted The Internet won't do all your work. You need to know what you're looking for. Stories like these are a lot harder to find than the latest steamy affair initiated by a guy who wants to represent you next year.
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?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, November 24, 2012
Prosecuting the Prosecutor DID A FORMER TEXAS PROSECUTOR -- NOW A JUDGE -- WITHOLD EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE THAT PUT MICHAEL MORTON BEHIND BARS FOR 25 YEARS?
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sending Americans into Exile The President claims the authority to kill you with drones overseas. Now he refuses to let you back into your own country after you travel abroad.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 5, 2012
How Does This Federal Judge Sleep at Night? The 'tough on crime" bunch continues to pack our prisons with hundreds of thousads of people who shouldn't be there at all. In the process, they ensure that we lose the so-called "drug war". And they do that with your money.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 20, 2010
Europe's Great Cover Up! American readers are conflicted about Europe's upcoming Burqa-Ban. Europeans, not so much!
(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        Saturday, August 16, 2008
THOSE PESKY ACTIVIST JUDGES Voters have a right to demand that presidential candidates let us know their views on detention, rendition, the role of the courts and the limits on presidential power.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 25, 2010
Well done, Mr. Kennedy! Are you impatiently waiting to change Exxon-Mobil's diapers, or take KBR's kids (subsidiaries) to school? It's all about to happen!
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?
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 5, 2011
Can We Please Call a Nut a Nut? Here's how the cult of "objectivity" distorts our knowledge of what's going on in the world.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 30, 2011
The Headless Horsemen of Tahrir Square Mubarak or Muslim Briotherhood: False Choice!
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.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 16, 2009
DOJ Releases Torture Memos; Will Not Prosecute Torturers This is enough to turn your stomach --but there's still more to come!

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