Updates in the news to articles on the FM website.
Contents
- Slavery (yes, it still exists)
- The rape accusations against Assange of Wikileaks
- The return on investment in a college investment
- Assassination via drones
- Justice in America means prison rape
(1) Slavery (yes, it still exists)
- “Foreign women are treated like slaves“, Miami Herald, 31 August 2010
- “Some Say Hawaii Farm Too Big To Fail After Farmers Convicted of Human Trafficking“, Fox News, 4 September 2010
Post on the FM website: Justice for slavers (esp sex traffickers): hang them high!, 20 August 2010
(2) The rape accusations against Assange of Wikileaks
- For a masterful summary see “Wikileaks, Assange, and the Strange Swedish Accusations” by James Fallows at the Atlantic.
- For a description of the legal protections Sweden provides and Wikileaks needs see “A Swedish Shield, Unraised“, Clint Hendler, Columbia Journalism Review, 2 September 2010
- Another perspective: “Fallows, others, taking another look at Assange’s ‘demise’“, Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, AntiWar, 2 September 2010
- Good news for the US government: “Civil War at WikiLeaks“, Philip Shenon, The Daily Beast, 3 September 2010 — Divide and conquer!
Posts on the FM website:
- Sad news about the CIA – Underestimating the skill of the government at covert ops?
- The full story of the rape charges against Julian Assange of Wikileaks, a possible covert op. – The key post, telling the story.
- Update to the Wikeleaks rape story, and why it’s important – If a covert op, it’s working.
- New and strange developments in the prosecution of Julian Assange (of Wikileaks), 1 September 2010
(3) The return on investment in a college investment
“Questioning the Return on Educational Investment“, Rebecca R. Ruiz, blog of the New York Times, 3 September 2010
Posts on the FM website:
- College education in America, another broken business model, 3 July 2009
- The secret about our universities (seldom even whispered among Professors), 5 July 2009
- Women dominating the ranks of college graduates – What’s the effect on America?, 7 July 2009
- A better answer to “why women outperform men in college?”, 8 July 2009
- Is a college education worth a million dollars?, 10 July 2009
- What should a student learn from college? Why go to college?, 1 November 2009
(4) Assassination via drones
“Ban Drone-Porn War Crimes – Death by joystick is immoral and illegal“, Ron Rosenbaum, Slate 31 August 2010
Posts on the FM website:
- “Filling the skies with Assassins” by Tom Engelhardt, 12 April 2009
- James Bond is not just our hero, but the model for our geopolitical strategy, 18 May 2009
- America’s dominance of the sky slowly erodes – inevitable or avoidable?, 22 September 2009
- The march of technology brings “The Forty-Year Drone War”, 26 January 2010
- Stratfor looks at “The Utility of Assassination”, 26 February 2010
- The biggest re-branding exercise in the history of the world, 21 August 2010 — A new image for America
- America plays the Apollo Option: killing from the sky, 26 August 2010
(5) Justice in America means prison rape
- Report of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, June 2009 — The Commission was established by the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act.
- Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?, David Cole, New York Review of Books, 19 November 2009
- “Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2008-09“, Allen J. Beck, Paul Guerino and Paige M. Harrison, Dept of Justice, 7 January 2010
- News story about the above report: “The Crisis of Juvenile Prison Rape: A New Report“, David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow, blog of the NY Review of Books, 7 January 2010
- “Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2008-09“, US Department of Justice, August 2010
- About the above report: “Prison Rape: Eric Holder’s Unfinished Business“, David Kaiser and Lovisa Stannow, blog of the New York Review of Books, 26 August 2010
