American Views Abroad

 
The Corruption in Washington is Smothering America's Future by Johann Hari:

.....But corporations are not people. Should they have the right to bear arms, or to vote? It would make as much sense. They are a legal fiction, invented by the state - and they can be fairly regulated to stop them devouring their creator. This is the same Supreme Court that ruled that the detainees at Guantanomo Bay are not 'persons' under the constitution deserving basic protections. A court that says a living breathing human is less of a 'persons' than Lockheed Martin has gone badly awry.

www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29-1


The 'Devastating' Decision by Ronald Dworkin:

The conservative justices savaged canons of judicial restraint they themselves have long praised. Chief Justice Roberts takes every opportunity to repeat what he said, under oath, in his Senate nomination hearings: that the Supreme Court should avoid declaring any statute unconstitutional unless it cannot decide the case before it in any other way. Now consider how shamelessly he and the other justices who voted in the majority ignored that constraint in their haste to declare the McCain-Feingold Act unconstitutional in time for the coming midterm elections.

http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/354384835/the-devastating-decision
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The tragedy of Haiti leaves one stunned silent. In sixteen seconds a country has imploded. It staggers the imagination. The hurt goes deep.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/haiti-trauma-damage-after-earthquake and
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/haiti-unburied-bodies-earthquake
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