Robert Hurley

Posts tagged with "Geneva Convention"

New Post on Media Vulture, my News and Media Criticism Blog

Saturday, 20. January 2007, 23:28:03

boycott, political discourse, Geneva Convention, Media Vulture ...

Official Attacks Top Law Firms Over Detainees

WASHINGTON - The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms’ corporate clients should consider ending their business...

By Neil A. Lewis, New York Times

that's the last time I adopt a positive attitude

Wednesday, 13. September 2006, 21:20:32

Media Vulture, Karl Kraus, torture, media criticism ...

well, as one may suspect from this post, I'm not at work, so I have time to kill-- hence this posting...

the situation isn't dire, but I'm not holding my breath. And I have another interview for yet another place...

Anyway... in lew of financial renumeration for my efforts, once again I turn to the ~~masturbatory~~ simple rewards of a blog well done: in this case, my news and media criticism blog (dedicated to the late great Turn'o'the [last] Century Austrian media critic, Karl Kraus), Media Vulture.

This week, I present a parsing of one of George Bush's recent addresses, in which he expresses his displeasure with the Articles of the Geneva Convention (and International Law in general), and extolls the virtues of such wholesome activities as running Secret Prisons, Torture, and Military Tribunals.

Enjoy!

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