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...remaining disparity in this country, exemplified by the victims of Hurricane Katrina, must be addressed because “people pay taxes and must demand rights of their citizenship,” Cummings said...
...Rumsfeld, the ranking officers and administrators who failed to properly oversee the prison should not be permitted to shirk from the stain Abu Ghraib has cast over the U.S. armed forces. For this reason, we called for the secretary’s resignation in May 2004—a demand that has not been assuaged or tempered by the passage of over a year...
...Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners access to a trial. Most of the prisoners currently held at Guantanamo were captured during the invasion of Afghanistan...
...nations' impending Nuclear Agreement. Last July, Singh and Bush agreed on the broad outlines of a nuclear deal that would require India to separate its military and civilian nuclear programs. In exchange the U.S. would share nuclear technology with India, whose population now exceeds one billion and whose energy demand has been voracious...
...become increasingly important, given that the University of California system, one of the largest university systems in the world, is currently considering whether to divest. The decision to divest could come as soon as the next University of California regents meeting slated for March, “Our consciences demand it, our respect for human life and rights necessitates it, and the esteem in which we hold our institution leaves us no alternative. We must divest from Sudan now and ensure that our investments do not support genocide ever again,” the students said...