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Make no mistake: Australians have never been shy to question the behavior of other world leaders. In 1993, Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating famously had the country denied membership to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by calling Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad a “recalcitrant?? for refusing to attend an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. Despite their country’s military insignificance, Australian leaders have rarely been afraid to chart their own course—except, that is, when blindly supporting U.S foreign policy...

Author: By Bede A. Moore, | Title: The Little Guy in Australia | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...very good evidence” that the prisoner has information that would save innocent lives and refuses to give it. Although he stated that he was not advocating torture, Dershowitz suggested a clinical method of torture using sterilized hypodermic needles to be inserted under the recalcitrant??s fingernails, which he and the interviewer agreed would be excruciating...

Author: By William J. Ferrari, | Title: Barbarism: A Tortured Defense | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

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