Month: April 2009
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ICC Prosecutor on why we keep failing on “never again”
Interesting excerpt from my podcast with Luis Moreno Ocampo this week: “We say ‘never again’ but we have no institutions to do a real ‘never again’ . . .”
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Welcome signs on FOIA under Obama
The wonderful team at the National Security Archives (NSA) are supporting the numerous FOIA requests I have on the boil for the book. While I am just following Darfur, they manage to keep tabs on everything you can imagine. Each week they lodge multiple requests …
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Mamdani’s inaccuracies [a.k.a. “Are we really expected to fact check every detail of a book like this? “]
You can call my indignation naive – but I just don’t think it’s that unreasonable to expect that a book, published by no less reputable an organization than Random House, could have been put through a fact-checking process before going to print.
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Interviewing Colin Powell this morning
In D.C. now. Really looking forward to this interview. Alas no time for a podcast – sorry all. I’m trying to pin John Bolton down for one later in the week.
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Hunger Strike for Darfur
On dodgy airport computer in terminal at Heathrow on way to Chicago and just got this statement through from Mia Farrow. She is leading a hunger strike in solidarity with those who are facing shortages of food and water as a result of the GOS expulsions of …
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Upcoming events
I’m heading back to the U.S. next week for a couple of events – and to squeeze in some more interviews whilst I’m at it. For anyone in Chicago or D.C., here are the details:
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Careful what you start . . .
Yesterday I told you that while churning through documents declassified through FOIA can be frustrating, you do occasionally come across a few gems. An example: