Republicans Rebel Against Legalised Torture

George W. Bush has proposed a set of laws and rules to try and make legal (under U.S. law) the kind of interrogation and imprisonment that his administration has illegally been conducting to this point. Senior Republicans are rebelling.

"Leading the efforts against [Bush] in the Senate are three key Republicans on the Armed Services Committee with their own military credentials: the chairman and a former secretary of the Navy, Senator John W. Warner of Virginia; Senator John McCain of Arizona, a prisoner of war in Vietnam; and Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a military judge. And publicly taking their side is Mr. Bush’s former secretary of state, Colin L. Powell."

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This Looks Like A Fascinating Show

THE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR EXPERIMENTS
Wednesday September 13 on CBC Newsworld at 10pm ET/PT

"atrocity-producing situations"

THE DOC: Why would four young men watch their friend die, when they could have intervened to save him? Why would a woman obey phone commands from a stranger to strip-search an innocent employee? What makes ordinary people perpetrate extraordinary abuses, like the events at Abu Ghraib?

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THE TALK: Filmmaker Alex Gibney and parenting expert Barbara Coloroso join military families and others to discuss "atrocity-producing situations": how to identify them and how to prevent them, from the schoolyard to the battlefield.

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The Softwood Lumber Deal Should Be Canada's Signal To Get Out Of NAFTA

"NAFTA regulations prevent Canada from exporting oil from Alberta to the rest of Canada before sending it along to other markets."

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"'NAFTA is definitely not working," said Laxer. "We were supposed to get guaranteed access [to U.S. markets] in return for giving up energy sovereignty and control over foreign ownership.' But this hasn't happened, Laxer added, and softwood lumber is strong evidence that the original promise isn't being upheld."

Playing hardball over softwood