Social Issues Archive

  • Terrorist Surveillance Program Investigation

    Terrorist Surveillance Program Investigation

    Ever hear of the saying “better late than never?” Well, that seems to be the Department of Justice’s slogan these days as they have officially announced that they will head an investigation into President Bush’s Terrorist Surveillance Program. Why now? Well, the inspectors from both...

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  • Secret prisons of the U.S. and E.U. involvement

    Secret prisons of the U.S. and E.U. involvement

    Well, I can’t say this surprises me but a report from the European and NATO foreign ministers concluded that “member states had knowledge of the program of extraordinary rendition and secret prisons.” Now, although specific states are not acknowledging they knew, the evidence of operations...

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  • Introduction 201: The Darfur Crisis

    Introduction 201: The Darfur Crisis

    Welcome back to my special series on the Darfur crisis. Today I will give you a bit more information on the humanitarian issue that is taking place. Some international organizations refuse to call the mass killings a genocide, however with the mass amounts of murders...

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  • Part Two: Mostafa Tabatabainejad tasered

    Part Two: Mostafa Tabatabainejad tasered

    Today, one of the abusive officers who was involved in last week’s attack on Mostafa Tabatabainejad was named officially. Terrence Duren has been with UCLA since 1988 and hopefully he won’t be with the department in 2007. Mr. Duren is no stranger to investigations. He...

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  • Introduction 151: The Darfur Crisis

    Introduction 151: The Darfur Crisis

    As a continuation of my earlier introduction 101 to the Darfur crisis, introduction 151 will go into a bit more detail now that you are familiar with who is fighting and why. The conflict started in early 2003 with a peace deal in 2004 being...

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  • Part One: Mostafa Tabatabainejad tasered

    Part One: Mostafa Tabatabainejad tasered

    Today’s Talk will focus on a disturbing incident at UCLA’s campus late last week involving a student named Mostafa Tabatabainejad. He who was tasered by campus police for not leaving the library and failing to show his ID when asked by staff workers at the...

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  • Fox news: A bias news agency

    Fox news: A bias news agency

    Fox news aka faux news has once let the public know again that its true purpose is not to report the news but rather distort the facts to the public. An internal memo from the network’s Vice President was leaked by a good samaritan spy...

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  • Afghan women surviving

    Afghan women surviving

    Afghan women are by no means as free as women in western societies are accustom too. Arrange marriages are still apart of their customs whether they want it or not and often at a very young age. A special envoy of social experts from India,...

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