Oregon's Ethics WarAgreeI agree. Proper use of public funds is the heart of the issue.RE: Oregon's Ethics WarIt is possibly done to countermeasure lobbyists, those who use their power to benefit their relatives private business. And also track their holdings - to know if you use your power to their...
Liverpool City Council will this week become one of the first UK local authorities to try to prevent the region's public sector pension fund from investing in the def-ence industry. A motion expected to be passed by the city council on Wednesday will call on the 4.4bn...
Canada's faith communities are today appealing to the Prime Minister and Immigration Minister to stop all deportation actions against U.S. Iraq War conscientious objector Corey Glass as well as all those who have sought refuge in Canada. The federal government's July 10 deportation order against Glass is still in effect....
THE SKETCH Gordon must find Foreign Office questions tantalising. All these countries behaving so badly, committing so many crimes against humanity, offering such moral opportunities. We heard about Burma and its generals. Iran where apostasy and homosexuality are punishable by death. Aden kidnapping tourists. There must be...
WASHINGTON AFP — An award for journalists working in countries where press freedom is under attack is to be set up to honor Peter Mackler, the late AFP North America chief editor, his family said Wednesday. Mackler, a 30-year veteran of Agence France-Presse who covered wars and elections...
Children at War by P. W. Singer. University of California Press (http://www.ucpress.edu), 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94704-1012, 2006, 278 pages, $16.95 softcover. P. W. Singer's book Children at War is a sad, troubling look at a growing problem in the world today: children serving as soldiers. He...
CHICAGO AFP — Democrat Barack Obama was roiled by another campaign scandal Wednesday when a key advisor resigned amid damaging reports that he had received preferential home loans. Although Jim Johnson, who has been leading the hunt for a vice presidential candidate, denies any favorable treatment for his...
KANN KRIEG ERLAUBT SEIN?: EINE QUELLENSAMMLUNG ZUR POLITISCHEN ETHIK DER SPANISCHEN SPATSCHOLASTIK. Edited by Heinz-Gerhard Justenhofen and Joachim Stuben. Theologie und Frieden 27. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2006. Pp. 547. 40 [euro]. In a recent Concilium editorial Dietmar Mieth wrote of a contemporary "return...
AS THE SCIENCE OF CLONING has quickly advanced, the debate over myriad issues surrounding it--spanning morals, ethics, science and more--persists. Meanwhile, as advocates and detractors continue their verbal sparring, the breakthroughs have marched onward. Indeed, after successfully cloning animals in multiple instances, researchers are on the cusp of cloning humans....
CANNES, France AFP — Repressed memories, the horrors of war and Israel's dubious role in a notorious Beirut refugee camp massacre are the themes of the Cannes film festival's first ever fully-animated documentary. "Waltz With Bashir," said Screen magazine in one of the first reviews, "could easily turn...
Leaders of the Society of ProfessionalJournalists today urged the nation's media to hold their military analyststo the same ethical standards journalists are required to meet concerningpotential conflicts of interest, financial ties and relationships withgovernment agencies. SPJ leaders also expressed outrage at what an April 20 New York Times storyrevealed to...
The Ethics of Human Rights: Contested Doctrinal and Moral Issues. By Esther D. Reed. (Baylor University Press, 225 pp., $29.95 paperback.) Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World. By John G. Stackhouse. (Oxford University Press, 384 pp., $27.95.) Those who are interested in Wolterstorff's reclamation of...
POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds--this is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, double-talk, systematic deception, and lies presented as metaphorical "truths" are the order of...
National interest and international solidarity; particular and universal ethics in international life. Ed. by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Nicholas J. Wheeler. United Nations University Pr. 2008 317 pages $36.00 Paperback JZ1320 In the middle 1990s,...
Peace action; past, present, and future. Ed. by Glen Harold Stassen and Lawrence S. Wittner. Paradigm Publishers 2007 170 pages $77.00 Hardcover JZ5584 Peace Action (the organization formed from the merger of SANE and...
Enemy combatants, terrorism, and armed conflict law; a guide to the issues. Ed. by David K. Linnan. Praeger 2008 400 pages $85.00 Hardcover KF9430 From perspectives of political science, law, and religion, contributors examine...
Moral reasons; an introduction to ethics and critical thinking. Fink, Charles K. Univ. Press of America 2008 187 pages $29.00 Paperback BJ1012 Fink (philosophy, Miami Dade College) discusses moral reasoning, by considering the ethical...
War, torture, and terrorism; ethics and war in the 21st century. Ed. by David Rodin. Blackwell Publishing 2007 139 pages $34.95 Paperback U22 This volume collects nine papers examining the ethics of war as...
Fear; essays on the meaning and experience of fear. Ed. by Kate Hebblethwaite and Elizabeth McCarthy. Four Courts Press 2007 235 pages $65.00 Hardcover BF575 Developed from ideas presented at a May 2006 conference...
War and ethics; a new just war theory. Fotion, Nicholas. Continuum Publishing Group 2007 178 pages $16.95 Paperback U22 Just war theory "is bleeding" says Fotion (philosophy, Emory U.) from under-use, from being used...
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