'Just World News' with Helena Cobban

Casino capitalists in the brainwash-Iraqis biz

I have long maintained (e.g. here, PDF) that two of the major goals of all oppressive powers that undertake campaigns of mass incarceration is to use that incarceration both as...

Restorative justice in a DC church

Yesterday's WaPo had a fascinating account of an innovative program the DC police is running, to offer people who are "fugitives" from the law a safe-seeming and humane way to...

"Bending" Iraqi detainees to the US will

The commander of US detention facilities in Iraq, Marine Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, on Tuesday told a group of military bloggers that the US is now holding 25,000 detainees...

"Rick Warren should be in jail"

"Rick Warren should be in jail." So should Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, Robert H. Schuller, and perhaps even.... Helena Cobban. :-} I'm referring, if you haven't guessed, to prison libraries...

Mia Farrow: "virtual hostage"

Irony alert Those familiar with Farzaneh Milani's path-breaking literary analysis will recognize the phrase "hostage narrative," a term she has been devloping over many years to apply to that best-selling...

Alan, Haleh, and all others unjustifiably deprived of their freedom

It's been more than two months of heart-rending uncertainty now, for Alan Johnston, the courageous and professionally talented BBC reporter who was abducted by persons unknown in Gaza back on...