Alternative News and Information. en-us http://www.alternet.org/rss/button.gif http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/ Copyright 2012 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. http://www.alternet.org/story/21151/torturers%27_tales/ A new book about the defendents at the Nuremberg Trials has chilling resonance to discussions of prisoner abuse today. Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:00:01 PST Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet -ae224a2b6d1b233a204dad19a6aa017d http://www.alternet.org/story/10625/who_wants_to_be_executed%21/ Welcome back to the 168th performance of "Who Wants to Be Executed," the gameshow where the "hot seat" is smoking and the prize is keeping your life! Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:00:00 PST Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet -40b8498f89a8b101cd6fc6bb690231f9 http://www.alternet.org/story/9088/elian_case_shows_struggles_of_single_fathers/ The dismissive treatment of fathers' rights by Miami's Cuban community and much of the media reveals once again the low standing of fathers in America. Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00:00 PDT Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet -3fefa7bea6f56955b72610cda97bc45b http://www.alternet.org/story/799/dear_uncle_sam.../ As more counties around the world limit or abolish the death penalty, the U.S. is heading in the opposite direction. More than 100 individuals will be executed by the end of 1999, well above last year's U.S. record of 74. As a powerful new study shows, this will include the killing of foreign nationals, mentally retarded and mentally incompetent defendants, and those who were teenagers at the time of their crime -- a practice which is making the U.S. an international human rights pariah. Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:00:00 PDT Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet -28267ab848bcf807b2ed53c3a8f8fc8a http://www.alternet.org/story/3928/the_ultimate_product_placement/ With the whole world watching, more than a dozen CBS correspondents covering the Winter Olympics in Ogano, Japan, have appeared on the air wearing apparel prominently adorned with the Nike "swoosh" symbol. Spontaneous conversion? Not quite. This sartorial synchronicity is the result of a contractual agreement between CBS and the Nike Corporation, reports Medea Benjamin, co-director of the human rights advocacy group Global Exchange. According to Benjamin, CBS corespondents refusing to wear the Nike apparel have been ordered by CBS brass to button up -- or else. Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:00:00 PDT Jeff Gillenkirk, AlterNet -1597d21403f63da1bb0539592597a525