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Today, we are faced with similar threats," says [Malcolm Weintraub], an attorney. "We've seen a great deal of impingement on our fundamental rights-through the [Bush] administration and court decisions... censorship, Guantanamo, and the compulsion to remain silent or not express yourself for fear of potential harm that may be endowed on you. In the '40s, the United States government didn't invoke v the blacklist. The Hollywood industry did, silencing these men and women by not taking their scripts, stories, giving them acting jobs-and through that economic coercion, caused them to starve. We should be always alert to those things. There's a lot of resonance today.
"The other two pieces are both solo shows; each exhibits a dark humor. We thought they would really complement the Trumbo ...
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. committee that oversees the Taliban blacklist dropped 14 names Friday at the Afghan government's urging, including several members of the peace council that President Hamid Karzai formed to find a political solution to the country's insurgency.
The Afghan government had asked the sanctions committee to drop up to 50 former Taliban leaders from its list, and provided extensive documentation aimed at showing they have since been reintegrated into society. Removing sanctions against former Afghan Taliban, including a travel ban and assets freeze, is seen as key to promoting dialogue.
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Deemed to be unsafe, certain airlines are currently banned from landing in the EU due to being blacklisted by the European Aviation Safety Agency. Thi...
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A list of individuals or organizations designated for special discrimination or boycott; also to put a person or organization on s...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Fueling momentum for a political solution to the nearly nine-year-old Afghan war, a U.N. committee is reviewing whether certain people could be removed from a blacklist that freezes assets and limits travel of key Taliban and al-Qaida figures, the top U.N. representative said Saturday.
Delegates to a national conference, or peace jirga, held this month in Kabul called on the government and its international partners to remove some of the 137 people from the list - a long- standing demand of the Taliban.
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Attempting to boost your site's search results with hidden phrases in the source code is a serious offense in the eyes of the top search engines and could land you on the blacklist at Google and Yahoo. [...] we are not allowed to comment on any strategies implemented by the campaign.
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Business worth billions of dollars done by U.S. companies with countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism -- under exceptions granted for agricultural and medical humanitarian aid -- too often counters U.S. foreign policy goals.
The New York Times reports that the Treasury Department's obscure Office of Foreign Assets Control has granted nearly 10,000 licenses allowing such exceptions to the blacklist. Some exceptions do help - - famine relief in North Korea, democracy-nurturing Internet enhancements in Iran -- but far more, and far too many, do just the opposite.
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The United States removed North Korea from its blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism Saturday, in a last-ditch effort to salvage a nuclear deal with the communist state before President Bush leaves office.
After intensive negotiations, the Bush administration dropped its demand for agreement on a plan to verify the North's recent nuclear declaration before "delisting." But U.S. officials insisted that Pyongyang accepted the required measures, even if a formal "protocol" had not been finalized.
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WASHINGTON -- After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from a terrorism blacklist the communist country President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil.
The U.S. step, assailed by some conservatives who say it is sketchy and rewards North Korea's bad behavior, is aimed at salvaging a faltering disarmament accord before Bush leaves office in January.
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Last Monday on these pages, my article "Blacklist Then and Now" coincidentally appeared the same day as an op-ed penned by screen legend Jon Voight.
Since his Oscar-winning turn in the 1978 antiwar film "Coming Home," the venerable actor has come to the conclusion that he and many in the "so-called peace movement" were manipulated by Marxist propaganda.