Showing posts with label war crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war crimes. Show all posts
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Keeping up with appearances

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Earlier this week China lost a dispute over control of parts of the South China Sea . The Philippines filed suit in an international tribuna...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

On torture, war crimes and hypocrisy

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So Democrats in Congress are up in arms about revelations that our government tortured inmates as part of the War on Everything Terror. It...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Serving two masters

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I will  prescribe  regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and  never do harm  to anyone. -- Hippocra...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Missing the point entirely

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A little bit over a week ago Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released reports that humanized the victims of US drone attacks ...
Monday, September 30, 2013

The double standard of international law

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Charles Taylor will spend the next 50 years (should he live that long) cooling his heels in a prison in England , not because he committed w...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Two wrongs don't make a right

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The Congress shall have the power ... [t]o declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal,  and make rules concerning captures on land a...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

The high price of exposing the truth

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Yesterday Col. Denise Lind sentenced Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for exposing the truth . He exposed the lies, deceit and criminal...
Friday, December 14, 2012

The (show) trial of the century

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US Army Col. James Pohl is faithfully doing the bidding of his masters . The man who will preside over the trial, in military court, of Khal...
Friday, September 21, 2012

When the chickens come home to roost

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Back in 2003, Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric living in Italy, was kidnapped, flown back to Egypt and tortured. The kidnappers were 23 American...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Priorities, priorities

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He further considered whether the prosecution of the defendant in furtherance of the protection of the rights of others was “necessary in ...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Guilty, as charged

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Our Constitution provides that anyone accused of a crime will be afforded due process of law (now that's a moving target). That means th...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

How much is a life worth?

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On November 19, 2005, in the Iraqi city of Haditha, a bomb went off and killed an American soldier, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. In the a...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Letting go doesn't mean forgetting

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The constant clamor for a guilty verdict before the evidence has even been presented. The call for someone to pay for what happened. A verdi...