WATCH: Meet Benjamin Netanyahu, Unconvicted War Criminal
The International Criminal Court is supposedly mulling war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking Israeli political and military officials. But what reason could they...
This Week in the New Normal #58
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Ukraine War! What Is It Good For? Propaganda
Iain Davis Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine has been presented to us, in the West, as unprovoked and unjustified. We have not been told about Russia’s legitimate security concerns...
Britannic Impunity: The UK Overseas Operations Bill
Binoy Kampmark It was praised by Michael Clarke, former Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute, as “clear and entirely laudable” – at least up to a point. The...
Ignoring the Elephant at Gitmo: Yet Another 9/11 Crime
Kevin Ryan The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunately, these proceedings do not...
U.S. to ICC: We Will Break Your Legs
Andre Vltchek Well, not exactly like that, but in a way, yes. Now, finally, ‘the gloves are off’. The U.S. is openly threatening the historically timid ICC (International Criminal...
Accountability for War Crimes – USA vs ICC
James O’Neill The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands. It began its jurisdictional life on 1 July 2002, the...
War Criminals Anonymous: A Play in One Act
Hope Kesselring Characters: Ned Diamond – Former Assistant Secretary of State, in his sixties, wearing a WCA T-shirt and camouflage shorts. Michelle Cardiff – CIA officer, about 40, wearing...
Gina Haspel and Pinocchio from Rome
by Edward Curtin Being in Rome, Italy and thinking of Gina Haspel, the CIA nominee and admitted torturer who says her “moral conscience” has changed after the fact, seems...
The Defining Year Was 1991: The Demise of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
by Marcus Papadopoulos, via Global Research Whilst there are no golden ages, it is abundantly clear that the world today is in a very unhealthy state. From Eastern Europe...
US Left, You Have Been Duped
by Richard Hugus, via Dissident Voice On August 19, a week after a heavily publicized clash over a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, an estimated 8,000...
«War in the Balkans» – the Memoirs of a Portugese Peacekeeper (II)
by Stephen Karganovic, July 9, 2017, Strategic Culture In his memoir, «War in the Balkans», (1) retired Portuguese general Carlos Martins Branco, who was during the conflict in the...
«War in the Balkans» – the Memoirs of a Portugese Peacekeeper (I)
by Stephen Karganovic, July 7, 2914, via Strategic Culture General Carlos Martins Branco is one of the most fascinating (and until quite recently also inaccessible) actors in the Srebrenica...
A New Saudi War Crime in Yemen
by Vaska As FortRuss reported on January 6, the Saudi Air Force has bombed a centre for the blind in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, leaving at least 3 dead....
