Category Archives: The erosion of international law

Real Americans Question 9/11

Posted on by April 17, 2017

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights described how the Constitution had been shredded based on assumptions about the 9/11 attacks. By then, it had also become clear that the government was actually giving aid and comfort to the enemy (violating Article 3) through arming and training terrorists. One might think it obvious that stopping such actions would be the goal of all Americans but to do so one Congress member has had to spell it out in legislation.

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Fifteen years of U.S. crimes in Afghanistan

Posted on by November 8, 2016

Millions of Afghans have had their lives permanently changed by the U.S. war, which marked its 15th anniversary on Oct. 7 — an unpropitious date that came and went with little attention in the media, and virtually no acknowledgment by major American politicians. More than a decade of nonstop war has pushed Afghanistan to the brink of catastrophe. And things are getting worse, not better.

At least 220,000 Afghans were killed in the first 12 years of the war, in a conservative estimate, according to a report by the Nobel Prize-winning organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

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Unlawful Resolutions of the Security Council and their Legal Consequences

Posted on by July 23, 2015

Resolutions of the Security Council might violate rules of dispositive law and thos of peremptory nature as well. States being convinced that the Security Council disregards peremptory norms of international law and, therefore, taking the position to the not obliged to respect these resolutions, are under the duty to inform the Security Council about their scruples. they ahve to warn the Security Council before, unilaterally, acting against the order of a resolution.

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Is media just another word for control?

Posted on by April 4, 2014

A recent poll asked people in Britain how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The answers they gave were shocking. A majority said that fewer than 10,000 had been killed. Scientific studies report that up to a million Iraqi men, women and children died in an inferno lit by the British government and its ally in Washington. That’s the equivalent of the genocide in Rwanda. And the carnage goes on. Relentlessly.

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Questions to readers

Posted on by February 8, 2014
Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

10 challenging questions for readers 1. On what base did the Security Council determine in the morning of September 12, 2001, that the mass murder of the previous day was an act of “international” terrorism?2. On what evidence did the … Read more . . .

When the Law Goes Flat

Posted on by April 10, 2008

When the Law Goes Flat Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor "The Crisis Papers." July 26, 2004 http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/rule-of-law.htm   Something much more profound underlies this terrible episode [at Abu Ghraib prison]. … Read more . . .

The Patriot Act: How it effects you

Posted on by April 10, 2008

The Patriot Act: How it effects you Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter Amereican Chronicle, February 15, 2008 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/52560 The Patriot Act was passed into law on October 24, 2001 by the Congress of the United States, just 45 days after the … Read more . . .

Judges can still punish acquitted defendants

Posted on by April 10, 2008

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus1apr01,1,1982520.story Judges can still punish acquitted defendants In refusing to consider a Wisconsin man's appeal, the Supreme Court says jurists can issue prison sentences even if the jury has cleared a defendant of certain crimes. By David G. Savage, Los … Read more . . .

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials

Posted on by April 10, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/washington/09justice.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times April 9, 2008 WASHINGTON ? In 2005, federal authorities concluded that a Monsanto consultant had visited the home of an Indonesian official and, with the approval … Read more . . .