452 trade unions, movements, political parties and organizations from tens of countries call on the United Nations General Assembly to investigate Israeli apartheid and impose sanctions.
By waving all this through — refusing either to strike the new material out or grant an adjournment — Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser turbocharged the tradition written about long ago by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, where he described the Old Bailey as, ’a choice illustration of the precept that “Whatever is, is right”’.
It’s a sad day when the U.S. government openly assails the international law it helped to create. But that day came on September 2, 2020 when the U.S. government announced economic sanctions against top officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Now is the time to link the Black Lives Matter Movement with the Peace and Justice Movement, to shout “Demilitarize” “Defund the Police” but also “Defund the Military” as protesters march at the intersection between militarism at home and militarism abroad.
By David Vine, September 9, 2020 From Investigative Reporting Workshop The wars the U.S. government has fought since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have forced 37 million people — and perhaps as many as 59 million — from their
Military veterans have long been resisting war, promoting positive peace, and defending human and civil rights against state violence and other forms of oppression …
