It’s worth imagining Russia imposing starvation sanctions on the U.S., but the U.S. still openly allowing Russian-backed candidates to run in elections. Now imagine those candidates being allowed to win, but still complaining about a lack of “advertising presence.”
Venezuela’s Sore Winners: Opposition, Media Blast Maduro Interference in Barinas Election Won by His Opposition by Joe Emersberger
Tag: International Criminal Court
Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy: Three Possible Answers
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | December 28, 2021
At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of giving Israeli soldiers the space to shoot more Palestinians when existing army manuals had already granted them near-total immunity and little legal accountability?
Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy: Three Possible Answers
Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
BY: ALFRED DE ZAYAS
Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is going on. We witness the hijacking of concepts like democracy, freedom, peace, patriotism, human rights — and their instrumentalization for domestic and geopolitical purposes. We observe a process of language destruction not unlike what Orwell foresaw in his sadly visionary book 1984. “Newspeak” is not the future, it is now, hic et nunc. We recognize it in the jargon of political correctness, the language and practice of the “cancel culture”.
COUNTERPUNCH: Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!
Israel’s secret ‘evidence’ against rights groups is based on torture and lies, and Europeans rejected it — Palestinian leaders tell a DC audience
Asia Times: Probe all war crimes in Afghanistan, no exceptions
The ICC risks damage to its reputation by refusing to investigate alleged crimes committed by the US during the occupation
Asia Times: Probe all war crimes in Afghanistan, no exceptions
Ethiopia: The UN’s Ugly Power Struggle and The TPLF’s Dirty Tactics over Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
How Human Rights Watch favors Israel
Top UN expert: “Israeli settlements do amount to a war crime”
Palestine Information Center – July 10, 2021
GENEVA – A high-level UN human rights expert has called for Jewish settlements to be classified as a war crime, urging the international community to hold Israel accountable for a practice it has long considered illegal.
Top UN expert: “Israeli settlements do amount to a war crime”
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