For the last 20 years the US has treated the sovereignty of states as conditional, reserving the right to attack when it chooses.
Iraq War lesson: ‘preventative wars’ are illegal wars, period.
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COUNTERPUNCH: Reflections on Law and Punishment
March 11, 2022 By: Alfred de Zayas
Law and punishment are very different concepts and should not be unduly amalgamated. The function of law is the codification of norms, definition of rights and obligations, creation of mechanisms for monitoring and enforcement. Law must be both preventive and curative. It should be proactive and not merely reactive.
COUNTERPUNCH: Reflections on Law and Punishment
More U.S. Murders in the Middle East
By Jacob G. Hornberger | FFF | February 7, 2022
The U.S. national-security establishment and its acolytes in the mainstream press are celebrating the U.S. military’s murder in Syria of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim Hashimi Qurayshi. Mind you, they don’t call it murder. They call it a “targeted killing” of a “bad guy” or a “terrorist.” But murder it is because the U.S. military has no legitimate authority to kill anyone in the Middle East (or anywhere else), whether it be people it labels “bad guys,” “terrorists,” “communists,” “opponents,” “rivals,” “adversaries,” or “enemies.”
More U.S. Murders in the Middle East
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