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Marjorie Cohn

Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the national advisory boards of Assange Defense and Veterans For Peace, and the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues. She is co-host of “Law and Disorder” radio.

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Dec 10, 2017
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Romney the Bully

Last week, I was invited to speak to 40 high school freshman about human rights. When we discussed the right to be free from torture, I asked the…
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Marjorie Cohn,
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May 14, 2012
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The Haditha Massacre: No Justice for Iraqis

Khalid Salman, whose sister and children were killed in a 2005 incident with US Marines, at his family’s cemetery where they are buried in Haditha, Iraq, on November…
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Marjorie Cohn,
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January 31, 2012
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Pressure Israel, Not Iran

Neocons in Israel and the United States are escalating their rhetoric to prepare us for war with Iran. Even the infamous John Yoo, architect of George W. Bush’s…
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Marjorie Cohn,
MarjorieCohn.com
January 18, 2012
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Close the Guantánamo Gulag

A guard tower at Camp Delta, part of the prison facility at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on July 23, 2008. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad…
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Marjorie Cohn,
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January 17, 2012
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Obama’s Legal Duty to Create Jobs Now

The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has…
by
Marjorie Cohn &
Jeanne Mirer,
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August 11, 2011
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Compensate Victims of US Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the chemical warfare program in Vietnam without sufficient remedial action by the US government. One of the most shameful…
by
Marjorie Cohn,
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August 10, 2011
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Avoiding Impunity: The Need to Broaden Torture Prosecutions

(Photo: USMARINE0311 / Flickr) President Barack Obama declared “nobody's above the law” in 2009, as Congress contemplated an investigation of torture authorized by the Bush administration.…
by
Marjorie Cohn,
Jurist
July 9, 2011
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The Responsibility to Protect – the Cases of Libya and Ivory Coast

The United States, France and Britain invaded Libya with cruise missiles, stealth bombers, fighter jets and attack jets. Although NATO has taken over the military operation, US President…
by
Marjorie Cohn,
Marjorie Cohn's Blog
May 16, 2011
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Torture Is Never Legal and Didn’t Lead Us to Bin Laden

Senator John McCain at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Feb. 25, 2009. McCain declared in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, “It was not torture, or…
by
Marjorie Cohn,
Marjorie Cohn.com
May 14, 2011
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Op-Ed

The Targeted Assassination of Osama bin Laden

When he announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by a Navy Seal team in Pakistan, President Barack Obama said, “Justice has been done.” Mr. Obama misused…
by
Marjorie Cohn,
Marjorie Cohn's Blog
May 10, 2011
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