The Pentagon plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by launching a $30 million program to rewrite and sanitize its history.
Human Rights and Global Wrongs
In her column, “Human Rights and Global Wrongs,” legal and political analyst Marjorie Cohn provides a critique of U.S. militarism, racist police violence, immigration policy, torture, the death penalty, surveillance, attacks on whistleblowers, executive branch lawbreaking, the Supreme Court, and violations of U.S. and international law. Truthout is proud to have her in our lineup as a regular commentator.
While no elected leader will admit it publicly, hypocrisy is often a virtue in politics.
Obama declared a perpetual war against anyone he wants anywhere in the world, an action that violates the UN Charter.
A UN Committee has published a scathing denunciation of US failures to honor its treaty commitments to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial…
Israel’s use of overwhelming military force greatly exceeds that of Hamas in Gaza, and constitutes collective punishment of the Palestinian civilian population, which is a war crime.
With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria taking control of vast areas of Iraq, President Obama can elect to prosecute an illegal war – or try something…
The problems with capital punishment go beyond innocent people being executed.
Professor Marjorie Cohn analyzed human rights violations in the Bush and Obama administrations and she continues to write about executive branch lawbreaking in the era of Donald Trump.