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![The US has never used the terms genocide or war crimes to define its own historical and current actions.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/11/2018_1126-ch2-400x300.jpg)
Noam Chomsky: How the US “Politically Vulgarizes” Genocide and War Crimes
The US has never used the terms genocide or war crimes to define its own historical and current actions.
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Khashoggi’s Murder and Saudi War Crimes in Yemen Were Facilitated by US
Amid the outcry over Khashoggi's death, many are still failing to acknowledge the US assistance behind Saudi war crimes.
![Displaced Yemeni children from the Hodeidah province are pictured on September 30, 2018, through a hole in a damaged house where they have been living with other displaced families in the southwestern Yemeni city of Taez. The conflict has triggered what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with 22 million people in need of humanitarian aid.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/10/2018_1011-yemen-400x300.jpg)
In Yemen, Trump Is Taking Tolerance for War Crimes to a New Level
Those of us who oppose the war in Yemen must dig in for a serious fight.
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Why Is the Trump Administration Threatening the International Criminal Court?
CounterSpin interviews Jamil Dakwar on the International Criminal Court.
![National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks on a morning television show from the grounds of the White House on May 9, 2018, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-956420030-400x300.jpg)
John Bolton Escalates Blackmail to Shield US War Criminals
Those who committed torture in Afghanistan or killed civilians in Gaza would not be held accountable for war crimes.
![John Bolton, national security adviser, listens during a meeting with Donald Trump and Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House on May 17, 2018, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/09/GettyImages-959602306-400x300.jpg)
Bolton Threatens International Criminal Court Over Probes Into US War Crimes
Human rights advocates decried the Trump administration's efforts to skirt accountability.
![A Yemeni girl raises a poster during a demonstration in Sanaa on August 12, 2018, against an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition that hit a bus, killing dozens of children in the northern Huthi stronghold of Saada.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-1015590478dd-400x300.jpg)
Bombing of Yemen Civilians by US-Backed Coalition Likely Amounts to War Crimes
New report urges the international community to “refrain from providing arms that could be used in the conflict.”
![People are seen near a bus destroyed by an airstrike that killed dozens of children earlier this week, on August 12, 2018, in Saada, Yemen.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-1017746856d-400x300.jpg)
US Leaders Aid and Abet War Crimes in Yemen
The Lockheed Martin bomb that killed 40 children in Yemen was sold as part of a US-Saudi arms deal.
![Yemeni journalist Ahmad Algohbary holds up a piece of the US-made bomb which killed 40 children last week.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/screen_shot_2018-08-18_at_9.51.06_am-400x300.jpg)
US-Made Bomb Hit School Bus in Attack That Killed 40 Yemeni Children
Munitions experts confirmed that a Lockheed Martin-produced bomb was behind the deaths of dozens in last week's attack.
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While US Refuses to Blame Israel, International Court Could Launch War Crimes Probe Into Gaza Killings
Israeli's massacre of Palestinians Monday has sparked widespread international condemnation.