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Statement by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The situation in the occupied Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires urgent attention.
“A Place of Indescribable Loss”: As Ceasefire Talks Begin, Israel Bombs Hospital, Mosques and Homes
The Israeli assault on Gaza has entered its third week as the Palestinian death toll has topped 600, mostly civilians. More than 100 of the dead are children.
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Israel’s Grinding Ground War in Gaza
For there to be a viable Palestine, Israel and the international community must recognize Hamas as a valid political interlocutor.
Children’s Lives in the Balance: Is One Worth More Than Another?
Despite the tragedy of the crimes and the desperate desire to find the perpetrators, would civilized society countenance the widespread ransacking of property, imprisonment of hundreds and the death …
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Tony Blair – War Criminal, Narcissist, Cult of Personality
They used to say that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were the great losers of the 20th Century, but that's just convenient Anglophone propaganda.
Accountability for the War in Iraq
The current level of violence in Iraq has a single root: the destabilizing act in 2003 of illegally invading and then occupying Iraq ordered by the George W. Bush …
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William Rivers Pitt | They Belong in Prison, Not on TV
"I spent the first decade of the 21st century dealing with these blood-sodden bastards from the Bush administration. Now, it appears, I will spend a chunk of a second …
Dick Cheney Should Be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials
Dick Cheney should be rotting in a prison cell at The Hague, not writing editorials for the Wall Street Journal.
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How to Forgive Your Torturer
Dick Cheney, instead of being indicted as a war criminal, sneeringly claims to anyone who asks him that “enhanced interrogations” have been and still are absolutely necessary to keep …
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The Life and Crimes of War Criminal Bosco Ntaganda
Yet despite a well documented record of slaughter and recruiting child soldiers, there were some protections in place for Ntaganda.