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Audacious Innovators Take On Broken Immigration System -- Without Asking

Wendy Sefsaf, Immigration Impact. December 9, 2011.

While Freedom University offers undocumented students an education, a new company plans to purchase a boat where high-skilled workers may live and work off-shore.

How Twisted American Exceptionalism Leads to Criminal Behavior on a Global Scale

Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News. June 5, 2011.

The US, whose leaders claim to have the secret to world salvation, corrupts international law to target others while protecting its own nationals from that same law.

Was the Killing of Osama bin Laden Legal?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 11, 2011.

We don't know whether the administration ordered the al Qaeda leader killed, but that hasn't stopped an acrimonious debate.

Stop the Bombing Libya NOW

Marjorie Cohn, War Is a Crime. March 22, 2011.

We should refuse to be complicit in the killing of more civilians in a conflict in which we don’t belong.

The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal and the Flotilla Attack Was an Illegal Act of War

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 5, 2010.

Because the blockade of Gaza itself violates international law, Israel committed an illegal act of war attacking the convoy, regardless of who attacked whom first.

Obama's Af-Pak War is Not Just Deadly and Counterproductive: It's Illegal

Obama's Af-Pak War is Not Just Deadly and Counterproductive: It's Illegal

Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 23, 2009.

Some 30 percent of all U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred during Obama's presidency. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned.

Word "Canadian" So "Reviled in Some Places" that Visiting Canucks Say They're Americans

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 23, 2009.

An odd turn.

Bush Torturers May Face Justice Yet

Willam Fisher, IPS News. April 20, 2009.

Spanish law gives its courts jurisdiction beyond borders in cases of torture, based on a doctrine known as universal justice.

Hillary Clinton's Disdain for International Law -- Change We Can Believe In?

Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. December 1, 2008.

Hillary Clinton is our new Secretary of State -- will she continue the United States' hypocrisy on human rights and the rule of law?

Bush's Unauthorized Attack on Syria Killed Civilians; Dems Silent

Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 10, 2008.

By the time it was over, eight people had been killed, at least seven of whom were civilians, including three children.

Did the Raid Into Syria Signal the Death of International Law?

Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. October 30, 2008.

If standard U.S. military doctrine claims any country can be declared "criminal" and lose its sovereignty, the answer is yes.

Human Rights Atrocities Still go Unpunished in Colombia

Roxanna Altholz, UC Berkeley School of Law. January 28, 2008.

An army general who participated in one of the country's worst massacres in recent history goes free.

A liberal hawk lowers the bar …

Joshua Holland, February 5, 2007.

Joshua Holland: The Washington Post's loathesome Sebastian Mallaby says we can invade anyone we want and still call it an international "intervention …"

Saddam wins big! (And human rights take a thumping)

Joshua Holland, December 28, 2006.

Joshua Holland: Saddam Hussein might have been the first leader to be held accountable for genocide. Instead, he'll go down as a martyr to neocolonialism.

Why won't the media cover this outrageous October Surprise?

Joshua Holland, October 27, 2006.

This is simply unacceptable.

Saddam Hussein to be murdered for the GOP

Joshua Holland, October 23, 2006.

Joshua Holland: Another huge opportunity missed as ideology again trumps common sense...

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