Ruth Rosen, AlterNet. April 20, 2009. The country I care so much about has breached some of the most important international conventions. Yet no one has been held accountable.
Marjorie Cohn, San Francisco Chronicle. April 10, 2009. They can use "universal jurisdiction," often used to prosecute foreign nationals for crimes that shock the conscience of the global community.
George Bisharat, AlterNet. April 6, 2009. Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 17, 2009. As George W. Bush travels north to give a speech (in exchange for a six-figure speaking fee), Canadians call for his arrest for war crimes.
Garrett Zehr, The Tyee. March 17, 2009. Bush's diplomatic immunity is gone. Protesters are calling for his arrest as he visits Calgary to deliver a speech.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. February 24, 2009. We need a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute criminal lawyers like John Yoo who gave Bush et al legal cover.
Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor. February 16, 2009. Congress passed a law in 2002 enabling the military to storm into Holland to rescue U.S. soldiers held for war crimes. The Dutch want it revoked.
Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. January 26, 2009. Israeli officials are in a frenzy of activity to forestall legal actions abroad over their involvement in the recent Gaza offensive.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 21, 2009. After weeks of denials, the IDF admits forces may have acted in contravention of international law.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. January 19, 2009. So Mr. Obama should reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime.
Ali Gharib, AlterNet. January 15, 2009. In the face of mounting evidence and criticism over the army's use of white phosphorus, the official Israeli line has not changed: Deny, deny, deny.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. January 1, 2009. There is a long list of things Gonzales did wrong. But the underlying crime was against the principle that the U.S. is a country of laws, not men.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 20, 2008. Cheney confessed because he thinks either Bush will pardon him or that Obama won't prosecute him -- but the law would forbid both approaches.
Ian Welsh, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 14, 2008. We cannot just ignore Bush's crimes and incompetence because Obama got elected.
Vincent Bugliosi, Vanguard Press. May 24, 2008. Why do so many in the liberal media simply move on to another topic after stating that Bush took the nation to war based on a lie?
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: War on Iraq. April 10, 2008. What we long suspected, confirmed -- did a war crimes tribunal just get closer?