Africa

Afghanistan, Africa, China, coverage of foreign events, Dimming Vision of World Affairs, Donald Trump, European Union, foreign correspondents, foreign news coverage, France, human rights, International Law, Rule of Law, Russia, sanctions, Ukraine March 6, 2019

What is going on in the world?

What is going on in the world? For two years Americans have been lost in an obsessive fixation on their lying president, the investigations into…

"that spark of the divine", Africa, CIA, Dictatorship, elections, extrajudicial execution, extraordinary rendering, extraordinary rendition, human rights, Intelligence, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Latin America, Nobel Peace Prize, religious belief, Rule of Law, Torture, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Intervention

REPRISE: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

Angola, China, Crimes Against Humanity, Egypt, Egypt, International Law, Iran, Lebanon, Russia, syria, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. news coverage, United States, Venezuela, war crimes

Dénouement: Details on make-up and advances of pro-Assad forces closing in on last insurgents in Aleppo; Russia and China veto Security Council resolution

Africa, The Gambia

Democracy Advances and Retreats: The Gambia, Australia, and South Africa

Angola, Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, European Union, France, Germany, human rights, International Law, NATO, Russia, sanctions, Saudi Arabia, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, Turkey, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Congress, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, U.S. news coverage, United States, use of force, Venezuela, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

REPRISE — Civilization falters: Aleppo Burns; Obama looks the other way; Putin threatens, Petraeus underlines feasability of military options; U.S. government paralyzed by Obama’s obstinancy (Updated October 8, 2016)

Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, debate over the efficacy of torture, Deutschland, European Union, France, freedom of speech, genocide, Germany, History, human rights, International Law, Libya, NATO, Russia, Soviet Union, syria, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.N. Convention Against Torture, U.N. Torture Convention, U.S. Congress, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin

International Law and the Descent toward Barbarism: MSF —“Wars are being fought as in ‘barbarian times’

"that spark of the divine", CIA, elections, History, human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, South Africa, U.N. Charter, U.S. Constitution, United States, use of force, vision of peace

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

Deutschland, European Union, Germany, History, Libya, Libya, NATO, Russia, State Department, syria, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Military, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin

Theo Sommer: “The wars come to us.”

Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Egypt, Egypt, European Union, extrajudicial execution, Germany, History, human rights, International Law, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Libya, Middle East, NATO, Nobel Peace Prize, Russia, sanctions, self-defense, State Department, State Department Legal Adviser, syria, Taliban, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, U.N. Charter, U.N. Security Council, U.S. Intervention, U.S. Military, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

Crumbling world order: Power politics and international law—the way forward

Barack Obama, Dictatorship, Egypt, Egypt, human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Russia, U.S. Congress, United States, Vladimir Putin August 26, 2015

Abdel al-Sisi visits Vladimir Putin in Russia: Egypt as a new member of the League of Authoritarian States

Developing Egyptian President Abdel al-Sisi has visited Vladimir Putin in Russia, seeking to build closer relations with the Russian dictator and his authoritarian state. As…

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