U.N. Convention Against Torture

2016 U.S. Presidential election, Baltasar Garzón, Barack Obama, CIA, Crimes Against Humanity, Donald Trump, extrajudicial execution, freedom of speech, History, human rights, Intelligence, propaganda, Spain, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, U.N. Convention Against Torture, U.N. Torture Convention, U.S. Military, United Kingdom, war crimes April 11, 2019

When and how did America lose her soul?

America has lost her soul. You feel something is missing, the kind of sense of community that we used to have–20 or 30 or 40…

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CIA nominee is presumptive war criminal; multiple reasons to reject Haspel nomination

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Trump, Russia and the betrayal of American heroes

"that spark of the divine", Barack Obama, Crimea, Crimes Against Humanity, Dictatorship, elections, European Union, History, human rights, internal supporters of human rights, International Law, Iran, NATO, public diplomacy, Russia, sanctions, Soviet Union, syria, Torture, U.N. Charter, U.N. Convention Against Torture, Ukraine, United States, use of force, Vladimir Putin, war crimes

Beyond Trump and the November elections: Is a coherent U.S. foreign policy possible?

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

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REPRISE: If Putin invades Mariupol and seizes a land corridor to the Crimea, what will NATO, the U.S. and the EU do?

Afghanistan, Barack Obama, European Union, extrajudicial execution, extraordinary rendering, extraordinary rendition, France, human rights, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, religious belief, Russia, targeted assassinations, targeted killings, Torture, Turkey, U.N. Convention Against Torture, Ukraine, United States, Vladimir Putin January 8, 2015

Civilization falters, as Russian aggression stands and Islamic terrorism explodes

The Charlie Hebdo massacre by Islamic extremists on January 7 underlines the failure of the West and other civilized countries to win the struggle in…

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