The fact that our government and institutional media downplay accurate casualty figures only makes it more urgent to find them, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies.
How Many People Have the U.S. & Israel Killed in Iran?
Category: Civil Rights
Killing & Indifference
Andrew P. Napolitano has questions about the violations of the U.S. Constitution and established jurisprudence and the conduct of Congress and the Trump administration.
UN Rights Chief Blasts Israel’s New Death Penalty Law
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk says the application of Israel’s new death penalty law to residents of the occupied Palestinian territory would constitute a war crime.
Judge May Reconsider Dismissing Maduro’s Case
While affirming that the right to present a defense is “paramount,” the judge in New York refused to dismiss the case against the president and first lady of Venezuela — for now, writes Marjorie Cohn.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A German Journalist’s ‘Civil Death’
Hüseyin Dogru is the first E.U. citizen to be sanctioned by the union and the first journalist to land on the list because of his work. What is Dogru’s crime? Don’t ask: He has not committed one.
US Immigration’s Expanding Gulag
It’s no exaggeration to say that ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration, writes Rebecca Gordon.
War & Morality
In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. This is not the case with Trump’s war on Iran.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: The Anti-Semitism Trap
The Trump administration sued Harvard University on Friday for supposedly tolerating anti-semitism in a serious confusion between protesting genocide and hating Jews. Here is a look at the history of this phenomenon.
Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee
The government is threatening to change the FCC’s equal-time rule and even put broadcast giants out of business because they may paint the war in Iran in an unflattering light, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Chris Hedges: The World According to Gaza
The events of the last few years: Gaza, the Epstein files and more, have revealed that the new order of things is the open predation of the powerful on the rest of us.