Belgian authorities have refused to name the arms firms that exported the goods amid the opening of a criminal investigation into the matter, John McEvoy reports.
UK Arms Shipment to Israel Seized in Belgium
Category: Legal
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.
Craig Murray: The Strait of Hormuz & the Law
Tehran has every right under international law to close the Strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict.
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.
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.
Jonathan Cook: BBC’s Protection of Israel on Trial
Raffi Berg may be fighting in court for damages, but it’s really the BBC in the dock for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Pedro Sánchez’s ‘No a la Guerra’
Spain’s leader, with his government and his people, is signaling that the time has come to challenge the trans–Atlantic status quo and ultimately the world order altogether.
WATCH: ‘Don’t Forget Epstein’
The war in Iran has knocked the Epstein files off the front page. We are here to remind you of its enduring importance in this in-depth interview with author Nick Bryant.