The administration didn’t dispute there’s an ongoing genocide, writes Marjorie Cohn. But the three-judge appeals panel appeared unmoved by the plaintiffs’ contentions the Biden administration is complicit in Israel’s genocide.
Some of the nations that have banded together to defend the U.N. Charter — particularly Russia and China — have provided Venezuela with alternatives to the U.S.-dominated financial and trade system, writes Vijay Prashad.
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ case against the U.S. president and secretaries of state and defense seeks an emergency injunction to stop aiding Israel’s bombing.
Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide, writes Marjorie Cohn. The General Assembly also has an option left.
Biden, Blinken and Austin are being named in court — as well as in the streets around the world — for their unwavering and illegal support of Israeli genocide, writes Marjorie Cohn.
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner.
Call it the new American isolationism, writes William J. Astore. Only this time the country — while pumped up with pride in its “exceptional” military — is isolated from the harrowing and horrific costs of war itself.