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• 60 Years Geneva Conventions

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  The history of the Geneva Conventions goes back further than the current version. Swiss merchant Henry Dunant had been an eyewitness to the battle of Solferino in 1859, not as a combatant, but as a bystander during his travels through Europe. What he saw shocked and saddened him, and he published a book ‘My ...
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• CIA agents guilty of Kidnapping

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 132
  This is a story that hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention as it should have:An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.BBC Article for a good medium length summary.The CIA personnel were involved ...
  4 days ago

• Six Questions for Desmond Travers on the Goldstone Report

  
  Patrick J. Buchanan — Authority: 604
  Web Note: Here’s a link to the official Goldstone Report By Ken Silverstein – Harpers Magazine Desmond Travers was one of the four members of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which produced the controversial Goldstone Report. Travers is a retired Colonel of the Army of the Irish ...
  5 days ago

• Israel-Palestine: UN General Assembly Endorses Goldstone Report on Gaza

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 633
  Palestine: The Reactions to the Election Bluff of Mahmoud Abbas U.S. House of Representatives Opposes the Goldstone Report Israel-Palestine: Clinton’s Cairo Visit Pushes Talks Into the Distance Receive our latest updates by email or RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help ...
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• Is it Fair for George W. Bush to Remain ‘Outside Prison Bars’?: OEA Libya, Libya

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 730
  Coming from a state-controlled mouthpiece of Muammar Gaddafi’s despotic regime, some may scoff at this article calling for President Bush to be brought before the International Criminal Court and charged with war crimes. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the sentiments expressed by OEA Libya’s Ali Mar’i ...
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• Did Richard Goldstone hide more sinister crimes in Gaza? – Part 1: White Phosphorus and Flechettes By Peter Eyre

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 148
  There was much praise for the UN investigations into war crimes committed in Gaza, led by Richard Goldstone. However, I feel that this report did not go far enough to investigate some other more serious allegations that were made.
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• Guantanamo: No Cause, No Problem

  
  Addiction in the 21st Century — Authority: 120
  See also – No Flu, No ProblemThis story was co-published with Slate.Read our summary of the judge’s remarkable ruling, which we’ve also posted in full. When President Obama took office and ordered the detention center at Guantanamo closed by next January, the biggest challenge was supposed to be the hard cases. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Love of the Land: The Times: Reinterpreting International Law

  
  Rick's Caf American — Authority: 162
  The Times: Reinterpreting International Law Media Critiques/Honestreporting.com 15 October 09 The Timess correspondent opposes Israeli settlements by misrepresenting the Geneva Conventions. When do journalists become experts in "international law"? The Timess James Hider writes an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ingrid Betancourt and Gilad Shalit.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 132
  One of my readers kindly reminded me, I had forgotten that Gilad Shalit had French citizenship, with that in mind the situation of Ingrid Betancourt is pertinent. She was kidnapped by FARC whilst out campaigning in 2002. This BBC News article marked her 1000th day in captivity yet you would search high and low to [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Flashback: Homo IDF Officer Rapes Teenager, Everybody Tries to Cover Up

  
  Palestine Think Tank — Authority: 521
  In Palestine, under the Israeli occupation and the boundless criminal practices of the IDF, every unimaginable and never heard of horror is possible, while outside, most people never know or even  imagines these things to be possible. In Palestine it is not enough to steal the land, to build colonies for Jewish ...
  5 weeks ago

• Flashback: Homo IDF Officer Rapes Teenager, Everybody Tries to Cover Up

  
  Kawther Salam The Daily Life of Kawther Salam — Authority: 118
  In Palestine, under the Israeli occupation and the boundless criminal practices of the IDF, every unimaginable and never heard of horror is possible, while outside, most people never know or even  imagines these things to be possible. In Palestine it is not enough to steal the land, to build colonies for Jewish ...
  5 weeks ago

• Devastating Report Documents Israeli Crimes Against Civilians in Gaza: Where’s the Outrage?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  The Goldstone report has been denounced in Israeli and ignored by the U.S. press, unless you count the NY Daily News , which called it a “blood libel against Israel.” By Roane Carey , The Nation . Posted September 26, 2009. The recently released UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on the ...
  5 weeks ago

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