DhafirTrial

By Neil Mackay Sunday Herald 8/06/06

The Lebanese government is working behind the scenes to bring Tony Blair before the Scottish courts, charged with war crimes for aiding and abetting the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon. (more…)

Seeking Justice Abroad

By CATHERINE NORRIS Counterpunch 8/6/06

While the abuses at Guatanamo Bay and other setbacks for human rights are often in today’s headlines, one of the most important international victories for the respect of human rights in recent years is going largely unreported (more…)

Professor Steve Trevillion The Guardian Letters 8/3/06

The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb, smouldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and the loss of life is not simply “disproportionate”. It is, according to existing international laws, a war crime. (more…)

Cheney-Specter Spy Deal Threatens Basic Constitutional Freedoms

by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Global Research 8/1/06

A disturbing deal cut by Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter is moving through the Senate Judiciary Committee toward the Senate floor. This horrible bill would set government spies loose in new ways that further undermine our constitutional freedoms. (more…)

By Tahir M. Qazi, MD Axis of Logic 8/3/06

Former Unocal consultant Hamid Karzai who came to be known to the world as the President of Afghanistan has risen to this position with the help of US. It seems his government in Kabul is a marionette (more…)

Felicity Arbuthnot Uruknet 8/5/06

The Geneva Convention (Protocol 1: Additional to the Geneva Convention, 1977) is explicit : ‘It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensible to the survival of the civilian population (more…)

Academic Freedom After 9/11

By NEVE GORDON  Counterpunch 8/5/06

Immediately after September 11, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), founded by Lynn Cheney and Senator Joseph Lieberman, published a report accusing universities of being the weak link in the war against terror (more…)

By George Galloway MP ICH 8/4/06

“Expanding and strengthening” the onslaught against the people of Lebanon. That was Israel’s response to the international outcry over the slaughter of 56 civilians, most of them children, in Qana. (more…)