Still In Vietghanistan by Abby Zimet With ongoing news of atrocities by U.S. forces and a new poll finding that just 23% of Americans, the lowest rate ever, support the Afghanistan War, a former Marine in Vietnam and currentVeterans For Peace president wonders why people ask him about the “rules of war” governing dead bodies – as though there [...]
Wait a minute: that’s the WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” video! The gunsight view of an Apache helicopter opening fire from half a mile high on a crowd of Iraqis — a few armed men, but mostly unarmed civilians, including a couple of Reuters employees — as they unsuspectingly walked the streets of a Baghdad [...]
Geneva Conventions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Geneva Convention: The signature-and-seals page of the First Geneva Convention (1864), establishing humane rules of war. The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the [...]
Round Up the Usual Suspects … and Shoot Them By DOUGLAS LUMMIS The issue is not whether bin Laden was a very bad man (I suppose he was) or for that matter whether Barack Obama is also a very bad man (looking worse all the time), but what happens to the law when states violate [...]
