Canada Sanctions Two Sri Lankan Ex-Presidents for Rights Violations The Canadian government has taken a major step by imposing sanctions against two former Sri Lankan presidents, the brothers Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and two former soldiers.
Ukraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians (Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has wrought a devastating toll on civilians and shattered civilian life in much of the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. Russian forces have committed apparent war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, summary executions,
Israel, our duty our dilemma Transcription of this interesting video about Israel history by Ted Pike.
What good are psychedelic humanities? The revival of psychedelic research has been dominated by the biomedical sciences.Yet it raises questions that cannot be answered by laboratory experiments and clinical trials alone.
Tenney: Omnibus Throws away Leverage to Fix Energy Policy and Give Us Leverage in War in Europe On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep.
Has South Sudan’s Conflict Really Ended? December 15 marks the anniversary of South Sudan’s descent into a brutal civil war, a conflict in which all parties have committed abuses amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Briefing Note on the Call for a War Crimes Court for Liberia Widespread and systematic violations of international human rights and humanitarian law characterized Liberia’s two brutal armed conflicts, which took place between 1989 and 2003.
The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State With the lifting of the thousands of regulations by which our lives were ruled for two long years there has been an understandable desire to believe that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ is over and we will return to something like an albeit new normal. But as new crises have sprung up
Syria: Cluster Munitions Used in November 6 Attacks (Beirut) – Attacks by the Syrian-Russian military alliance on November 6, 2022, used banned cluster munitions on four camps for internally displaced people, Human Rights Watch said today.
Afghan Child Custody Case Exposes US Wartime Abuses On September 5, 2019, US armed forces and Afghan allies carried out a night raid on a rural hamlet in southern Afghanistan.
How the US Government is Waging War on its Veterans >“For soldiers … coming home is more lethal than being in combat.”Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston The US government is still waging war on America’s military veterans.Especially veterans who exercise their First Amendment right to speak out against government wrongdoing. Consider: we raise our
Is Germany Finally Dealing With Its Abusive Colonial History? A top German official gave a strong speech on the need for Germany to reckon with its abusive colonial past in Cameroon, a German colony between 1884 and 1919, and other former German colonies.
Ivan Mishukov: The Incredible Story of the Russian Street Boy Who Lived with Dogs Ivan Mishukov’s story is one Charles Dickens would find hard to believe.
In Post-Coup Myanmar: ‘Death Squads’ and Extrajudicial Killings It was late at night on June 21 when about 20 armed men arrived at a home in a remote part of southern Myanmar.