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War Crimes
July 11, 2023
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Alex Shephard
Biden’s Immoral, Indefensible Decision to Send Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
These munitions have no place in war. Just because Moscow is using them doesn’t mean the U.S. should provide them to Ukraine.
May 27, 2023
Prem Thakker
Happy 100th Birthday, Henry Kissinger
Still a war criminal
March 17, 2023
Prem Thakker
ICC Issues Arrest Warrant for Putin Over War Crimes in Ukraine
The ICC has issued arrest warrants for the Russian leader as well as his children’s rights commissioner.
February 24, 2023
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Aryeh Neier
Will the West Be Serious About Crimes Against Humanity This Time?
In the 1990s, the Western powers were slow to move against Serbian butcher Slobodan Milošević. We can’t make that mistake again.
May 9, 2022
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Thomas Geoghegan
There’s No Good Reason for the United States to Stay out of the International Criminal Court
The war in Ukraine has rivetingly demonstrated how joining the body is in our national interest.
April 18, 2022
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Dahlia Scheindlin
Here’s How to Convict Vladimir Putin of War Crimes
The wheels of international justice grind slowly, but they do grind. The law can catch up with the Russian autocrat.
March 2, 2022
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Brian Till
Is Russia Targeting Ukraine’s Hospitals?
Two hospitals have been hit by bombs over the past week, and past wars show that Putin considers medical facilities to be fair game.
August 7, 2020
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Zack Kopplin
How Mike Pompeo Built a Blood-for-Oil Pipeline
The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.
March 2, 2020
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Adam Weinstein
60 Minutes
Celebrates a War Criminal
Why did the CBS program ignore a historic Afghanistan cease-fire to profile Eddie Gallagher, the Trump-pardoned Navy SEAL?
January 31, 2020
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Jake Bittle
Trump’s War Whisperer
"Fox & Friends Weekend" host Pete Hegseth has the president's ear on military matters.
January 17, 2020
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Matt Farwell
We Have Reached Peak VetBro Brand
The entrepreneurial warriors' space is so saturated that a top shill now wants to make "Veteran" a brand unto itself, with a capital "V."
January 6, 2020
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Matt Ford
Trump’s Next Impeachable Offense is Nigh
Congress may have no other choice but to redeploy the ultimate check against a rogue president bent on committing atrocities.
November 27, 2019
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Waitman Wade Beorn
The War-Crimes Presidency
Believe what you're seeing: Donald Trump wants a brutal, lawless, loyal military.
November 19, 2019
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Matt Farwell
The War Criminals I Have Known
Trump's clemencies were not just to exonerate three trigger-pullers, but to excuse all Americans.
May 20, 2019
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Adam Weinstein
Who Actually Wants War Criminals Pardoned?
Trump's plan to free white service members accused of overseas atrocities both typifies and strengthens his Fox News feedback loop.
April 29, 2019
Annie Hylton
How the U.S. Became a Haven for War Criminals
With former Liberian militia leader Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu soon to be sentenced, others like him remain unprosecuted in the U.S.—even living alongside their victims.
February 24, 2015
Joel Gillin
Why Is the Wall Street Journal Dismissing Colombia's War Crimes?
December 31, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Palestine Has Joined the International Criminal Court. Will Israel Face War-Crime Charges?
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