The Wall street Journal reported today that the Bush Administration "blocked a Marine Corps lawyer from testifying before Congress... that severe techniques employed by U.S. interrogators derailed his prosecution of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist..."
Source: Guardian Unlimited
The fate of more than 60 Iraqis being held by British forces is in the balance after hearings this week before the law lords of potentially huge significance for the conduct of future international military operations abroad.
Source: The Palestine Information Center
Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on right to food, castigated the Israeli occupation and described it as the only "colonial regime" which refuses to abide by any international law, calling on the UN to adopt an effective policy forcing Israel to respect human rights and th …
Source: RINF
Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court.
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conceded on Thursday that there was a "hole" in United States law that had allowed Blackwater USA employees and other armed contractors in Iraq to escape legal jeopardy for crimes possibly committed there.
Source: Aish.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent visit to the United States and the UN was no less than a three-act play in the Theater of the Absurd.
Source: The New York Times
Last year, Congress instructed the Defense Department to draw up rules to bring the tens of thousands of contractors in Iraq under the American laws that apply to the military, but the Pentagon so far has not acted.
Source: Asia Release
FRANKFURT, GERMANY--(Marketwire - September 04, 2007), 4 September 2007 -- King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that it has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, further expanding its international footprint to four offices outside the United State …
Source: dreadnaught.wordpress.com
Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali or the Butcher of Kurdistan receives the death penalty.
Source: WorldNetDaily
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America summit in Canada released a plan that established U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S.
Source: The Indianapolis Star
The law of the sea convention is due to be voted upon in the senate. Approval of the international treaty is in our interest economically and militarily
Source: Wired News
Interesting and informative article about how hackers took down an entire country. It is being called the first "web war". The country was attacked by a rogue computer network known as a botnet.
"The best defence of our security lies in the spread of our values. But we cannot advance these values except within a framework that recognizes their universality. If it is a global threat, it needs a global response, based on global rules." - Tony Blair, 5th of March 2004.
Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
The White Rose was a student resistance group in Nazi Germany. Their 4th leaflet talked about the need to put Hitler on trial.
Source: writ.news.findlaw.com
On July 16, a lawyer in Israel filed a class action suit against the German government on behalf of "second-generation" victims of the Holocaust.
Source: Independent.co.uk
Russia has taken a giant leap for the Kremlin by planting its flag on the ocean floor under the North Pole in a politically charged symbolic gesture to claim the rights to the sea bed which could be rich in oil and gas.
Source: web.israelinsider.com
Russian-Israeli businessman and politician Arcadi Gaydamak could be extradited to France and be tried on a number of serious charges including weapons trafficking and misappropriation of funds, police said Monday, reported the Jerusalem Post.
Source: The Washington Post
President Bush set broad legal boundaries for the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yesterday, allowing the intelligence agency to resume a program that was suspended last year after criticism that it violated U.S. and international law.
Source: CBC
The plan to grant Kosovo independence through the UN Security Council failed Friday in the face of Russian opposition, the U.S. and European sponsors of a resolution on the region's future said.
Source: The Age
Warning: this article contains some graphic depictions that some may find disturbing. BEFORE he deserted the US Marines, Dean Walcott rode shotgun on besieged convoys to Baghdad and spent a second Iraq tour setting up military communications.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
The "family jewels" represent a depressing picture of national security crimes, including drug experimentation on unwitting victims that was redacted from the release of the documents.
Source: Haaretz
Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns and Israel Defense Force artillery strikes near populated areas in northern Gaza constitute serious violations of the laws of war, a leading human rights group said in a report released Sunday.
Source: Environmental Justice Foundation
Instead of the skull and crossbones, today's pirates fly Flags of Convenience.
There is a lot of talk about lawful and unlawful combatants, or unprivileged belligerents as some texts refer to them, this is a pretty basic rundown to what the term combatant means.
If you want to torture yourself try and write an article about the Law of War aka the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) into one short concise piece.