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International law needs international enforcement
International law needs international enforcement by Lawrence S. Wittner 979 words Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law?which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs?is crumbling. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after thousands of years of violent
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Open letter to Pete Hegseth on targeting civilians
Open letter to Pete Hegseth on targeting civilians by Russell Vandenbroucke 551 words Dear Secretary Hegseth: At Wednesday’s press conference, you answered a question about a reported strike on a girls’ school in Iran, “We’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets.” I am glad you are investigating but hasten to add why “of course”
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War in Iran: When ‘operations’ kill — The permanent harm behind sanitized violence
War in Iran: When ‘operations’ kill — The permanent harm behind sanitized violence by George Cassidy Payne 742 words When a bomb falls on a school, a hospital, or a home, no euphemism can soften the truth. Babies die in incubators. Teenage girls die in classrooms. Civilians experience violence not as a “military operation” or