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Seven Years Later: Our Power, Our Responsibility
This week we mark the 7th anniversary of the day the U.S. government first began warehousing “enemy combatants,” terrorism suspects and hapless wrong-place-wrong-time detainees at Guantánamo. Since then, hundreds of…
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UN Should Investigate War Crimes
Last week, the UN passed a binding resolution calling for “an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire leading to the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza." Resolution 1860 also calls…
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Blackwater Indictment Good Step; Better Law Next Step
In indicting five Blackwater personnel, and accepting a guilty plea of a sixth, for the 2007 Nisour Square shootings resulting in the death of 17 Iraqis, the Justice Department relied…
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Do Desperate Times Really Call For Desperate Measures?
Recently, lawmakers in Mexico have proposed reinstating the death penalty to deal with rising kidnapping and murder rates. According to the LA Times, lawmakers will hear arguments regarding this amendment…
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A presidential pardon would not preclude accountability
The worth of a law is in its enforcement; if a law is not enforced, then it has no more value than a platitude, aspiration, or preference. Because of this…