October 14, 2005 By Brendan Smith, Jill Cutler & Jeremy Brecher If Harriet Miers’s appointment to the Supreme Court is confirmed, she will take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But if it comes to a conflict between the Constitution and… Read More »
HOW THE WORLD CAN HELP AMERICANS HALT BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAR CRIMES
June 14, 2005 By Brendan Smith, Jill Cutler & Jeremy Brecher On May 17 a legal summons was delivered to U.S. and UK embassies in capitals around the world, including Istanbul, Tokyo, Lisbon, and Brussels,on behalf of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI). The summons requested the attendance of President Bush and… Read More »
AN “AFFIRMATIVE MEASURE” TO HELP PREVENT THE COMMISSON OF WAR CRIMES BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
December 12, 2004 “In the U.S., activists can draw on the immensely powerful tradition of disobedience to unjust law that motivated people such as the abolitionists, Henry David Thoreau, the Quakers, and the Berrigan Brothers. Indeed, this kind of resistance might be the key to stopping not only the imperial drive but also the… Read More »
AMISTAD REVISITED AT GUANTANAMO?
December 5, 2003 In the 1841 Amistad case – vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Amistad” – the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human rights and the rule of law must apply to captives who had been seized in Africa and imprisoned in the United States. The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear… Read More »
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