Feeling fierce with loathing He looked down upon the father ashen face twisted in panic as he grappled for his son shielding him with shaking arm Feeling fierce with loathing He looked down upon the son quaking with fear struggling closer to his father’s form ensnared by the cold concrete Feeling fierce with loathing […]
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Daniel Patrick Welch That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia That’s the night that they killed an innocent man. Well, don’t trust your soul to no backwoods, southerly lawyer ‘Cos the judge in the town’s got blood stains on his hands –Vicki […]
Goodbye to International Law – An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – The Erosion Universal Jurisdiction Back on 12 February 2011 I put out an analysis on the subject of Universal Jurisdiction. Here is the first paragraph from the piece: “One of the really progressive acts that followed the end of World […]
Steps to UN membership for Palestine By David Morrison Summary In September, Palestinians intend to apply for UN membership for a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders, that is, in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Palestinian territories under Israeli military occupation since 1967. It is expected that the US will […]
29 years after the Massacre at Sabra Shatila By Franklin Lamb “The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind” was the general consensus following a discussion between this observer and a gathering of Palestinian refugees in Sabha, Libya, many of whom would very much like to travel to Shatila camp in Beirut this week and […]
(Beirut, 16 September 2011) The Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions ended in Beirut today with a strong international declaration to rid the world of cluster munitions. The 90 States Parties and signatories to the Convention at the meeting adopted the Beirut Declaration, which notes the lifesaving gains made already […]
Ignorance and 9/11 – An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson Part I On Monday 12 September 2011 I had sixty five students in a “Twentieth Century World” history class ask me what I thought were the origins of the 9/11 attacks. I said I was quite willing to tell them what I thought, but […]
Afghanistan ratifies cluster bomb ban despite U.S. pressure Country where cluster bombs have killed hundreds becomes State Party on eve of international conference by the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) (Beirut, Lebanon, 12 September 2011): Afghanistan, which has witnessed the devastation cluster munitions cause, has become the 62nd state party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions […]
