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Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Non-Violent Resistance in Bil'in in the West Bank2010-02-01
Come to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the non-violent resistance in Bil'in in the occupied West Bank. February 5th from 5 until 6pm at the Iisraeli Consulate 180 Bloor St. W. Toronto.
Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 242014-07-24
On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening s...
Croatia: Judicial harassment of war crimes reporter continues2009-01-15
Zeljko Peratovic is accused of â#odisseminating information likely to upset the populationâ## under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code.
Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes 2014-08-03
International Federation of Journalists
Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment o...
50 Young Israelis Send a Letter to Netanyahu: "We Refuse to Serve in the Occupation Army"2014-03-10
We, the undersigned, intend to refuse to serve in the army and the main reason for this refusal is our opposition to the military occupation of Palestinian territories.
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices2010-06-03
Independent Jewish Voices
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza2009-06-30
Human Rights Watch
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
Israel's attack on Gaza is a 'Pillar of War Crimes', says Jewish human rights group2012-11-15
Independent Jewish Voices
Jewish human rights group criticizes Israel's latest attack.
Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto2009-01-07
Jewish Women for Gaza
A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people...
Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements2009-05-30
Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corpor...
Ricardh J. Goldstone Appointed to Lead Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Gaza Conflict 2009-04-06
United Nations Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council today announced the appointment of Richard J. Goldstone to lead an independent fact-finding mission to investigate international human rights and humanitarian law violations r...
Sources welcomes Independent Jewish Voices2010-05-31
Independent Jewish Voices
Sources welcomes a new member: Independent Jewish Voices. ndependent Jewish Voices represents Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitme...
Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza market2014-08-03
Reporters without Borders
Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Sources Select Resources
Aerial bombing of citiesWikipedia article
Article
The aerial bombing of cities in warfare is an optional element of strategic bombing which was first seen in World War I. The bombing of cities grew to a vast scale in World War II, and is still practi...
The Attack on the People of GazaGo ahead and stop us...
Roberts, Stella
Article
2014
Counterpunch
According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on...
Benign State Violence vs. Barbaric TerrorismPeppe, Matt
Article
2015
Counterpunch
The US and UK target for assassination civilians that allegedly have a connection with ISIS. Such operations are performed without a trial. Peppe discusses how the governments of these countries justi...
Big Papers Want Foreign Companies, Not War Crime Victims, to Sue USJohnson, Adam
Article
2016
FAIR
The editorial boards of the US’s four most influential newspapers joined President Barack Obama in opposition to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, a bill that makes suing Saudi Arabia for...
The Biggest LieFrom Hiroshima to Syria, the Enemy Whose Name We Dare Not Speak
Pilger, John
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Whether or not Bashar al-Assad or the “rebels” used gas in the suburbs of Damascus, it is the US not Syria that is the world’s most prolific user of these terrible weapons.
Bombing Hospitals: 22 People Killed by US Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, AfghanistanKelly, Kathy
Unclassified
2015
CounterPunch
A group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites and string large vinyl banners between the trees outside these buildings which read: "To Bomb This Site Would Be A War Crime." ...
Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in GazaArticle
2015
International Middle East Media Centre
Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprec...
Bringing up the bodies in BosniaVulliamy, Ed
Article
2016
The Guardian Weekly
Using cutting edge scientific research, an international organization is digging up mass graves to give victims' families some sense of closure and justice.
Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombingsDetails on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid
Christoff, Stefan
Article
2014
The Media Co-op
Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies ar...
Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupationArticle
2014
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on...
CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital AttackGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
Much of the world spent the last 48 hours expressing revulsion at the U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. It was quite clear early on that the perpetrator of the attack was the U.S., ...
Comparing evilsDiemer, Ulli
Article
2008
Al-Qaeda is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pursuit of its goals, and the U.S. is willing to kill large numbers of innocent people, including children, in pur...
Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24Sources News Release
Article
2014
On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening s...
Croatia: Judicial harassment of war crimes reporter continuesSources News Release
Article
2009
Zeljko Peratovic is accused of â#odisseminating information likely to upset the populationâ## under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code.
Death of a HeroThe General, The Media Adulation And The Forgotten Victims
Cromwell, David
Article
2013
MediaLens
If all this glorification of a military commander had happened in the North Korean or the Soviet-era press, lavishly praising an 'original' who'd given years of 'patriotic service' in wars abroad, it ...
Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal EnterpriseJohnston, Diana
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Everyone claims to want to end the war in Syria and restore peace to the Middle East. Well, almost everyone.
Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes Sources News Release
Article
2014
International Federation of Journalists
Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment o...
Even Wars Have Rules: a Fact Sheet on the Bombing of Kunduz HospitalKone, Jason
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Doctors Without Borders is calling for an independent fact-finding investigation to ascertain the truth about the events that led to the killing of our colleagues and patients by US.airstrikes on one ...
Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War CrimeThe Experts' Verdict
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2014
Counterpunch
When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definitio...
Evil Takes the High RoadWrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag
ALBERTS, Rev. Williams
Article
2013
Counter Punch
No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
50 Young Israelis Send a Letter to Netanyahu: "We Refuse to Serve in the Occupation Army"Sources News Release
Article
2014
We, the undersigned, intend to refuse to serve in the army and the main reason for this refusal is our opposition to the military occupation of Palestinian territories.
Fighting Secrecy and the National Security StateAn Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
Bernstein, Dennis
Article
2013
Counter Punch
An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systemsIf this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive
Omer, Mohammed
Article
2014
The Ecologist
Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva...
The Gaza PlatformDatabase
2015
Amnesty International
The Gaza Platform is an interactive map of attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August 2014. It enables its users to explore a vast collection of data, collected on the ground by th...
Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our ResponsibilitiesChomsky, Noam
Article
2014
It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than t...
The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacyFalk, Richard
Article
2009
Electronic Intifada
It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but...
Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'Roth, Natasha
Article
2015
+972 Magazine
36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza ...
A history of violence: Growing up in CARSpecogna, Heidi
Article
2017
Aljazeera
A child born from rape and a young gunshot victim grow up amid CAR's cycle of violence.
How Israel Spins War CrimesThe Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities
Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas roc...
How We Fought the WarBob Kerrey's Revolting Medal of Honor
St. Clair, Jeffrey; Cockburn, Alexander
Article
2001
Counter Punch
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vi...
Humanity Imperiled: The Path To DisasterChomsky, Noam
Article
2013
For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more ...
'I Would Have Refused Such An Order' - Former RAF Pilot Gives His View of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In KunduzArticle
2015
Media Lens
In our previous media alert, 'Sick Sophistry', we examined media coverage of the deliberate US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on October 3, 2015. In particular, ...
If John Bolton Is Right, Pearl Harbor Was Perfectly LegalLove, Kary
Article
2018
CounterPunch
Michigan attorney Kary Love explores the legal basis for a pre-emptive attack on North Korea by the USA.
The Iraq War Was an Act of Military Aggression Launched on a False Pretext: Remarks on the Chilcot Inquiry ReportCorbyn, Jeremy
Article
2016
Counter unch
The following is a transcript of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons.
Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rightsDiemer, Ulli (ed.)
Website
2006
Connexions Information Sharing Services
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??Avnery, Uri
Article
2015
Counter Punch
The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These phi...
Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout White, Ben
Article
2014
Middle East Monitor
"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop...
It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War CrimesCockburn, Patrick
Article
2018
CounterPunch
Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.
Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza OffensiveThe International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip
Falk, Richard
Article
2014
The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persist...
Kill Anything That MovesThe Real American War in Vietnam
Turse, Nick
Book
2013
Metropolitan Books
Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequen...
Kunduz Killers Go FreeArticle
2016
MediaLens
On the night of October 3, 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship repeatedly attacked a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Forty-two people were killed and dozens ...
Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of GazaThe Massacre Must Stop
Manduca, Paola; Chalmers, Iain; Summerfield, Derek; Gilbert, Mads; Ang, Swee
Article
2014
A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
The MassacreRothbard, Murray N.
Article
1982
Lewis Rockwell.com
All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly),...
The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
Chediac, Joyce
Article
1992
Maisonneuve Press
I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered...
The Most Moral Army?Avnery, Uri
Article
2017
CounterPunch
War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show...
Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack housesDrone strikes in Pakistan
Ross, Alice K; Serle, Jack
Article
2014
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army Article
2014
Amnesty International
An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left si...
My Lai MassacreSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder conducted by a unit of the U.S. Army on March 16, 1968 of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, all of whom were civilians and a majority of whom were wo...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014Spying, terrorism, and protest
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the ...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017Disobedience
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once pe...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017Secrecy and Power
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
Principles of NurembergSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
1950
U.N. International Law Commission
Profiting from Gaza Children's AgonyVlanza, Vacy
Article
2015
Counter Punch
The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phosphorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilit...
Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1Article
2010
Medialens
We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed ...
Questions about Israel's attack on GazaDiemer, Ulli
Article
2014
Connexions
Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to JustificationGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
When news first broke of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, ter...
Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real OnesArbuthnot, Felicity
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in GazaGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on...
Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in YemenAt Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
Ditz, Jason
Article
2015
Antiwar.com
Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destro...
A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian FacilitiesSchwarz, Jon
Article
2015
The Intercept
The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United StatesMedia Lens
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of Octo...
Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone WarCurrier, Cora
Article
2015
The Intercept
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolve...
Small countries, big crimesDiemer, Ulli
Article
2009
One of the stock phrases Israel’s apologists repeat, parrot-like, is that Israel is "a small country". The idea is to make us feel sympathy for Israel, the plucky little country standing up to dangero...
Somebody Else's AtrocitiesChomsky, Noam
Article
2012
Truthout
Atrocities commited by official enemies are routinely condemned, but atrocities for which our own country is responsible are rarely mentioned.
The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin Wynter, Coral
Article
2013
Links
Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
This is GenocideOn Israel/Palestine
Rohricht, Alyssa
Article
2014
CounterPunch
To call what is going on in Israel and Palestine a “conflict” is to partake in the racist and blatantly false narrative that is being pushed by Israel. When one side fights with stones and homemade ro...
To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in GazaPappe, Ilan
Article
2014
Electronic Intifada
This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hid...
Toronto Star Supports the Perpetrators of War Crimes in UkraineCrazed Warmongers
Annis, Roger
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Toronto Star has distinguished itself for supporting the fundraising projects of Ukraine's extreme-right parties and militias.
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'Cockburn, Patrick
Article
2010
The Independent
The shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new questions about the battle.
Turning Blood into MoneyProfiting from Killing
Vlazna, Vacy
Article
2013
Dissident Voice
Yotam Feldman’s documentary The Lab, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through...
Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza marketSources News Release
Article
2014
Reporters without Borders
Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
US Dispatched a Murderous AC-130 Airborne Gunship to Attack a HospitalLindorff, Dave
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Evidence continues to mount that the US committed a monstrous war crime in attacking and destroying a fully operational hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on the night of Oct. 3, 2015, killing at least 2...
US drone strikes kill 28 unknown people for every intended targetArticle
2014
Reprieve
US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed as many as 1,147 unknown people in failed attempts to kill 41 named individuals, a report by human rights charity Reprieve has found.
US Lies and Excuses for Bombing HospitalCook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patie...
A View from GazaThis Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"
El-Farra, Mona
Article
2014
Common Dreams
In Gaza, recent Israeli military attacks by sea, air and via artillery shells are not part of a war or a military operation though it may look so. It is collective punishment and it is a brutal attac...
War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructureAhmed, Nafeez
Article
2015
The Ecologist
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's wa...
'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty saysArticle
2014
RT
Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for ...
The War Crimes of a Sergeant, the War Crimes of a NationA Double Standard of Justice
McNamara, Tom
Article
2012
CounterPunch
It is alleged that on the evening of March 10-11, 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales left his base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, fully armed and loaded, and murdered 16 civilians in a nearby v...
Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in ShujaiyaAbusalama, Shahd
Article
2014
Countercurrents.org
Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there...
When Phoenix Came to Thanh PhongBob Kerrey and War Crimes as Policy in Vietnam
Valentine, Douglas
Article
2016
Counter Punch
On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vi...
Why Is the U.S. Refusing an Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was an "Accident"?Greenwald, Glenn
Article
2015
The Intercept
In Geneva , Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president specified that the inquiry...
Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?Mundy, Martha
Article
2015
CounterPunch
What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaz...
Sources Bookshelf
Crimes of WarWhat the Public Should Know (Crimes of War project)
Dworkin, Anthony; Gutman, Roy; Rieff, David; Mendez, Sheryl
Book
2007
An A-Z guide to the laws governing armed conflict and their application in practice. The chapters include discussions of the crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law, key terms relating to ...
Manufacturing ConsentThe Political Economy of the Mass Media
Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam
Book
1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets...
Media ThinkWinter, James
Book
2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diver...
The Memory of JusticeOphuls, Marcel (director)
Film/Video
1976
The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime.
Modern WarsThe Humanitarian Challenge
ICIHI
Book
Since 1949, there have been some 150 conflicts, claiming some 20 million victims, most of whom were civilians not combatants. The purpose of humanitarian law is not to suppress war but to attenuate it...
Press for Conversion #44April 2001
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2001
This annual research report by COAT juxtaposes evidence from a variety of sources to demonstrate Canada's complicity in international war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Press for ConversionTo oppose Canadian military exports and promote conversion of military industries and bases. Projects: anti-war toys, nuclear weapons research, links with Third World NGOs, opposing weapons bazaars.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Justice & Attorney General of CanadaThe Department of Justice provides advice and services to federal departments and conducts, as the Attorney General of Canada, litigation on their behalf. The department also has general responsibilit...
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