Sanctions on Iran are killing children. US Sanctions on Iran are Hurting the Young and the Sick Sun, 08/12/2012 - 12:20 by: Dave Lindorff Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright should be a happy camper: Another campaign of sanctions and embargoes by the US is about to start killing children, this time in Iran.
Albright, as President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, when interviewed on CBS’s news magazine program “60 Minutes” back in 2000, was asked by reporter Lesley Stahl about reports that US sanctions on Iraq had led to the deaths of some 500,000 Iraqi children because of shortages of medicine and things like chlorine for treating water supplies. Protests, Self-Immolation Signs Of A Desperate Tibet. Hide captionThis photo, provided to freetibet.org, shows a man being forcibly detained by security forces in the town of Serther in Tibet following a clash with protesters and police. freetibet.org.
U.S. support for attacking Iran would be illegal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington has provoked a broad debate over the military and political wisdom of an attack on Iran.
But so far, there has been little attention to the legal issues involved, which are crucial. American support for a preemptive strike would be a violation of both international law and the U.S. The World's 10 Most Wanted. The World's Most Wanted Fugitive is a list published by the American publishing and media company Forbes.
The list contains ten fugitives that Forbes, with the help of international law enforcement agencies, deems as the world's most wanted. The list was first published in April 2008. Joseph Kony. Joseph Kony (pronounced IPA: [koɲ];[7] born sometime between July and September 1961)[1] is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group which used to operate in Uganda.
While initially purporting to fight against government suppression, the LRA allegedly turned against Kony's own supporters, supposedly to "purify" the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy.[2] Kony proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, and has been considered by some as a cult of personality, and claims he is visited by a multinational host of 13 spirits, including a Chinese phantom.[2] Ideologically, the group is a syncretic mix of mysticism, Acholi nationalism, Islam, and Christian fundamentalism, and claims to be establishing a theocratic state based on the Ten Commandments and local Acholi tradition.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Biography Early life Rebel leader. Debating Materials - University of Macau English Debate.
Debates: Syria: Statements. Welcome to Post-Legal America by Tom Engelhardt. Is the Libyan war legal?
Was bin Laden’s killing legal? Is it legal for the president of the United States to target an American citizen for assassination? Were those “enhanced interrogation techniques” legal? These are all questions raised in recent weeks. Each seems to call out for debate, for answers. Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism - Obama’s war record …in one place. FrontPage Magazine. War Powers Showdown. Pages: 1 2 Things are heating up over Libya and I do not mean just NATO’s sustained aerial bombing campaign.
President Obama is facing a challenge in Congress and in court over his failure to seek congressional authorization for U.S. military involvement in the Libyan war in accordance with the United States Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. And while the Obama administration seems to think that all it needs to do is to act within the authority granted by the United Nations Security Council, tempers are beginning to fray at the Security Council, too, as the war drags on. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent a letter to President Obama on June 14th warning the White House that its continued deployment of U.S. military troops in the North African country appeared to violate the law requiring any U.S. president, within 60 days of his the launching of a military engagement, to secure congressional authority for doing so.
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Seventeenth century and earlier[edit] 44 BC – Assassination of Julius Caesar (Rome, Roman Republic). Rioting spreads to third British city - World news - Europe. Top 10 Military Powers in the World. Top 10 Failing Nations. Politics The fourth of July has passed yet again with celebrations all over the United States.
However, some people in other nations have nothing to celebrate. This list looks at 10 of the poorest, most impoverished nations on earth. There is not likely to be much dispute about the countries listed here being suited to this list, but do feel free to add any others you may think should be here to the comments. The Ivory Coast is recovering from violence which began when Alassane Ouattara, a presidential candidate, won the national election by a small, but internationally certified, margin.
When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, we did not know that we would be there for so long. Central African Republic. Israeli Massacres.