What happened on March 20, 2003 wasn’t a “mistake.” It wasn’t well-intentioned but “unwise.” It was a calculated, premeditated crime perpetrated on a massive scale. Thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died in a war premised on transparently nonsensical lies.
Source: The Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t a “Mistake.” It Was a Crime.
Morrison declaring Ukranians refugees to be first in line in his Australia. Appealing to the racists in this country is nothing new when appealing for votes.
The problem of racism has roots throughout history and is sadly still alive in Western culture and politics, writes Bilal Cleland.
Imagine Israel the newly formed and self-declared Jewish State being brought before the ICC
President Mahmoud Abbas’s UN speech, in which he pledged to take Israel to the International Criminal Court if its squatter-settlements weren’t withdrawn within a year, with widespread acclaim. The International Criminal Court decided in March of this year that it has jurisdiction over the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza because the Palestine Authority has invited it to consider rights abuses there. Palestine is a signatory to the Statute of Rome, which established the ICC at the Hague in the late 1990s, and member states can ask the court to take up cases. Palestine was able to become a signatory because it was granted the status of non-member observer state at the UN by the General Assembly in 2012. This is the same status enjoyed by the Vatican.
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