“The US and Israel are insisting that not only were the killings legally permissible, but that any questioning of the deaths is tantamount to terrorism itself.”
Read more: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/05/20/israel-us-try-to-block-international-force-for-gaza-strip/
“European Union leaders presented a determined front to stand up to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to penalize EU businesses and scupper the Iran nuclear deal.”
“Trump’s decision to scrap the nuclear deal was sharply criticised by European leaders, who have pledged to uphold their side of the agreement.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/13/us-sanctions-european-countries-iran-deal-donald-trump
“The biggest importer of Iranian oil is China. There are also efforts being made by China, the world’s second largest economy, to trade oil in yuan.”
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/europe-pay-iran-euros-oil-abandoning-dollar-2681417
“Torture was illegal in 1946. It was illegal in 1968. And it was illegal in 2002, no matter what Bush Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee said.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-case-against-gina-haspel/
“Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail ‘the killing and maiming of children’ on a mass scale, Blitzer’s words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners’ war crimes abroad.”
“Russia’s ambassador to the Netherlands said the video was ‘staged’ by the White Hemets, a Syrian aid group that receives funding from the U.S. and other Western governments.”
“A draft bill touted as reigning in the AUMF allows the President to proclaim new enemies against whom any amount of force may be used, requiring two-thirds of Congress to reject that determination.”
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/04/23/carnage-unleashed-dod-aumf
“Where the U.S. stands on this 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: in a war without end, without boundaries, without limits on time or geography.”
Read more: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/03/19/iraq-15-accumulated-evil-of-the-whole/
“No crime, however horrific, can justify wars on countries and people who were not responsible for the crime committed, as former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz patiently explained to NPR at the time.”