Tag: human rights

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Ukraine Withdraws From The Ottawa Convention: A Step Back For Humanitarian Law

Ukraine’s decision to suspend its participation in the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel mines is both unexpected and deeply alarming for the international community. Officially known as the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, the treaty has been signed […]

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Making It Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction.  As the economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen so powerfully showed in Poverty […]

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Answering Boris Johnson, About Ukraine

“By getting Ukraine into Nato, we would send the crucial message to the Kremlin, the one Russians really need to hear. The message is: that’s it. It’s over. You don’t have an empire any more.” … Putin thought that aggression would pay off. Boris Johnson, “It’s time to let Ukraine join […]

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Merz Justifies Israel

At the end of July, Friedrich Merz held a major press conference. For several hours, the Chancellor answered journalists’ questions. He paid no attention at all to possible peace agreements between Russia and Ukraine. Instead, the focus was on introducing new sanctions and justifying them. Some journalists tried to challenge […]