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Police conduct in Dorner manhunt a flagrant violation of international norms
Authorities stand in the charred remains of a cabin set fire to by San Bernadino police, ending the manhunt of ex-cop Chris Dorner. REUTERS/Gene Blevins In the weeklong police manhunt for Christopher...
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Protests mark Bradley Manning’s 1,000th day of pre-trial imprisonment
Protests took place in dozens of cities across the world yesterday to mark the 1,000th day that accused WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning has spent in prison without a trial. Manning was...
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Obama’s election commission, the Voting Rights Act and the U.S.’s...
As the presidential voting commission that Barack Obama announced in his recent State of the Union address prepares to convene, the U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to strike down Section 5 of the...
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U.S. austerity flouts a growing international consensus
With a series of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts going into effect in the United States, Americans appear to be on the verge of their own experiment in European-style austerity, which has...
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Opposition grows against drones as U.S. attempts to dictate global rules
A recent drone protest in Pakistan With various countries developing drone technology and threatening to break the U.S. monopoly on the ability drop bombs by remote control, the Obama administration is...
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A decade later, still no justice for Iraq War aggressors
Ten years ago today, the United States and a handful of allies launched a military assault on the sovereign nation of Iraq. Estimates of the war’s costs vary, but commonly cited figures put the...
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The world’s worst weapons and the obligation to disarm
Obama as Dr. Strangelove The United States continues to demonstrate double, triple and quadruple standards in its policies toward nuclear proliferation and disarmament. On the one hand, it flouts its...
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Washington’s culture of corruption and corporate impunity
Washington’s revolving door corruption and culture of corporate impunity reached new lows last week, raising serious doubts about the United States’ commitment to upholding its international...
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As world welcomes historic Arms Trade Treaty, U.S. Senators vow to block it
Amnesty International demonstrators rally for the Arms Trade Treaty at the White House on March 22, 2013. (AFP/Jim Watson) Immediately following the historic adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty by the UN...
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Growing concern over human rights crisis as Guantanamo hunger strike marks...
The United States is coming under intense international criticism for its increasingly troubling record on torture and impunity, indefinite detention and the ongoing travesty of justice known as...
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Mounting alarm over media crackdown in the United States
As the U.S. government’s crackdown on the press intensifies, international organizations and media freedom advocates are expressing growing alarm over what is seen as a systematic attempt to muzzle...
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Obama’s commission launched with earlier recommendations on U.S. election...
More than six months since Election Night 2012 when President Obama stated that “we have to fix that” in a reference to long lines at polling places, the Presidential Commission on Election...
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Obama’s speech: Sidestepping key questions on Gitmo, torture and drones
In a wide-ranging speech Thursday on U.S. counter-terrorism policies, President Obama made a number of encouraging remarks regarding respect for the rule of law and renewed promises to ensure that the...
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Monsanto feels the heat on global day of protest
Hundreds of cities across the world held marches Saturday in a first-of-its-kind global demonstration against one of the world’s most powerful (and hated) corporations, Monsanto. According to...
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International criticism continues of war on terror despite Obama’s assurances
Over the past week, international bodies such as the European Parliament and the UN Human Rights Committee have raised grave concerns over continuing U.S. lawlessness in its prosecution of the war on...
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With Bradley Manning’s ‘show trial’ set to begin, grassroots campaigns heat up
With Bradley Manning’s court martial trial finally set to begin next week — more than three years after his initial arrest on suspicion of being the source of the biggest leak of classified documents...
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Abandoned by international community, Bradley Manning begins fight for his life
Just over three years since being arrested on suspicion of being the source of a massive leak of classified documents – many providing evidence of U.S. war crimes and other serious crimes of state –...
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NSA dragnet surveillance a violation of international norms
As revealed in the Guardian, the National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order issued in April. Requiring Verizon...
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International outcry over NSA mass surveillance calls U.S. credibility into...
The world is reacting with alarm to revelations that the United States has been committing wholesale violations of privacy rights on a global scale, particularly through its PRISM initiative which was...
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New laws bring U.S. closer to respecting international norms on sentencing...
A recent spate of laws being adopted across the United States, including in Delaware, Wyoming and Indiana, are bringing the United States closer to respecting international norms in the treatment of...
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