International Law

The United States Has Produced Very Few Anti-Imperialists; Noam Chomsky is Not One of Them

November 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperialism, International Law, Middle East Wars, Political Analysis, Syria

by Stephen Gowans, published on Stephen Gowan’s Blog, November 3, 2019 Imperialism has penetrated the fabric of our culture, and infected our imagination, more deeply than we usually think.—Martin Green. [1] [Americans] have produced very, very few anti-imperialists. Our idiom has been empire.—William Appleman Williams. [2] In a recent Intercept interview with the beautiful soul Mehdi Hassan, Noam Chomsky resumed[…]

The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

August 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, International Law

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, August 11, 2019 “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.“ That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies[…]

US Scrapping of INF Treaty Heightens Threat of Nuclear War

August 7, 2019 UNAC Editor International Law, Nuclear Agendas

By Bill Van Auken, published on World Socialist Website, August 3, 2019 Washington formally scrapped the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty Friday, bringing the world a major step closer to nuclear war. The treaty, signed over 30 years ago by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, banned a whole class of weapons that had placed the world[…]

The Danger of Armed Drones: Targeted Killings

June 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Drone Warfare, International Law

A man walks past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa November 13, 2014. Yemeni authorities have paid out tens of thousands of dollars to victims of drone strikes using U.S.-supplied funds, a source close to Yemen’s presidency said, echoing accounts by legal sources and a family that lost two members in[…]

U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Illegal under UN and OAS Charters, and US Laws

June 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, International Law, Venezuela

Add Newby Editorial Staff, Countercurrents, June 7, 2019 Sanctions imperialism has imposed on Venezuela are illegal. The UN and Organization of American States (OAS) charters, and U.S. laws find this illegal action. Media reports said: The unilateral economic sanctions is an explicit violation of international law protected under the UN, OAS charters, human rights stipulations, and even U.S. law. Despite[…]

Iran’s security plans for Persian Gulf: Non-aggression pact

June 4, 2019 UNAC Editor International Law, Iran, Regional Solutions

by Javid Heirannia, Published on Tehran Times, May 27, 2019 Note: Once and a while we should see the best side of regional initiatives. Yes, they have peace-building ideas of their own. . . . . but how can they implement them the pink elephant of U.S. intervention in the middle of the room. After a meeting with his Iraqi[…]

Updates from the Venezuelan Embassy Protectors

May 11, 2019 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Featured, International Law, Venezuela

Photo from a Tweet by Answer Coalition at the DC Venezuelan Embassy earlier today: “They may have cut off our electricity, but they can never cut off our power.” ~ CODEPINK and Popular Resistance #Love4EPC #embassyprotectioncollective Posted by by Judith Bello, member of UNAC AC, May 11, 2019 For context, the right wing Venezuelan protestors remain outside the embassy[…]

How the ICC Intends to Violate a UN Security Council Decision and Try Bashar al-Assad

March 15, 2019 UNAC Editor International Law, Middle East Wars, Syria

Everyone believed it to be impossible for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try the Syrians, since China and Russia exercised their vetos against a Western draft resolution to do so. But no! A piece of legal sleight of hand may make it possible to dodge the decision of the Security Council. The Court hopes to incriminate President Bachar el-Assad,[…]

NICA-Act-I: Nicaragua Reminds the US of its Debts

January 16, 2019 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Latin America, Nicaragua

by Chuck Kaufman, from NicaNotes, August 22, 2017 Passage by the US House Foreign Affairs Committee of the ridiculous NICA Act brought a rebuff by the Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega and a reminder of the US’s own unpaid debt to Nicaragua. The NICA Act (Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2017), if it became law, would require US representatives in multilateral lending institutions[…]

Green Party Urges International Criminal Court To Prosecute Israel For Crimes Against Palestinians

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor International Law, Israel-Palestine, Resistance

Above: Delegation at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands on November 19, 2018. From left to right Margaret Flowers, Green Party co-chair, member of the Green Party Peace Action Committee and Green Party of Maryland, Miko Peled, Green Party US member, Dirk Adriaensens of the Brussells Tribunal, Diane Moxley of Green Party International Committee and Green Party of New Jersey, Stephen[…]