International Criminal Court (ICC)

Defeat for Netanyahu and  His Protectors in Washington

July 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

Statement from the ANSWER Coalition  in Response to White House and Media Lies published on Socialist Action, July 25, 2024 Editor’s Note: Jeff Mackler, Thousands of antiwar and social justice activists, supporters of Palestinian freedom, people of all faiths and organizations representing a broad spectrum of the US antiwar movement mobilized in Washington, D.C on July 24. We reprint below[…]

The International Criminal Court Takes on Israel and the US Congressional Mafia

June 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, International Law, Israel, Uncategorized, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy

by Medea Benjamin, published on Countercurrents, May 29, 2024 Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he grilled Secretary of State Blinken at a May 21 Congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he warned that, if the ICC gets away with issuing arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav[…]

There Will Be Repercussions: The West is Collectively Responsible for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

November 10, 2023 UNAC Editor Indigenous peoples, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Political Corruption

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Countercurrents, November 9, 2023 On October 20, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, between Egypt and besieged Gaza. Guterres was not the only international figure to travel to the Gaza border, hoping to mobilize the international community in the face of an ongoing genocide, in[…]

Putin, South Africa and the International Criminal Court

June 8, 2023 UNAC Editor International Law, Lawfare, Russia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 31, 2023 The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. On March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted and issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. They are the first and[…]

Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the International Criminal Cour

November 21, 2022 UNAC Editor International Law, Lawfare, Russia, United Nations, US Foreign Policy

by Robin Philpot, published on Covert Action Magazine, November 14, 2022 International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it. The quote above does not come from President Putin of Russia or from President Xi of China. It comes[…]

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,[…]

Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony

February 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Claire for Counterpunch by Michael Hudson, published on CounterPunch Blog, February 8, 2019 The end of America’s unchallenged global economic dominance has arrived sooner than expected, thanks to the very same Neocons who gave the world the Iraq, Syria and the dirty wars in Latin America. Just as the Vietnam War drove the United States off[…]