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Marjorie Cohn: Bully Bolton Threatens National Sec
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 1:07 pm | Marjorie Cohn
John Bolton is the wrong man for the job of US ambassador to the United Nations. His status as an avowed UN-hater, standing alone, disqualifies him. But there are other, stronger reasons to reject his appointment to that important post. More >>
Cohn: Senators Challenge Bolton on Contempt for UN
Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 10:48 am | Marjorie Cohn
John Bolton refused to come clean at his confirmation hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, playing down his contempt for the UN and for international law. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Bolton Nominated to Destroy UN
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 3:49 pm | Marjorie Cohn
John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations reminds me of what a US commander in charge of the destruction of Ben Tre city said during the Vietnam War, “We had to destroy the village to save it.” More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Whose Right to Life?
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 12:17 am | Marjorie Cohn
The nation's attention is riveted on the fate of one poor woman in a Florida hospice. Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state, with no upper brain function, for 15 years. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Getting Away with Murder
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 12:20 am | Marjorie Cohn
As we walked out of Hotel Rwanda, my teenage son asked me, "So why did we go into Iraq, but not Rwanda?" This youngster was horrified that the United States not only sat on the sidelines during the genocide that killed 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, but ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: US Finally Outlaws Child Execution
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 4:52 pm | Marjorie Cohn
Until March 1, 2005, the United States was the only nation in the world that permitted the execution of children under age 18. Only seven countries besides the U.S. have executed juvenile offenders since 1990: Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Nigeria, ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: First They Came for Lynne Stewart
Thursday, 17 February 2005, 12:01 am | Marjorie Cohn
Last Thursday, after 13 days of deliberations, prominent New York civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart was convicted of conspiracy, providing material support to terrorists, and defrauding the United States government. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Another World Is Possible
Friday, 4 February 2005, 3:33 pm | Marjorie Cohn
The Fifth Annual World Social Forum (WSF) held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from January 26-31 garnered almost no media coverage in the United States. Timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the WSF drew 155,000 activists from ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: The Gonzales Indictment
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 1:44 pm | Marjorie Cohn
Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General of the United States. He should be considered a war criminal and indicted by the Attorney General. This is a suggested indictment of Alberto Gonzales for war crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. section 1441, ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Dear Mr. Gonzales
Friday, 14 January 2005, 12:38 am | Marjorie Cohn
Dear Mr. Gonzales, You have been rewarded for your unflinching loyalty to George W. Bush with a nomination for Attorney General of the United States. As White House Counsel, you have walked in lockstep with the President More >>
Marjorie Cohn: The Emperor-In-Chief
Monday, 27 December 2004, 5:49 pm | Marjorie Cohn
Rumor has it that George W. Bush's tailor is busily stitching a royal blue cloak to go with the gold crown that will adorn the president as he takes the oath of office on January 20. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Guarding the Guardians of Peace
Friday, 17 December 2004, 2:43 pm | Marjorie Cohn
In 1945, the United Nations Conference in San Francisco gave birth to the United Nations Organization. In the wake of two world wars that claimed 55 million lives, the U.N. Charter pledged to ''save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.'' More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Chickens Come Home to Roost
Wednesday, 8 December 2004, 10:49 am | Marjorie Cohn
Twenty-four days after the September 11 attacks, I wrote in an article called Hoist on Our Own Petard: ''The hatred that fueled 19 people to blow themselves up and take thousands with them has its genesis in a history of the United States government’s ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Setting Conditions for War Crimes
Tuesday, 30 November 2004, 2:37 pm | Marjorie Cohn
Thirty-six years later, NBC war correspondent Kevin Sites, embedded with the U.S. Marines in Fallujah, wrote in his November 10 blog: ''The Marines are operating with liberal rules of engagement.'' More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Litigating The Election
Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 11:54 am | Marjorie Cohn
Without much fanfare, a number of lawyers are busy mounting court challenges to the election. Lawsuits have been filed and other actions are being taken in Ohio and Florida, the two key electoral states. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: The Quaint Mr. Gonzales
Monday, 15 November 2004, 2:34 pm | Marjorie Cohn
Most Republicans and many Democrats have hailed Bush's nomination of White House counsel Alberto Gonzales for attorney general as a brilliant choice. More >>
Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 6:07 pm | Marjorie Cohn
Associate United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson was the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Tribunal. In his report to the State Department, Justice Jackson wrote: ''No political or economic situation can justify'' the crime of aggression. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Beware Scalia-Thomas Clones
Thursday, 28 October 2004, 2:10 pm | Marjorie Cohn
After months of intense campaigning about Iraq, terror, taxes and jobs, the future of the Supreme Court has finally entered the public discourse. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is in the intensive care unit, after undergoing a tracheotomy for thyroid ... More >>
Marjorie Cohn: Bush Gets 'F' in Civil Rights
Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 12:33 am | Marjorie Cohn
George W. Bush has betrayed this promise, according to a 180-page draft report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Redefining Rights in America - The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2004. More >>
Marjorie Cohn: The Least of These
Monday, 18 October 2004, 12:04 am | Marjorie Cohn
Much of the support George W. Bush enjoys stems from people of faith who identify with his religious principles. More >>
