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The Supreme International Crime: Joseph Biden And Rank Hypocrisy
Monday, 4 April 2022, 5:35 am | Peter Dyer
It was the truth. And it was cynical, rank hypocrisy. The message from US President Joseph Biden on the eve of the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine was: international law must be respected. In announcing sanctions against Russia for declaring independent ... More >>
‘Mushroom Cloud’ Sales Pitch Is Back
Tuesday, 11 September 2012, 1:04 pm | Peter Dyer
A decade ago, George W. Bush’s administration, citing the specter of “mushroom clouds,” launched a PR campaign to rally the American people behind an invasion of Iraq. Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is undertaking a similar ... More >>
NATO’s Law of the Jungle in Libya
Monday, 14 November 2011, 3:28 pm | Peter Dyer
Exclusive: The murder of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was widely hailed in the West as a just outcome. But it involved powerful nations making up the rules as they went along, the law of the jungle disguised as international justice, observes Peter ... More >>
A Test For U.S. Policy on Iran
Sunday, 4 September 2011, 12:23 pm | Peter Dyer
With whispers rife that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will finally decide whether to end a US ban on Iran’s largest opposition group, the Mujahedeen e Khalq (MEK) it is important to assess the consequences of a policy decision made to appease ... More >>
The Chilcot Inquiry, Aggression and the ICC
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 6:36 pm | Peter Dyer
The 2003 U.S. led invasion of Iraq was a crime--a profound and catastrophic violation of international law. The crime was aggression: the waging of unprovoked war on a sovereign state. A growing international consensus says that not only was the invasion ... More >>
Brits, Dutch Confront Illegal Iraq War
Monday, 15 February 2010, 10:32 am | Peter Dyer
On March 18, 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigned as Deputy Legal Adviser to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the British equivalent of the U.S. State Department. More >>
Greens' International Non-Aggression Bill defeated
Friday, 25 September 2009, 4:04 pm | Peter Dyer
It is still legal in New Zealand for our leaders to deploy NZ Armed Forces overseas on an illegal mission. For now. On Wednesday, 23 June, Green MP Dr Kennedy Graham’s International Non-Aggression and Lawful Use of Force Bill was defeated after its ... More >>
New Zealand Prime Minister Arrested for Aggression
Friday, 4 September 2009, 1:46 pm | Peter Dyer
12 February 2013 (Reuters) In a dramatic first test of landmark legislation, New Zealand’s Prime Minister was arrested this morning by New Zealand’s Attorney-General and charged with aggression. More >>
Interview: Dr Kennedy Graham
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 2:07 pm | Peter Dyer
Was it right to send the SAS to Afghanistan in 2001-2005? Is it right to send them back this year, as Prime Minister John Key has decided? Will it be legal? Was it ever legal? The SAS has been accused of enabling American abuse of prisoners of war ... More >>
Peter Dyer: Obama, Pakistan and the Rule of Law
Thursday, 14 May 2009, 2:36 pm | Peter Dyer
In the first hour of his administration President Barack Obama affirmed his dedication to the rule of law: “Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man -- a charter ... More >>
Peter Dyer: The History of War Crimes
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 3:14 pm | Peter Dyer
On June 13, 1899 one of the largest battles of the Philippine-American war took place on the southern outskirts of Manila. After several hours of fierce fighting at the Zapote River Bridge, 5000 poorly armed Philippine soldiers were outgunned and routed ... More >>
Government of Laws and Not of Men
Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 9:41 am | Peter Dyer
Now that the unprecedented lawlessness of the Bush administration is history, we have an equally unprecedented opportunity to reaffirm the foundation of American democracy: the rule of law. More >>
Torture & the Crime of Aggressive War
Tuesday, 6 January 2009, 9:56 am | Peter Dyer
The U.S. government’s torture of detainees in the “war on terror” can be traced directly to a Feb. 7, 2002, memo signed by President George W. Bush. More >>
Obama: Domestic Social Agenda vs. Foreign War
Monday, 8 December 2008, 11:16 am | Peter Dyer
Can we successfully fight for social and economic justice in the United States while simultaneously escalating a war in Asia? Barack Obama says we can. But forty-one years ago, Dr Martin Luther King Jr. warned against doing exactly that. More >>
Obama Can End Iraq War 'Responsibly'
Friday, 28 November 2008, 12:03 pm | Peter Dyer
One of Barack Obama's most compelling and popular campaign promises was his pledge to end the war in Iraq “responsibly.” But what does “responsibly” mean in this context? More >>
US Journalists & War-Crime Guilt
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 1:59 pm | Peter Dyer
Editor’s Note: This year, the U.S. news media cheered the opening of the $450 million Newseum in Washington, a self-congratulatory celebration of American journalism. More >>
Peter Dyer: Nuremberg and Iraq
Monday, 22 September 2008, 11:58 am | Peter Dyer
Sixty-two years ago this month, four judges met to deliberate the fate of the first men ever tried for war crimes in an international court of law. More >>
Bush, Karadzic, de Veillepin and the ICC
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 3:39 pm | Peter Dyer
Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Veillepin and George W Bush have in common? More >>
