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Comment RSSIn case you missed this . . .yesterday, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals reversed District Judge John Bates’s ruling on the right of detainees held at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The opinion of the court in Fadi Maqaleh v. Robert Gates can be found …
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May 22, 2010 # 10:26 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentBreaking News: Russia, China agree to draft Security Council resoultion to impose new sanctions for Iran
May 18, 2010 # 10:05 am # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentThe New York Times is reporting:
The Obama administration announced Tuesday morning that it has struck a deal with other major powers, including Russia and China, to impose new sanctions on Iran, a sharp repudiation of the deal Tehran offered just a day before to ship its nuclear fuel out of the country.“We have reached agreement on a strong draft with …
Video: The Report on NATO’s Future by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General
May 17, 2010 # 12:51 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentObama Administration defends the relevance of international law to detention authority
May 15, 2010 # 10:08 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations, Supreme Court # No CommentIn case you missed this, in a brief submitted to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, May 13, the Obama Administration made an important statement about the applicability of the laws of war to the on-going “war on terror.” In Al-Bihani v. Obama, the D.C. Circuit upheld the decision of the District Court denying Al-Bihani’s petition for a …
MUSIC VIDEO: 8 Goals for Africa . . . The Millennium Development Goals
May 14, 2010 # 6:16 pm # Armed Conflict, Education, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No Comment8 Goals For Africa from 8 Goals For Africa on Vimeo.The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs.
From the Millennium Development Goals advocacy campaign by the UN in South Africa website:
End poverty by 2015 is the historic promise 189 world leaders …
Audio: Georgetown Professor Bruce Hoffman discussing Faisal Shahzad and what may be an emerging pattern of terrorism
May 8, 2010 # 5:48 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Intelligence # No CommentGood interview. Most troubling is his conclusion that the U.S. government is not taking adequate steps to address the challenges posed by this “new form” of terrorism.
Video: Foreign Affairs Day– Who Knew?
May 8, 2010 # 5:06 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentState Department Foreign Affairs Day Celebration
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
May 7, 2010
SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much.
Oh, my goodness, well, it is absolutely a privilege for me to join all of you today and I’m delighted to see so many of you here for Foreign Affairs Day. You are among the …
Shahzad and the Constitution: Why Professor Bainbridge is correct
May 6, 2010 # 1:12 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, International Organizations, Supreme Court # No CommentMy dear friend (for almost forty-years!), UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge has recently taken on many the unfortunate claims that the so-called Times Square Bomber, Faisal Shahzad, should not be given his Constitutional rights. Here is his most recent post, which I re-post in its entirety, lest it lose its full effect:
Why not just torture the SOB?
The WSJ editorial board …
