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  • Massachusetts: Highest Court Says Charter School Must Comply With State Public-Records Law

    Massachusetts: Highest Court Says Charter School Must Comply With State Public-Records Law

    Charter schools are privatized education arrangements that continually insist on being called “public” while routinely avoiding many public laws, standards, and requirements. Charter school operators have always wanted to be both public and private for self-serving reasons—public so that they can seize public funds and private so that they can remain unaccountable. Dr. Michael Mindzak […]

  • A State Betrayed

    The 27th Amendment rewrites Pakistan’s rules and hands its courts and army to the powerful few. According to Santiago Canton, the ICJ Secretary General, the 27th amendment introduces changes that raise serious concern. He warns that these shifts could weaken the courts’ role in checking executive power and compromise the basic rights of people in […]

  • Complicity in Gaza: Holding US Foreign Policy Legally Accountable

    On March 15, the next stage of an intriguing legal process seeking to hold the Biden administration accountable for its failure to prevent, as well as being complicit in, alleged acts of genocide taking place in Gaza, was taken.  It all stems from a lawsuit filed last November in the US District Court for the […]

  • When Courts Intervene: Halting the Transfer of F-35 Parts to Israel

    Legal challenges regarding the Israel-Gaza War are starting to bulk lawyers’ briefs and courtroom proceedings.  South Africa got matters underway with its December application before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in its campaign against the Palestinians.  While determining whether genocide has taken place, the ICJ issued an interim order warning Israel […]

  • The Reasonings by the 2 Dissenting Judges on the ICJ’s Genocide Case by South Africa against Israel

    The Reasonings by the 2 Dissenting Judges on the ICJ’s Genocide Case by South Africa against Israel

    There were 17 judges ruling on this case, including one from South Africa and one from Israel. Both of those two judges were not regular members of the Court but were included only because this ‘International Court of Justice’ was treating this matter as-if not “justice” (in criminal law — which this case was supposed […]

  • Holstering a Career: Wayne LaPierre Resigns from the NRA Executive

    Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  The now departed chief executive of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) should know.  Wayne LaPierre’s time had come to resemble a dictatorship in a hurry, pinching the silver and stomping on the dissenters on its way out.  Allegations were already being made at the NRA’s annual […]

  • U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia

    U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia

    On 10 March, Canada’s National Post headlined “Regime change in Moscow ‘definitely’ the goal, Joly says,” and reported that “Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly raises the possibility of regime change in Moscow. … ‘The goal is definitely to do that, is to weaken Russia’s ability to launch very difficult attacks against Ukraine. We want also […]

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