Tag: Crimes

  • Julian Assange Is Released from Prison: What Does it Mean?

    Julian Assange Is Released from Prison: What Does it Mean?

    Lifesize bronze sculpture featuring (L-R) former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former US soldier Chelsea Manning convicted of violations of the Espionage Act, on May 1, 2015 at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin. (AFP Photo / Tobias Schwarz) © AFP The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will at […]

  • Victory for the Disposables: The Sentencing of the Hindujas

    In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts.  In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned.  Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features. The universal feature of ownership, at least […]

  • Letter to the Editor

    President Biden talks about American “red lines,” that protect Palestinians from an ongoing extermination. But these red lines are just another blatant lie; there is no pause in the US support for genocide. It turns out that people have their own red lines. For me, Israel’s recent threats to the chief prosecutor of the International […]

  • A Misplaced Purity: Democracies and Crimes Against International Law

    The application for arrest warrants by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim A.A. Khan in the Israel-Hamas War gives us a chance to revisit a recurring theme in the commission of crimes in international humanitarian law.  Certain states, so this logic goes, either commit no crimes, or, if they do, have good reasons […]

  • The Rages of Equivalence: The ICC Prosecutor, Israel and Hamas

    The legal world was abuzz.  The diplomatic channels of various countries raged and fizzed.  It had been rumoured that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with his cabinet colleagues, had been bracing themselves for a stinging intervention from the International Criminal Court, a body they give no credence or respect to. Then came the words […]

  • Inside one Israeli death and torture camp

    Palestinians participate in a sit-in protest at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, on 5 May. They denounced the assassination of Dr. Adnan Al-Barash in an Israeli prison.  (Ali Hamad APA images) Torture, amputations and the fetid smell of untreated wounds hang heavy in the air at the Sde Teiman facility. An army base situated […]

  • A Brutal Punishment: The Sentencing of David McBride

    Sometimes, it’s best not to leave the issue of justice to the judges.  They do what they must: consult the statutes, test the rivers of power, and hope that their ruling will not be subject to appeal.  David McBride, the man who revealed that Australia’s special forces in Afghanistan had dimmed and muddied before exhaustion, […]

  • This Day in Anarchist History: The Haymarket Affair

    Have you heard the story of why we celebrate May Day? In Chicago in 1886 police murdered two people at a general strike for an 8 hour work day. A rally for revenge on May 4thled to a riot when a bomb was thrown at the police. Several cops and protesters were killed in the […]

  • Private Security Firm Attacks the Sihlalangenkani Occupation in Umhlali

    On 7 April the notorious private security firm IPSS, with support from the SAPS, launched an attack on the Sihlalangenkani Occupation in Umhlali, on the North Coast. The occupation is affiliated to our movement. The attack was unlawful and violent. People’s doors were kicked in and people were assaulted, insulted, and threatened by men wielding […]

  • We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia Official Trailer

    Award Winning Documentary Film by Graham Peebles Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region in the country. Tens of thousands of Amhara have been killed by Oromo […]

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