Our hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
After half a century studying the issue, here's lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly.
CSPG's Poster of the Week recalls that the U.S. practice of war includes herbicides targeting productive croplands.
The US Department of Defense will work on compensating the families of the victims killed in a deadly American airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The strike “mistakenly” killed 22 people.
As Britain, France, and other European states edge closer towards military alliance against ISIS, the anti-war movement is at a crossroads. ISIS is a barbarous creature, but as in so many other cases of humanitarian intervention, military action against it by the western powers is likely to increase its appeal to many resentful of Western domination. Like the war against Iraq and the bombing of Libya; this intervention is doomed to create an even worse situation.
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