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October 10: People’s Tribunal On US Government Complicity In Gaza

October 8, 2026 Veterans for Peace, Popular Resistance. , , ,
The October 10 People's Tribunal on US Government Complicity in Gaza is a collaboration of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom US, Veterans For Peace, AFSC, and a Palestinian advisory committee. As the date approaches, organizers have been preparing key questions that the legal team and witnesses will examine during the tribunal. There are many ways you can join the tribunal: in Seattle, at a local watch event, and by livestream from your home or mobile device. The event goes from 10am to 5pm Pacific Time.

Three Years Of Genocide: How ‘Never Again’ Lost Meaning In Gaza

October 8, 2026 Dr. M. Reza Behnam, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Looking across the devastated landscape of the Gaza Strip, where surviving generations now carry the permanent physical and psychological scars of war, the ultimate indictment of our era is damning: The world watched the horror unfold in real time, possessed all the legal, political, and institutional mechanisms to stop it, and did nothing. For months, then years, the catastrophe in Gaza tested the fabric of international law, the integrity of global governance and the moral conscience of humanity. From the halls of the United Nations to the high courts of The Hague, what followed was not information failure, but a shameful surrender of political and moral will.

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates Machinery Of Authoritarianism

October 4, 2026 Henry Giroux, Counter Punch. , , ,
The legacy of Nuremberg is with us once again, less as a reminder of the power of the legal system to punish those who enabled and enacted the horrors of Nazi Germany than as a warning that the spirit of Nuremberg must be reclaimed as a moral and political imperative. That spirit matters at a time when the Supreme Court is increasingly turning the law into an instrument of reactionary concentrated power, desecrating morality, crippling the foundations of democracy, and reproducing the worst dimensions of gangster capitalism. Nuremberg made clear that judges and other officials cannot use the authority of law to cover up and legitimate actions that are morally depraved and politically destructive.

Defending A Non-Existent International Law

October 2, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
This columnist was honored to be invited to a United Nations High Level Meeting In Defence of International Law called by the Hague Group, which was held on September 25, 2026. Defending and protecting international law is surely a priority for anyone who claims to be concerned about the human rights of all people and the rights of all nations to be truly sovereign. The Hague Group was founded on January 31, 2025, when eight nations: Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa united in The Hague in the Netherlands to take “coordinated legal and diplomatic measures” against Israel’s violations of international law.

United States Defies International Law To Colonize And Control Space

September 28, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , ,
The Pentagon recently announced that the United States has deployed weapons in space, in defiance of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that declares space as a commons. The US has had plans to dominate space for decades for mineral extraction and military control of the planet through its offensive Golden Dome Project. Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space joins Clearing the FOG to explain what the US intends to do, the dangers involved, how the rest of the world is responding and what people are doing to stop US domination of space. October 3 to 10 is the Keep Space for Peace week. Find resources at Space4Peace.org.

Weapons In Space

September 22, 2026 Karl Grossman, Counter Punch. , , , ,
“U.S. says for 1st time it now has weapons in space” was the headline last week in USA Today. The subhead: “Air Force Secretary Troy Meink became the first U.S. official to publicly announce that the military has deployed weapons to space.” The article Tuesday began: “The U.S. has confirmed in a landmark revelation that the nation has deployed operational weapons in space.” It was news that swept the world. The headline in the British newspaper, The Guardian: “U.S. confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space.” The subhead: “Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit.”

42 Organizations Urge Congress To End Unlawful Boat Strikes

September 10, 2026 Defending Rights and Dissent. , , ,
To mark one year of the Trump administration’s illegal and immoral campaign of extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, Defending Rights & Dissent joined over 40 organizations in sending a letter that urged Congress to halt the strikes, defund the campaign, and investigate and hold accountable any individuals responsible. “The brazenly criminal boat strikes have gone on for a year. 225 people have been extrajudicially murdered,” said Sue Udry, Executive Director of Defending Rights & Dissent. “It’s far beyond time for Congress to take action to end the killings, and to begin to hold the Trump administration accountable for their violations of U.S. and international law.”

ICC Condemns US Sanctions As ‘Flagrant Attack’ On Judicial Independence

August 19, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on 19 August strongly denounced US punitive sanctions against ICC President Tomoko Akane and Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, calling them a “flagrant attack” on global judicial independence. “These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates pursuant to the mandate conferred by its States Parties from across regions,” the global tribunal said. The ICC's statement warned that the international legal order itself is placed at risk when judicial officers are punished for applying international law, and that coercive measures – including crippling financial sanctions – strip victims of their ability to pursue justice at a court many turn to only after every other route has closed.

What Is The Global Governance Initiative About?

July 31, 2026 Jiang Shixue, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
At the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, in Tianjin, China, on September 1, 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Governance Initiative (GGI).  On June 17, China’s State Council Information Office released a white paper titled “More Just and Equitable Global Governance: China’s Principles, Proposals and Actions”. China stands ready to work hand in hand with Latin America and the Caribbean to implement the GGI under the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits.  Let’s hope that, with the implementation of the GGI, we can create a brighter future for the world.

Israeli War Chief Says US ‘Blocking’ Plans To Strike Iranian Power Sites

July 28, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Israeli War Minister Israel Katz said in an interview with Hebrew media on 28 July that Washington is preventing Tel Aviv from bombarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's power infrastructure. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14, Katz said, “We very much want to strike Iran’s energy targets.” Katz added that the US “is not approving it at the moment because of the concern that Iran would attack neighboring countries, causing a global oil crisis.” “As far as we’re concerned, we’re prepared to set [Iran] back 40 years,” the war chief went on to say.  The comments coincide with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington. 

Ukraine’s Attack On Iranian Vessel Aims To Drag Europe Into War

July 28, 2026 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
In a strongly worded post on X on Sunday, Araghchi said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy orchestrated the attack on the Iranian commercial vessel that left one sailor dead. He added that the attack constituted a “blatant” violation of the United Nations Charter. The top Iranian diplomat noted that he raised the issue in separate phone calls with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He said he made clear during the conversations that the attack “cannot go unanswered.”

An Appeal To The Consciences Of Those Who Are Bombing Iran

July 23, 2026 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (to the tune of Beachboys song Barbara Ann)” recitation by Senator John McCain, I wrote an article entitled “An Appeal to Conscience to Those Who WOULD Bomb Iran.”  Now almost two decades and four presidential administrations later (Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump), the article is virtually the same, except that U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy pilots have now actually dropped bunker busting, ‘smart” bombs on Iran’s nuclear program facilities

United Nations Approaching AI From Wrong Side

July 20, 2026 Gabriel Accascina, Consortium News. , , ,
The Geneva Digital Week earlier this month featured the release of the United Nations’ new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligencefirst global scientific assessment of AI. The gathering capped three years in which the U.N, has produced an impressive volume of work on artificial intelligence, from the Global Digital Compact to the “Governing AI for Humanity” report; from UNESCO’s recommendation on the ethics of AI to the International Telecommunication Union’s annual summits.

The US Government As Gravedigger-In-Chief Of International Law

July 18, 2026 International Association of Democratic Lawyers. , , ,
In the last few days, the US government has escalated its campaign to destroy the rule of international law, and particularly the International Criminal Court. State-sanctioned threats, bullying and xenophobia – from US government officials and publicized in the media – have gone wild and unchecked. On 13 July 2026, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched the “Campaign to Dismantle the ICC’s Threat to American Sovereignty”. In an address, Mr. Rubio declared the ICC a “threat to American sovereignty”. He vowed that if foreign bureaucrats and judges try to deprive the US of its “birthright of independence”, “we will teach them the full meaning of American resolve.”

No, Israel Does Not Have ‘A Right To Exist’

July 15, 2026 Craig Mokhiber, Mondoweiss. , , ,
News that, in the midst of the genocide in Palestine, the German parliament was this week advancing legislation that would criminalize speech that denies that Israel has a “right to exist,” with penalties of up to five years in prison, came as a surprise to virtually no one.  This is, after all, the same Germany that perpetrated genocide first in Namibia and then in Europe, and is now actively and enthusiastically participating in the ongoing genocide in Palestine while brutally repressing all who dare speak out against it inside Germany.  Indeed, alongside Israel and the U.S., the German state today has the dubious distinction of being among those most captured by Zionist interests and most corrupted by Zionist ideology. 
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