My brief post for the @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social ‘Famine Voices’ series – on the Rohingya, food deprivation, and the slow, bureaucratic destruction of a group’s capacity to survive
worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/rohingy...
The list of countries threatened with U.S. military intervention is growing
· Venezuela 🇻🇪
· Iran 🇮🇷
· Cuba 🇨🇺
· Greenland 🇬🇱
· Canada 🇨🇦
…just this year!
Do they all want "Liberation"? No, I argue in
@foreignaffairs.com
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Netanyahu and the Trump administration are united in their opposition to "lawfare"—that is any attempt to hold them accountable under the law.
It's not just that Trump and his enablers are cruel and racist; cruelty and racism are what they want to project. They want the United States to be known for those things, and increasingly it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
Published in Haaretz:
Israel cannot dismiss allegations of abuse while barring the Red Cross, restricting domestic inspectors and keeping journalists away from the places where answers might be found.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
It's here.
Appalling. But to be clear, this campaign is murderous whether narcotics are present or not.
These are crimes against humanity.
(👇 excerpts from the ICC decision confirming charges against Rodrigo Duterte for murder as a crime against humanity in his so-called “war on drugs”)
On Ryan’s Q (whether these killings meet the crimes against humanity threshold), some relevant paragraphs from the ICC decision confirming charges against Rodrigo Duterte for murder as a CAH in his “war on drugs”
(NB only one of “widespread” or “systematic” is needed)
www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
Duterte’s trial at the ICC will begin on 30 November
www.icc-cpi.int/news/duterte...
www.nytimes.com
Israel Cannot Dismiss Allegations of Abuse While Barring the Red Cross, Restricting Inspectors and Keeping Journalists Away From the Places Where Answers Might Be Found
On 27 May 2026, Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court (ICC) scheduled the opening of the trial in the case of The Prosecutor v. Rodrigo Roa Duterte for 30 November 2026.This date was s...
www.icc-cpi.int
Janina Dill
Josh Halliday
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Yousuf Syed Khan
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Kaine grills Rubio on the "targeting criteria" for blowing up boats around the Caribbean, which Kaine says don't include the actual presence of narcotics on boats
With Friday strike, over 200 people killed by US military in alleged drug boat strikes.
Overwhelming consensus of experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and war crime if it were armed conflict).
200 killed also raises serious question: crime against humanity
