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Quaint and Obsolete: The Peril of Forgetting Guantánamo
Last weekend my father, Larry Greenberg, passed away at the age of 93. Several days later, I received an email from the French film director Phillippe Diaz who sent me a link to his soon-to-be-released...
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Terrorists Before the Moscow Court: The Moral Antinomy of Punishing Violence...
On March 24, the Russian authorities presented to the media four individuals accused of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which resulted in the loss of more than 130 lives. However, a not...
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The Slow Death of a Prison Profiteer: How Activism Brought Securus to the Brink
Last week, the nation’s largest prison and jail telecom corporation, Securus, effectively defaulted on more than a billion dollars of debt. After decades of preying on incarcerated people and their...
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Big Oil is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials to Kill Climate Litigation
At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has a real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for...
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‘A Massive Win for All Generations’: European Human Rights Court Rules...
Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. In a...
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Groups Bring Tortuguita’s Killing to International Human Rights Commission
Several nonprofit organizations filed a petition this month asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to rule on the police-perpetrated killing of Manuel Terán, an activist known to...
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Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down...
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that...
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SCOTUS Declines to Review First Amendment Mass Protest Rights Case
In Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review a case with significant ramifications for protest rights in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. The Court’s denial of certiorari allows the anti-First...
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The Farce of Diplomatic Assurances
The United States has now, on the face of it, produced the Diplomatic Note giving the two assurances required by the High Court to allow the extradition of Julian Assange to proceed. The assurance that...
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Abolition Is a Project of Human Liberation That Must Be Ongoing
One of the most common misconceptions about prison abolition is that it’s “unrealistic.” However, in Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché’s new book, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement...
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Under UN Charter, Iran’s Attack Was a Legal Response to Israel’s Illegal Attack
On April 1, Israel mounted an unprovoked military attack on a building that was part of the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven of Iran’s senior military advisers and five...
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Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is perhaps best known for the “Little Rock Nine,” the first Black students to walk through the school’s grand front doors. The year was 1957, three years...
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Opening Statements: Catch-and-Kill to Elect Trump
For starters, some important news: The state of New York will make daily transcripts of the trial available. They announced each day’s transcript would be available by the end of the following day. You...
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Should Harming Mother Earth Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court. On December 3, 2019, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu made an audacious proposal:...
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20 Years After Abu Ghraib, Its Victims Take Their Torturers to Court
“My life before and after [Abu Ghraib] were very different,” Salah Hasan Nusaif Al-Ejaili testified in a Virginia courtroom on Monday, April 15, the beginning of the trial in the case of Al-Shimari v....
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US Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly growing increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court is preparing to issue arrest warrants for him and other top government...
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The True Shocking Driver of Crime in America
In the midst of all of his trials, in a moment pregnant with irony, Donald Trump recently claimed that if he was reelected he would seize direct control of Washington, DC because, he said, crime there...
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How the Constitution Fails to Protect the Environment
The absence of clear and broad constitutional authority to protect the environment limits the scope of federal environmental law. Even a healthy U.S. democracy would struggle to respond effectively to...
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Trump-Appointed Judges Grant DOJ Request to Toss Landmark Youth Climate Case
Apanel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the...
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“To Be Free Is to Free Others”: Formerly Incarcerated Women Urge Decarceration
We have a long way to go to bring justice to all the individuals who were harmed by the ‘tough on crime,’ zero-tolerance legislation passed in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s,” says Amy Povah, founder and...
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Donald Trump and O.J. Simpson
It was the jokes about Trump’s rumored flatulence in the courtroom that pushed me toward despair. And don’t think it was disgust with the subject matter either. After all, I’ve lived with teenagers and...
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June 10: Appeals Court to Hear Biden Genocide Case – Palestinians Seek End to...
May 7, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Palestinian human rights organizations, Palestinians, and Palestinian-Americans continue to press their case against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and...
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An Anti-Liberal Supreme Court Poised to Subvert Justice
One could understand the Dobb’s decision. The Supreme Court was wrong to ignore precedence, reason, and evidence when it took away a woman’s constitutional right to choose. But when one recognized that...
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12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity...
The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the...
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S. Africa v. Israel on Rafah Genocide
South Africa returned to the International Court of Justice in the Hague on Thursday over the Israeli invasion of Rafah, which its attorneys alleged is a further act of genocide in Gaza. South Africa...
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On the ICC’s Announcement of Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and...
It had been widely anticipated that, to maintain any institutional respect, the International Criminal Court would have to indict some Israeli leaders, unavoidably including Prime Minister Netanyahu,...
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The American Indian Movement and Leonard Peltier
Despite now spending 47 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, Leonard Peltier continues to be denied parole by the federal government of the United States. Why has the US so obstinately...
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The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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The Turning of the Tide
In the normal run of things, if a very senior judge instructs you to give an assurance to their Court, it would probably not be wise to avoid giving the assurance, to devote a huge amount of text to...
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Biden Should Stop Attacking the International Criminal Court
“I’ve had some elected leaders speak to me and be very blunt: ‘This court [the International Criminal Court] is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin,’ is what one senior leader told me.” It’s hard...
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