Genocide

International judges have postponed an appeal hearing for former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic against his convictions on charges including genocide because Mladic is due to undergo surgeryMarch 11, 2020, 5:56 PM2 min readTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- International judges on Wednesday postponed an appeal hearing for former Bosnian Serb…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International judges on Wednesday postponed an appeal hearing for former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic against his convictions on charges including genocide because Mladic is due to undergo surgery.The hearing had been scheduled for March 17-18 at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals,…

Getty This tweet from a few years ago has stuck with me: I go through life in a constant state of anxiety about how many likes my Instagram posts get, but when my grandfather was my age, he was in Europe getting shot at by Nazis. Our generation is so…

The US has become increasingly dependent on the use of unilateral economic sanctions to achieve its policy objectives against its declared targets since the start of the great recession in 2008. Presently, sanctions impact one-third of humanity in 39 countries. Economic sanctions not only cause untold death and devastation to…

Maria Puente USA TODAYPublished 5:20 PM EDT Mar 9, 2020The British royal family may not be entirely simpatico at the moment, but they presented a reasonably united front Monday as they gathered for the annual Commonwealth Day service in Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth II and her family came together for the…

March 8, 2020 Because of its relationship with Algeria, France has a 50-year history of Muslim immigration, pre-dating Angela Merkel’s 2015 welcome mat. Last month, Michel Gurfinkiel, a French intellectual who founded the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institution, participated in a radio interview with Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum. During…

The Peasant women delegates from Balmazujvaros, International Woman Suffrage Congress 1913. NYPL Digital Collection, Image ID: 1536623 Across the world women are coming together, raising their voices, and organizing to change their social, political, legal and economic status and secure a better future for women. In recognition of International Women's Day on March…

Super Tuesday winnowed the 2020 Democratic primary race to two candidates: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. So how would their presidencies actually differ? Who would staff their administrations? How would they handle Congress? How would they handle key foreign policy decisions? What are their likely points of failure? How would…

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld The writer has been a long-term adviser on strategy issues to the boards of several major multinational corporations in Europe and North America.He is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and recipient of the LIfetime Achievement Award (2012) of the Journal…

If Sanders sticks with his own precedent in the Senate, he could reshape American military engagement. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., isn’t offering vastly new prescriptions for America’s foreign policy. His administration might be more restrained, more liberal, more focused on diplomacy than military might — but most of the tools the…