Tag Archives: international law
Exceptional arrogance
This week Obama held a speech on the situation in Syria. Among other things, he said this: “My fellow Americans. For nearly seven decades, the United States has been the anchor of global security.” Not an anchor, but the anchor. Just to … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged exceptionalism, international law, Obama, Syria, the UN, US
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…and no charges were ever brought against him
When I was an intern on a project dealing with rendition and secret detention a few months ago, I read those words several times a day. The only sentence that might challenge it in terms of frequency, is “…and his … Continue reading
Posted in Extraordinary rendition, Politics
Tagged black sites, Bush, Canada, CIA, detainees, GTMO, international law, legal rights, Maher Arar, Obama, Rendition, secret detention, secret prisons, Syria, torture, USA
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In a nutshell 