لماذا لن يتحول العالم إلى سلاح فى يدي محكمة الجنايات الدولية؟
هذه هي مقطتفات من مقدمة تقرير لوكالة انباء اسوسيتت بريس بشأن جنوب السودان: لقد حث قضاة في محكمة الجنايات الدولية مجلس الامن في الامم المتحدة “باجراء اللازم” للنظر في عدم…
Why the World Won’t Play Army for the ICC
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Here is the opening paragraph of the AP’s latest report from the South Sudan beat: Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday urged the U.N. Security Council to…
The Tricks Obama Is Trying to Play with the Iran Announcement
by John Podhoretz • Commentary Magazine If you look at what happened today between the U.S. and Iran through the lens of domestic American politics, Barack…
Obama Oversells His Nondeal With Iran
by Washington Examiner Having missed the latest deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama chose Thursday to make his most persuasive case yet that the deal he has…
A Genocide the ICC Chooses to Ignore Is Still A Genocide
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny While restricting even stupid and/or counterproductive speech is not a great idea — isn’t it better to know what the ignorant are thinking and counter…
Obama’s Iran ‘Framework’*
*Details to be disclosed, and even negotiated, later. Wall Street Journal The fundamental question posed by President Obama’s Iran diplomacy has always been whether it can prevent a nuclear-armed Middle…
Misplaying America’s Hand With Iran
The president’s desperation for a foreign-policy legacy is leading toward a bad nuclear deal—and a dangerous one. By Peggy Noonan • Wall Street Journal Barack Obama, six…
The Iran Deal’s Fatal Flaw
Nothing can work without tough inspections and enforcement. And for that we must rely on … Vladimir Putin. By Charles Duelfer • Politico Magazine We don’t…
Iran Nuke Agreement Is Full of Holes
By Amir Taheri • The New York Post What we actually have in writing about the areas of agreement between Iran and the US-led P5+1 group of…
Russia Again Flight Tests New ICBM to Treaty-Violating Range
Test prompts renewed debate on violation of ’87 INF Treaty by Bill Gertz • Washington Free Beacon Russia conducted a flight test of a new intercontinental ballistic…
A Lose, Lose, Lose Proposition: The ICC & Palestine
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Over at Foreign Affairs today Indiana University Maurer School of Law professor Timothy William Waters explores in disquieting detail the ways all involved parties — and many parties that would expressly…
Congressional Testimony: Iran’s Noncompliance With Its International Atomic Energy Agency Obligations
Statement of Ms. Rebeccah L. Heinrichs Fellow, George C. Marshall Institute House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on The Middle East and North Africa Tuesday, March 24, 2015 2:00 p.m. —…
Proposed Deal with Iran Not Legal; Iranian Nukes in South America
by Peter Huessy • Gatestone Institute The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forbids any of its signatories to have nuclear weapons. Full stop. The P5+1 have been…
There’s a Not-So-Small Problem With the President’s Claim That the US is Seeing a ‘Jobs Recovery’
by Frank Camp • IJReview According to a new study by Pew Charitable Trusts, using data from 2000-2013, the middle class population in America has “shrunk”…