by Steve Fake, John Feffer, Kevin Funk, Trevor Keck, Bridget Moix, Shaun Randol | Mar 23, 2009 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights
As part of our Empire Strategic Focus, Foreign Policy In Focus asked several experts to weigh in on whether Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is an important step forward for the international system or a step backward to great power intervention, and how should the...
by Steve Fake, John Feffer, Kevin Funk | Mar 23, 2009 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights
“The mice would be disciplined and the lions would be free,” said a Mexican delegate to the proceedings that created the UN charter in 1945. He astutely predicted the double standards that would govern the application of international law. The decades...
by John Feffer, Shaun Randol | Mar 23, 2009 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights
Because it provides a framework for the prevention of impending humanitarian disaster or for the arrest of a crisis underway, the United Nation’s doctrine on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a notable step forward for the international system. Passing R2P...
by John Feffer, Trevor Keck, Bridget Moix | Mar 23, 2009 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights
Time and again, the world has failed to prevent or halt the worst forms of human rights abuses — genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes. The Holocaust, the killing fields of Kampuchea, and the genocide in Rwanda are just a few...
by Edward S. Herman, Emily Schwartz Greco | Mar 19, 2009 | War & Peace
This is part of a strategic dialogue on Yugoslavia. See John Feffer’s opposing argument here, and their respective responses here. The successful demonization of the Serbs, making them largely responsible for the Yugoslav wars, and as unique and genocidal...