Have We Learned Anything From My Lai?
Mar 15, 2018 The 50th anniversary of the U.S. massacre in Vietnam offers an opportunity to take stock of American culpability for the gravest of crimes.
Obama Stands Nuremberg on Its Head
Oct 6, 2016 President Obama’s decision to spare CIA torturers from prosecution is wrong. "Good Germans who were only following orders" are not exempt from the bar of justice. Individuals must be held responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Netanyahu’s Blood Libel Against Palestinians
Oct 23, 2015 In saying a mufti put Hitler up to the Holocaust, the Israeli prime minister is attempting to paint Palestinians as congenital Jew-haters -- justifying robbing them of their remaining land, their livelihoods and their lives. Netanyahu is wrong on the history.In claiming that a mufti put Hitler up to the Holocaust, the Israeli prime minister is trying to paint Palestinians as congenital Jew-haters—justifying continued quashing of their future.
‘You Have a Mother’
Jan 19, 2015 Lola Mozes’ desperate plea to a Nazi camp guard did not save her mother. But by then her parents had taught her a lesson that has informed her life—no human being ever has the right to live at the expense of another.
America Didn’t Just Prosecute Torturers, We Executed Them
Dec 17, 2014 In 1946, the judges of Nuremberg ordered that high-ranking war criminals -- the people who had ordered that the gloves be taken off -- should be hanged until dead.From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
Oct 6, 2010 News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s.
