Soon after the horror of World War II and the Nazi atrocities that came to be known as The Holocaust, 51 countries formed the United Nations to keep peace and security. Soon after that, on December 10th, 1948, the United…
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Justice Marched Slowly from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court
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The Nuremberg trials for massive crimes committed during World War II led to the opening of the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) over fifty years later1. The first trial aimed to hold to account German Nazi leaders, who started the…
Bush II Cooked Intelligence to Get Iraq War Powers
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George W. Bush made false claims citing faulty intelligence, during his campaign in 2002 to gain public and congressional support for an invasion of Iraq [1]. The faulty intelligence came through the “stovepipes” Bush’s administration set up to pump information…