June 2010"The United States bears a huge responsibility to make reparations to people of Afghanistan and Pakistan after pursuing nearly 10 years of destructive warfare that has destabilized both...
March 2009Following up on my earlier post about whether the Obama Justice Department really ought to be representing John Yoo — the notorious former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer during the Bush...
The ELS along with SALDF and NLG present a screening of the film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front , nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, 2012. When: March 29...
Updated: March 20, 2012
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will participate in a debate titled, Can Drone Strikes Work on September 11th with retired U.S. Air Force Major General and current Executive Director of...
Updated: September 8, 2014
May 2009President's detention plan raises difficult issues of law and fairness.
A judge threw a "unique and extraordinary" lawsuit out of court Tuesday, leaving open the question of whether the U.S. government can legally target American citizens for death abroad...
Conflict has become big business, and nations are paying mercenaries millions to be their boots on the ground. Trouble seeing the video? Watch on YouTube here .
Updated: September 8, 2021
July 2012Two civil rights groups sued the CIA director, the defense secretary and two military commanders over two covert U.S. strikes that killed three Americans in Yemen last year.
April 11, 2019Home-renting company, Airbnb, confirmed it would not implement a planned delisting of Jewish settlements , which are considered illegal under international law, in the occupied West Bank and would “...
On Tuesday, in an extremely troubling ruling in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge John D. Bates dismissed a lawsuit contesting what is described as President Obama’s “targeted...
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