After a brief introduction recalling the origins, the composition, the competence and the procedures of the Tribunal, the report contains two parts: Part 1: The rules of law which apply Crimes against the peace and wars of aggression War crimes Crimes against humanity Genocide Part 2. The crimes charged General comment The enunciation of the
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False alarms over BNP distract us from main threat
As mainstream politicians justify acts of mass murder in the name of bogus democracy and US control of the world’s oil supplies, Joan McAlpine (“Be wary when fascists try to hide behind racist poison” Herald 29/04/04) asks us to focus our attention on a relatively small group of isolationist anti-immigration rightwingers. We already have clear
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After Pinkville
On 15 October 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. The demonstrators heard pleas for an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and for a serious commitment to negotiations, in response to the negotiation offers from North Vietnam and UN efforts to settle the war. To be more precise, this
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Is it Time to Rethink Media Effects?
It has become increasingly common in some academic circles to write off public controversies about children”s media as moral panics. This paper sets out to challenge the implied claim made in this argument that media do not have psychological and cultural impacts on children. This position confuses public concerns with public safety and children”s well
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Prescience from January 2002: The Myth of Autism
In Leo Kanner’s now classic 1943 paper he outlined the behavior pattern, present from early in life, which he named ‘early infantile autism’. Prior to this, there were, in the literature, occasional accounts of individual children whose behavior fitted the picture Kanner later described. Kanner described only the autistic children referred to his clinic and,
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Free Speech and Hate Speech
False and ridiculous charges are no real problem. It is the unconscionable critics who reveal unwanted truths from whom society must be protected” Noam Chomsky in Deterring Democracy A False Sense of Self-Righteousness Intellectuals in the public eye remind us how we should thank our lucky stars for our democratic system with freedom of speech
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Denying the Effects of Violent Video Games
As a result of the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act the UK government has recently given the police new powers to monitor e-mails and web sites. The pretext is to fight terrorism, political extremism and Internet paedophilia as sensationalised in the mainstream media, but the real purpose is to crack down on subversion. Tabloids spread
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Trendy Lefties ⸺ The No-Logo Generation
Over the last 30 years middle-class students have embraced a series of cultural fads, some pure commercialism and others worthwhile causes, which later sold out to commercialism. Beatlemania, anti-Vietnam War protests, Punk Rock, Rock Against Racism gigs, CND demos, gay pride marches, Reggae music, politically correct speech, MTV and anti-WTO demos. Wow, so it’s now
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