The UN report, “Gaza Genocide” (A/80/492) states that “the prolonged unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territory” by the state of Israe...

Human nature itself must be attuned to walking out before a speech by political leaders who intentionally have enemy civilians killed and se...

The 2015 film, The Stanford Prison Experiment , is not a documentary of the experiment on power aggrandizement that took place in 1971; acto...

Because Syria’s government had not signed onto the Rome Statute, which renders governments and their respective officials subject to the Int...

Besides international law, international organizations, or NGOs, function internationally beyond the reach of the nation-state. From the sta...

The Rome statute, a treaty that went into effect in 2002, established the International Criminal Court (ICC) in order to bring accountabilit...

Hatred warps reasoning as well as ethical judgment along the lines of a warped time-space fabric around a large mass. In other words, the sh...

During times of global peace, it is easy to suppose that increased economic interdependency between countries reduce the likelihood of war d...

To be a neutral arbitrator of a conflict between two other countries, a government cannot favor one of the two; otherwise, the veneer of neu...

Human rights are typically thought of as applying to individuals, even to groups, but do national-ethnic human rights exist? Do nations havi...

The United Nations was intended to obviate war, and failing in that mission, at least to safeguard economic trade especially if doing so sta...

It is said that history is written by the victors. The film, Nuremberg (2025), bears that out. Even though Justice Robert Jackson, the Amer...

Although the reasoning of government officials in foreign policy can be impeccable, they are susceptible to being so oriented to the intrica...

Twenty-two real-life stories fraught with suffering and a pervading sense of utter hopelessness: The film, From Ground Zero: Stories from Ga...

The film, The Reader (2008), captures a frame of mind that may be so frequently overlooked when it is observed because it is so bizarre in ...

One of the many pitfalls in the doctrine of absolute sovereignty, whereby government officials acting as government can literally get away w...

In the dark of night on June 9, 2025, Israeli military forces intercepted The Madleen, a yacht operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (F...

Each of us is so close to human nature that our perception of it may be blurry or partial. One of Freud’s contributions is the insight that ...

Official public statements by a government’s officials obviously trade on rhetoric—manipulation by wording being a part of statecraft—but wh...

“The situation for Palestinians in Gaza is beyond description, beyond atrocious and beyond inhumane.” [1] So wrote Antonio Guterres, Secret...