Nuremberg Trials

Why the Bankers Aren't In Jail

Lyric Hughes Hale | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Adam Smith, Nuremberg Trials, Economy, Ethics, Economic Crisis, Occupy Wall Street, Banks, Banking Crisis, Carole Basri, Bernard Madoff, French Revolution, Financial Regulation, Barack Obama, Crime News
Lyric Hughes Hale

The reasons that there aren't any trophy heads after the financial crisis are plentiful: there are legal obstacles, practical obstacles, a lack of personnel, and general fuzziness about how economic crimes are defined.

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50th Anniversary Judgement at Nuremberg Screening at Academy Is Shattering!

Jay Weston | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Judgement at Nuremberg, Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust Remembrance, Judgement at Nuremberg Film, Nuremberg, Holocaust Films, Judgement at Nuremberg Anniversary Screening, Judgement at Nuremberg Movie, Los Angeles News
Jay Weston

I came away from a 50th anniversary screening of Judgment at Nuremberg on Tuesday at the Motion Picture Academy with the feeling that nothing materially has changed in the world since that trial in 1947.

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'Women, War & Peace' is a Must-See Series

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Women, Peter Bull, Oriana Zill De Granados, The Hague, Foca, Pbs, Sophia Loren, War, Jane Fonda, Klaus Barbie, Barbara Streisand, Matt Damon, Peace, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, I Came to Testify, Vittorio De Sica, Gini Reticker, Nuremberg Trials, Abigail Disney, Pamela Hogan, Marshal Tito, Claudia Rizzi, Nina Chaudry, Sarajevo, Geena Davis, Disney, Women News
Barbara Probst Solomon

This groundbreaking series must be seen.

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The Targeted Assassination of Osama Bin Laden

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Anwar Al Awlaki, Yemen, Nuremberg Trials, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Assassination, Drones, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Marjorie Cohn

Osama bin Laden and the "suspected militants" targeted in drone attacks should have been arrested and tried in U.S. courts or an international tribunal. Obama cannot serve as judge, jury and executioner.

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Defying a Superpower

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Mainstream Media, Iraq War, New York Times, Nuremberg Trials, Wikileaks, Politics News
Robert Koehler

WikiLeaks has given us another cold bath in reality: "As the vehicle approached Post 7, the Marines on post used hand and arm signals but the vehic...

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Nuremberg Laws: Nazi Papers Taken By Patton To Be Turned Over To National Archives

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Archives, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Laws, Hitler, Nazis, George Patton, Adolf Hitler, Politics News

SAN MARINO, Calif. — The Nuremberg Laws, the documents that took away Jews' rights to German citizenship and laid the groundwork for the executi...

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The Nazi Virus

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: RADIATION EXPOSURE, Medical Ethics, Tuskegee-Experiment, Nuremberg Trials, Ethics, Nazism, Science, Nuclear Testing, United-States-Guatemala-Research, World News
Robert Koehler

Even as we were prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg for their barbaric behavior, including their notorious medical experiments on death camp inmates, we were, it turns out, conducting our own medical experiments on a vulnerable and unsuspecting population.

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Unhappy Anniversary: Eight Years of Continuing Lawlessness

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Defense, George W. Bush, CIA Torture, Obama Administration, David Addington, John Yoo, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, John Yoo Torture, John Yoo Memo, Bush Torture Memos, Judge Jay Bybee, CIA UnLawful Human Experimentation, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Cia, Physicians for Human Rights, Enhanced Interrogations, Department of Justice, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

The Defense Department now obstructs justice by suppressing evidence of its own criminal actions. This sordid history indicates the perverse depths to which our nation has unfortunately fallen.

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Humanity's Courtroom: The ICC Eight Years On

Jane Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Summit Uganda, Ban Ki-Moon, International Criminal Court, Politics News
Jane Wells

With 5 ongoing investigations and a trial in process, the press and countries that don't recognize the ICC should be reminded of why the court exists and needs the support of all nations.

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KSM: Ready For His Closeup?

Michael Smerconish | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyc, Judiciary Committee, Senator Specter, Ksm, Civilian Trial, Eric Holder, Arlen Specter, KSM Trial, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, 9/11, Politics News
Michael Smerconish

Sen. Arlen Specter would like to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial be televised, stemming from a prosecutorial belief that trying him in a federal civilian court is the right decision.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torture Investigation, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Cold War, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Wwii, Criminal Justice System, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Criminal Justice, John Durham, Veterans, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite public pressure from voices across the political spectrum, the Obama administration continues to sweep torture under the rug.

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The Reckoning -- Interview with Director Pamela Yates

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Pamela Yates, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Sudan, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Darfur Sudan, International Criminal Court, Lord's Resistance Army, Video, World News
Robyn Hillman-Harrigan

The film was stark and penetrating. It discussed the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of our time, but did so in a rational, rights based justice context.

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Torturing the Rule of Law

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Rule of Law, Obama Torture Prosecutions, International Law, Criminal Justice, Discrimination, Eric Holder, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Our nation continues to undermine international law by sweeping torture under the rug, with serious implications going forward.

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We Can't Handle the Lie!

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Jay Bybee, Germany, Waterboarding, Terrorists, Nuremberg Trials, Torture, John Yoo, Guantanamo Torture, Obama, Dick Cheney Torture, Tokyo Tribunals, David Addington, Bruce Springsteen, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

If a picture tells a thousand words, the pictures now being held back by Obama, scream volumes. Their testimony demands the light of day much like the men in our containment.

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Fear and Loathing of Change

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torture Memos, Nuremberg Trials, President Obama, Torture, Timothy McVeigh, Rule of Law, Gitmo, Obama, President Bush, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

I'm not a lawyer. I can't see a law school from my house. But I know the dark, twisted, sick, fetish language in the torture memos is not what America stands for.

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Obama Stands Nuremberg on its Head

Mike Farrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Nuremberg Trials, Justice Robert Jackson, Cia, Torture, International Law, Torture Memos, Politics News
Mike Farrell

By what moral or ethical standard does a rational person determine that smashing a shackled human being's head into a wall is legal, let alone acceptable?

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Living Memory, Torture, and Trials

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Jay Bybee, Rule of Law, John Yoo, Bybee Memo, Torture, John Yoo Memo, Prosecution, World News
Terry Curtis Fox

If we who prosecuted Germans at Nuremberg refuse to hold Americans to the same standard, we are depriving Nuremberg of its precedential value.

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Salim Hamdan's Tribunal and the Strength of the Constitution

Jonathan Mahler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Salim Hamdan, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Politics News
Jonathan Mahler

Four-and-a-half years ago I profiled Hamdan's newly assigned defense lawyer, a JAG lawyer named Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift -- a gift from the magazine gods.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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Dennis Kucinich's Impeachment Resolution Could Be Helpful in a Future War Crimes Trial

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Impeachment, Klaus Barbie, Nuremberg Trials, Augusto Pinochet, Dennis Kucinich, George W. Bush, Bush Impeachment, Dennis Kucinich Impeachment, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Bush has embarked on his "Farewell Tour" of European capitals. But if he travels abroad when he is no longer president, he stands a good chance of being detained and charged with war crimes.

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