The next episode of my live podcast is this upcoming Tuesday, August 25, at 10:00am EDT with former Israeli diplomat Alon Liel and former Palestinian minister and peace negotiator Ziad Abu Zayyad. Alon Liel is the former director general of the Foreign Ministry of Israel and was also Israel`s ambassador to South Africa. Ziad Abu Zayyad is a former Palestinian Authority Minister and Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, a former negotiator, and the co-editor of the Palestine Israel Journal.
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Italy is facing a human rights challenge before the European Court of Human Rights after releasing a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The case raises profound questions about accountability, victims` rights, and whether political and security interests can override international legal obligations.
Today’s podcast guest is Hon. Lise Pearlman (ret.), a former California trial lawyer and first Presiding Judge of the California State Bar Court. Following her retirement from the bench, Judge Pearlman has become a best-selling author and nationally recognized speaker on famous 20th century trials whose books have won multiple awards in the categories of law, U.S. History, and multicultural nonfiction.
In this episode, we discuss her book With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials of the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today’s America and a few of the significant cases detailed within, and delve into the injustices surrounding each trial and how they have impacted the American legal system.
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Ten years after the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2286 to protect healthcare in war zones, hospitals, clinics, doctors, and aid workers remain under attack. Most alarming, both the United Nations and human rights organizations report that state actors are responsible for many of these violations. Protecting medical workers and patients must become a global priority.
It is self-evident that climate change, war, and widening economic and social disparities are deepening poverty around the world. All of this unfolds while most countries spend ever more on armaments than on social programs or feeding the poor. That is the greatest travesty of our time. Hard to imagine how the so-called civilized nations fail to reckon with the fact that we are digging our own grave. Security and prosperity do not depend on the size of armies and arsenals. They depend on strong, cohesive societies built on a measure of equality — communities given the means to sustain themselves and succeed. That is where real security comes from. Yet we still invest excessively in armaments instead of people. We wage wars for more power, more land, or mere subjugation of other people, but not for mitigating the plight of the poor and the oppressed.
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Due to the US unabated military, economic, and political support, and the lack of any pressure on Israel, the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians has not merely stagnated—it has become increasingly intractable. Following the catastrophic Gaza war, in which tens 73,000 Palestinian civilians, including 20, 0000 were killed, famine spread, and the enclave was largely destroyed, neither the Biden nor the Trump administration made any genuine attempt to halt the bloodshed, and became de facto complicit in the mounting of war crimes and crimes against humanity that were being committed. The US’ blind support has only eroded Israel's moral standing, earning it the most intense international condemnation, from which it may recover for decades, making the prospect of any solution to the conflict with the Palestinians ever more remote.
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No ally has been insulted more casually. Trump has repeatedly taunted Canada as the "fifty-first state," posting the jibe hours before Ottawa's trade minister arrived for talks, and in July he ordered 50% tariffs on a broad range of Canadian goods, with last-minute talks in August scrambling to stop them. Earlier he threatened 100% tariffs if Ottawa concluded a trade deal with China. Consider what this means: the country that fought beside us in Kandahar, that took in our stranded planes on 9/11, is now treated as a delinquent tenant. Canadians boycott American goods and rewrite their trade strategy around our unreliability. Sovereignty is not a bargaining chip, and annexation talk aimed at a democracy is not humor. Washington has taught its closest neighbor that friendship with America is a liability to be hedged.
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FDT!!!😡🖕🏼😡🖕🏼
The entire Republican Party under Trump has taken a belligerent attitude toward the United States public. It’s time to give them a rest until they show evidence on how best to serve, rather than blaming someone else for their failure.
Fuck Trump
I watch America, once the continent of conscience, sink into the gray fog of decree and fear, a de facto kingdom draped in a flag. Authoritarianism blooms where solidarity dies; when the heart no longer binds us, power arrives with batons and whispered laws, imposed like chains mistaken for gains. The choice is ours. This is how empires die— not with one grand collapse, but under the weight of debts, guns, and a future pawned for power. We have faced darker hours and prevailed not by chance, but by courage—but only if we summon a counterrevolution of conscience. Every peaceful instrument of resistance must now be brought to bear—march, strike, vote, speak, refuse. When Americans, across every faith, color, creed, and party, rose in shared purpose—like a gathering storm of conscience that no demagogue could defy.
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