Notorious Canadian MP and Defender of Israel’s Human Rights Abuses Ratchets up Campaign Against Venezuela in the Name of Human Rights

Canadian MP Irwin Cotler claims to be committed to ending the humanitarian crises in Venezuela, yet Cotler has devoted much of his life to defending Israeli human rights violations, including its recent killing of unarmed protesters in Gaza.

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By MintPress News Desk
Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks to the media during a press conference in Jerusalem in 2009 where he announced a campaign for action against Iran. Dan Balilty | AP

Requesting the International Criminal Court to investigate Venezuela’s government is a significant escalation in Ottawa’s campaign of interference in the domestic affairs of another country. Supported by five like-minded South American nations, it’s the first time a member state has been brought before the ICC’s chief prosecutor by other

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UN Independent Expert: Venezuela Should Take US to the International Court of Justice

The sanctions against Venezuela have exacerbated the economic crisis caused by the collapse of oil prices leading to serious shortages of medicines and food.

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By Mariela Acuña Orta / Marian Martínez Perdomo
Alfred de Zayas, U.N. independent expert on international order, hold a news conference calling for the abolition of tax havens, Oct. 21, 2016, at U.N. headquarters. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Alfred de Zayas, a UN Independent Expert for the promotion of an international democratic and equitable order, told Venezuela’s newspaper Últimas Noticias that “it is time” for Venezuela to ask the International Criminal Court “for an investigation into the crimes against humanity committed by the United States for imposing sanctions against

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In Seeing African Corruption as Landlocked, George Clooney Misses the Boat

Any forensic examination of African corruption would reveal Western fingerprints everywhere, from the financing of a ruinous civil war and exploitation of oil and diamond reserves in Angola, to the pillaging of mineral resources in Zambia.

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By Jon Jeter
Argentina's three-masted navy training tall ship ARA Libertad, which was seized on Oct. 2 as collateral for unpaid bonds dating from Argentina's economic crisis a decade ago, sits docked at the port in Tema, outside Accra, in Ghana Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. (AP/Gabriela Barnuevo)

TEMA, GHANA (Analysis) -- The Argentine naval vessel Libertad embarked on its maiden voyage in 1961 and remains, to this day, a maritime and mechanical marvel. At 340 feet, it is one of the longest, heaviest, and yet fastest ships afloat -- holding, at one time or another, several world speed records. With its classical windjammer design and

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The ICC Plays Scripted Role in Regime Change Plot Against Venezuela

When it comes to Venezuela, we should be wary of hyperbole and exaggeration, bearing in mind that “humanitarian crisis” is a highly technical and loaded term that can be misused as a pretext for military intervention and regime change.

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By Dakotah Lilly
United Nations U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, listens as Organization of American States Secretary General Luis Almargo speaks during a U.N. meeting on human rights concerns in Venezuela, Monday Nov. 13, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (Opinion) -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, recently announced that a “preliminary investigation” would be launched into the sovereign state of Venezuela, citing alleged incidents of state violence committed during the months of street protests in 2017. These violent protests claimed the

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Oxford University’s Complicity in Myanmar’s Genocide Denial

Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of genocide by Myanmar, Oxford University is passing off the genocide as “public relations” issue.

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By Maung Zarni
Aung San Suu Kyi when she was a Burmese pro-democracy campaigner walking with Andrew Dilnot, the Principal of St Hugh's College of the Oxford University, at a reception in Oxford in June 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

When reality goes off the chart of what is thinkable, fiction is no match.  That Oxford University’s most iconic living graduate Aung San Suu Kyi may find herself at the International Criminal Court for her “complicity of silence in crimes against humanity” and even a genocide will go down in history as one such extraordinary tale.  Yet as the UN

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ICC: ‘Reasonable Basis’ to Believe UK Committed War Crimes in Iraq

The ICC alleges UK armed forces committed war crimes in Iraq including: “wilful killing/murder torture and inhuman/cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, and rape or other forms of sexual violence”.

Middle East Monitor
By Middle East Monitor
Iraqis pass by a British tank as they flee Basra, southern Iraq, as smoke looming over the city can be seen in the distance, March 29, 2003. (AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said that there is a “reasonable basis” to believe that British soldiers committed war crimes during their campaign in Iraq. In its report on the “Preliminary Examination Activities 2017”, delivered in New York to an assembly of countries, the Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, declared that her office was

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