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A Nobel peace prize nominee has accused the director-general of the World Health Organisation of allegedly aiding genocide in Ethiopia. American economist David Steinman accused WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 55, of being a 'crucial decision maker' who directed Ethiopia's security forces actions from 2013 to 2015. He accused Tedros of being one of three officials who were in charge of the security services over that period, during which the 'killing' and 'torturing' of Ethiopians took place. Tedros was the country's foreign minister until 2016 when his Tigray People's Liberation Front party was in power. Raised in Tigray, he also...

The International Criminal Court is an illegitimate globalist institution being used by enemies of the United States and Israel as a political lawfare weapon U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Friday new U.S. visa restrictions on those individuals directly responsible for any International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of U.S. personnel in connection with U.S. and allied military and intelligence activities in Afghanistan. The ICC prosecutor had previously requested approval from the ICC’s judges to launch a formal investigation into what the prosecutor called the “situation in Afghanistan.” That request is still pending. Secretary Pompeo warned all those working...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a directive on Wednesday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague. The ICC is meant to be the world's first permanent court and works to prosecute leaders and countries for war crimes, genocide and "crimes against humanity." In 2000, Russia signed the Rome treaty establishing the ICC, but never ratified it. The ICC was established in 1998, and currently has over 100 member states. Like Russia, the US also signed the treaty but declared in 2002 that they had "no intention" of ratifying it. Last Tuesday, the UN General Assembly's Human Rights...

Jan Brewer is asking a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the federal lawsuit. | AP Photo Close By SCOTT WONG | 10/6/10 9:57 AM EDT Updated: 10/6/10 7:21 PM EDT In a new twist in the fight over Arizona’s immigration law, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday asked a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to overturn the law. The move comes in response to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued Monday, allowing nearly a dozen Latin American countries — Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador,...

Some of he facts for this article, and some of the legal conclusions, come from an article on 13 November, 2009, on Frontpage,com by David Horowitz, entitled “The Worst Decision by a US President in History.” The title alone makes clear that Mr. Horowitz sharply opposes President Obama’s decision to have alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad and his confederates tried in federal court in New York City rather than before a military tribunal. The ACLU, and its ally, the pro-Castro, Center for Constitutional Rights, have praised Obama’s decision as “presenting American justice to the world.” Since the ACLU is...

Dan - When history looks back at the last eight years, it will not be kind to George Bush and Dick Cheney. We already know a lot - war profiteering and no-bid contracts, torture and secret prisons, and of course the lies that got us into this war in the first place. They turned the Justice Department, the nation's top law enforcement authority, into a political tool. They wrote secret legal memos in an attempt to override the Constitution. The list goes on and on. We know what's happened, but there is so much that remains hidden. We must find...

Abdullah Ocalan isn't exactly a household name in America. But he's more notorious even than Osama bin Laden in Turkey, where his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) waged a terrorist and guerrilla war that cost an estimated 37,000 lives. Last week, incredibly, the European Court of Human Rights ordered that he be given a new trial. For Americans, this verdict should serve as yet another warning about the dangers of joining permanent multilateral legal institutions such as the International Criminal Court. ICC backers claim that the court can be trusted to exercise its authority with prudence and discretion. But the Ocalan...

THE HAGUE (AFP) - The world's first permanent war crimes court started a hearing focused on an investigation by its prosecutors into crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (news - web sites) (DRC). It is the first time that judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which began work almost three years ago, are formally studying a specific war crimes investigation. "The hearing was behind closed doors. We will make no comment on the proceedings," spokesmen for the prosecutor and the court Yves Sorokobi and Ernest Sagaga said. The move comes amid continuing instability in the eastern DRC,...

Just one day after the United Nations signed a cooperation agreement with the new International Criminal Court, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called for implementation of his long-touted "New World Order". The New World Order, Gorbachev said, will be based on strong adherence to international law and will lean heavily on the UN Though it's today-the-pond-tomorrow-the-world in spirit, Gorbachev said his New World Order would not seek to impose the view of one country or a group of countries on others. . . . . To read the entire Canada Free Press article, visit: Gorbachev revs up implementation of New...

Something to Yak About - Kerry's Support For The ICC John Kerry has been attacking the president over his remarks last week about the senator's support for the International Criminal Court. But the criticism seems to be at odds with the facts. The Boston Globe Tuesday reports Kerry told the left-wing group Peace Action, "I support US participation in the International Criminal Court," further telling The Globe in a written statement, "I will not continue the obsessive and self-defeating campaign President Bush has waged against the ICC and the close American allies that support it." Kerry's statement to The Globe...

Last week, in the first presidential debate, candidate John Kerry did what most expected him to do. He presented a polished argument. He seemed confident and knowledgeable. For sure, on style alone, John Kerry has the natural political talent to score points. In the debate, Kerry skillfully wove as many words as possible into every one of his 90-second responses. Do not for an instant, however, permit Kerry’s natural political skill – further refined over a lifetime in Washington D.C. – to fool you. It is easy to allow Kerry’s slick rhetoric to conceal his radical ideas. When it comes...

American peacekeepers could soon face prosecution for war crimes by the International Criminal Court, now that the U.S. is dropping a United Nations resolution looking for continued exemption. U.S. deputy ambassador James Cunningham made the announcement today in New York, after unsuccessfully seeking a compromise that would limit the exemption to one final year. "The United States has decided not to proceed further with consideration and action on the draft at this time in order to avoid a prolonged and divisive debate," said Cunningham, according to Reuters. "We are dropping action on this resolution." The Bush administration has continually argued...

U.S. Offers UN Compromise on Immunity for Its Troops By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, hoping to avert a defeat, floated a compromise proposal on Tuesday to seek just one more renewal of a U.N. resolution exempting American soldiers from international prosecution, But it was uncertain whether the proposed change in the resolution on the International Criminal Court would be enough to win U.N. Security Council approval due to international fury over prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib detention center. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan last week urged council members to oppose the resolution, saying it would...

Supreme Court or World Court?On October 28, the Atlanta-based Southern Center for International Studies presented Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor its World Justice Award. During her acceptance speech, O’Connor expressed concern that the High Court has seldom considered foreign laws when reaching important decisions affecting U.S. jurisprudence. She was gratified to note, however, that a few recent decisions may be signaling a change, as the court increasingly acknowledges legal standards set by the "global community."O’Connor approvingly noted that two important Supreme Court decisions in which she concurred were based in part on foreign laws. A 2002 case, Atkins v....

   http://writ.findlaw.com/commentary/20030908_cohn.html ----How the Bush Administration's Opposition to the International Criminal Court Has Put Peacekeepers and Others in DangerBy MARJORIE COHN ---- Monday, Sep. 08, 2003 Even after the recent, tragic attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, the U.S. was not willing to unreservedly support a U.N. Security Council resolution to help protect U.N. and other humanitarian workers. Instead, the U.S. greenlighted the resolution only when its reference to the International Criminal Court (ICC) was deleted. It's not the first time that the U.S. has put its pigheaded opposition to the ICC before other important goals: Last year,...

Amnesty International?s executive director says Washington?s war against Al Qaeda has dealt a severe blow to human rights worldwide By Brian Braiker NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE   May 29 -- The "war on terror" ensured that 2002 was a good year for political repression, arbitrary detentions, draconian immigration measures and torture, according to Amnesty International's annual report, released this week. THE LONDON-BASED international human-rights watchdog made its fiercest assault yet on the policies pursued by the United States and Britain since the attacks of September 11, 2001. According to the report, the U.S.-led antiterror campaign has done more to harm human...

Journalist battles war crimes summons Randal, a journalist, refuses to be called as a witness Journalists' lives could be put in danger if they are forced to give evidence in war crimes trials, a lawyer arguing against the summoning of an American reporter has told the Hague tribunal. War correspondents who take the witness stand risk being perceived by potential sources as an investigative arm of a judicial system Geoffrey Robertson Defence attorney Geoffrey Robertson was speaking at the start of an appeal by former Washington Post reporter Jonathan Randal, who has been subpoenaed to give evidence at the war...

Letter: U.S. Withdrawal from ICCNewsMax.comMonday May 6, 2002 UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY WASHINGTON Dear Mr. Secretary-General: This is to inform you, in connection with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted on July 17, 1998, that the United States does not intend to become a party to the treaty. Accordingly, the United States has no legal obligations arising from its signature on December 31, 2000. The United States requests that its intention not to become a party, as expressed in this letter, be reflected in the depositary's status lists relating to...

The International Criminal Court Vicki Blackmore How would you like to be kidnapped by your enemies and asked to stand trial for actions against them? You could be held without bail, without even knowing the reason you were there indefinitely. None of your family or friends would even know where you were. Then finally you would be brought before a group of them and they would “judge” you for crimes committed against them. These people would be criminals, mass murderers, terrorists, slave traders, rapists; and your only crime was to defend yourself and your family against them. This is exactly...

The original on the ICC is attached below. See my other posts on this! Also, check out replies concerning how the Pope and the Catholic Church would probably come under review. Don't expect to hear too much about this too soon in the mass media. The ICC is about ACCUMULATING POWER with an eye toward the struggles and conflicts THEY plan to impose on us in 2010-2025.