As a branch of government it is unique from the other two branches of government – the legislative. and executive branches – in that the supreme Justices are arbiters of what is allowed or prevented by the US Constitution as the ultimate source of the rule of law in America.
Law and Justice
Saleh v. Bush involves claims by an Iraqi woman, Sundus Shaker Saleh, that former President George W. Bush and other high ranking Bush-era officials broke the law when they planned and waged the Iraq War.
The case, Saleh v. Bush, involves claims by an Iraqi mother that George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Paul Wolfowitz — waged a war of aggression against Iraq in 2003,
Saudi Arabia Initiates a Court Devoted to Human Rights, NOT Satire!
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February 29, 2016
“Promote the human dignity, justice, equality and the rule of law”? Will any Saudi official involved in human rights violations not to mention State support of terrorist organizations in Syria, Iraq, be called to account to the Court?
US Government Shutdown: Democrats Blink…Again
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January 23, 2018
Public Backs Granting Legal Status to Immigrants Brought to U.S. Illegally When they were Children, Oppose Expanding the Border Wall
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January 22, 2018
Year-in-Review: Worst Abuses Against Palestinian Children in 2017
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January 22, 2018
Now that the US Government Has “Shut Down”, Here’s What Actually “Shuts Down”
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January 22, 2018
Carillion Scandal – “Small Companies to Get a Penny Back for Every Pound They Are Owed”
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January 22, 2018
Video: Trump: Babies Should Not Be Born in the Ninth Month of Pregnancy, This ‘Has to Change’
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January 22, 2018
Trump Ends Protections for El Salvador Immigrants.
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January 21, 2018
The Refugee Dilemma: Germany Plays Economic Chicken with Central Europe
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January 21, 2018
Public-Private Partnerships (P3s): Corporate Collapse Highlights Risks of Privatization
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January 21, 2018
The Egyptian-Eritrean Military Axis Might Make the Horn of Africa Crisis Explode
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January 20, 2018
Feed the Homeless in America, Get Fined or Arrested
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January 20, 2018
Alberta’s XL Bailout a Desperate Attempt to Save TransCanada’s Doomed Keystone XL
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January 19, 2018
Corporate Monopolies Will Accelerate the Globalisation of Bad Food, Poor Health and Environmental Catastrophe
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January 19, 2018
Peace Should be Integral to the Women’s March
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January 19, 2018
Deportation of Mexicans and Latinos: We Cannot Expect a President with Racism “in His DNA” to Save DACA
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January 19, 2018
The Devastating Impact of Plastic Waste: David Attenborough, Britain and “Environmental Missions”
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January 18, 2018
Trump’s “Shithole” Countries: US Bans Haiti, Belize and Samoa From Temporary Visas
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January 18, 2018
Facebook and Google Outline Unprecedented Mass Censorship at US Senate Hearing
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January 18, 2018
More War Threats and Sanctions against North Korea. Vancouver Group Diplomatic Disaster
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January 18, 2018
Slapping an Israeli Soldier More Newsworthy than Shooting a Palestinian Child in the Face
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January 18, 2018
Vancouver Summit: A Missed Opportunity for Peace with North Korea
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January 18, 2018
The Unacceptable Risks of Trump’s Nuclear Strategy
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January 18, 2018
The Iran Protest Movement and the History of US Intervention
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January 17, 2018
The Iran Deal Still Works, Trump Still Works Against It
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January 17, 2018
Drug-Induced “Iatrogenic” Disorders: The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US and Britain
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January 17, 2018
North Korea is Not Seeking War. Committed to Peace
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January 17, 2018
Ahed Tamimi Should Stay in Prison Because She Might Slap Again — Israeli Ethicist
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January 16, 2018
Carillion: An Insolvent British Conglomerate Awarded a £1.4 Billion HS2 Contract by an Inept Government That Cannot Read a Balance Sheet!
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January 16, 2018
UN Must Stop Trump and Netanyahu From Attacking Iran and Waging Nuclear War in the Middle East
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January 16, 2018
Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
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January 16, 2018
Trapped on Canada’s ‘No-fly’ List: ‘It’s a Stigmatising Experience’
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January 16, 2018
Trump’s Nuclear Posture Review: Planning for Nuclear War?
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January 16, 2018
Trump’s KKK-style Racism and Its Liberal Counterpart
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January 16, 2018
More Post-GOP Tax Cut Heist Mass Layoffs
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January 15, 2018
Winter in Ontario: Homelessness Doesn’t End in April
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January 15, 2018
Trump Vows to Renew All-out Economic War on Iran
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January 15, 2018
Trump’s Iran Statement: A View From Europe
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January 14, 2018
Israel Keeps Bombing Syria and Nobody Is Doing Anything About It
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January 13, 2018
The Strange Fate of Those Who Saw JFK Shot
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January 13, 2018
Horrific Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
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January 13, 2018
The Persecution of Julian Assange
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January 13, 2018
Dr. Hassan Diab Set to be Released from Prison: French Investigative Judges Dismiss Allegations;
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January 12, 2018
Sudan- Egypt Relations Further Strained over Territorial Dispute. The Hala’ib Triangle
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January 11, 2018
Uproar over Israeli Settler’s Killing
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January 11, 2018
President Trump’s Fundamentally Flawed Africa Policy
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January 10, 2018
Israel Bans Members of 20 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Groups from Entering Israel
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January 10, 2018
The Focus Shifts from Trump to Hillary and the Corrupt FBI
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January 09, 2018
Sixteen Year Old Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
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January 09, 2018
Trump’s Nuclear Threat against North Korea Warrants Removal from Office
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January 09, 2018
US to Deport 262,000 Salvadoran Immigrants
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January 09, 2018
Canadian Politics Today – the State of the Parties: Whither Left Electoral Politics in Toronto?
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January 09, 2018
Trump Would Do the Palestinians a Favour by Cutting Off Aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA)
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January 08, 2018
170 Social Leaders Killed in Colombia in 2017: Report
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January 08, 2018
Week in Review: Marijuana Politics, Offshore Drilling, Regime Change in Iran
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January 08, 2018
GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
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January 08, 2018
America’s “Cell Phone War” against China: HuaWei CFO Meng Wanzhou Held Hostage by Canada
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January 07, 2018
American Polynesia, Rising Seas and Relocation
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January 06, 2018
National Improved Medicare for All Making Progress. Medicare for Everone
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January 06, 2018
Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field
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January 06, 2018
Trump Administration Releases Plan to Recklessly Expand Drilling off America’s Coasts
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January 05, 2018
Father Daniel in Syria: “There Never Was a Popular Uprising in Syria”
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January 05, 2018
Yemen Is Today’s Guernica
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January 04, 2018
The Imperialist Logic of Trump’s Tax Bill. The Economic-Military Agenda
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January 03, 2018
Trump Threatens to Cut US Funding for Palestinian Refugees
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January 03, 2018
Trump to Move US Embassy in 2018
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January 03, 2018
Gangs, Race and Melbourne
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January 03, 2018
Ana Belén Montes at Year’s End. 16 Years in a US Jail. Silenced for Saying the Truth about US Foreign Policy
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January 03, 2018
Israel Seized 2,500 Acres of Palestinian Land in 2017
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January 03, 2018
Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Pipeline Face Indigenous Resistance South of Border
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January 03, 2018
Ensuring Justice in the Era of Transformation
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January 03, 2018
Trump and Netanyahu Walk in Lockstep on Iran
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January 03, 2018
President Trump’s Jerusalem Decision: The End of Hegemony?
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January 02, 2018
Israel Ruling Party Votes for Push to Annex Parts of West Bank
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January 01, 2018
Power to the People! Remember John Lennon
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January 01, 2018
Trump’s “America First” National Security Strategy (NSS) Imperils the US and the World
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January 01, 2018
What’s Killing the World’s Bees? The Role of Fungicides
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January 01, 2018
Israeli Ruling Party Votes to Annex West Bank and Seize Last Palestinian Lands
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January 01, 2018
Working Class Protest, Popular Revolt and Urban Insurrection in Argentina: The 1969 Cordobazo
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January 01, 2018
Cops Killing Kids Has Got to Stop!
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December 31, 2017
Trump Administration Repeals Obama Rule Designed to Make Fracking Safer
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December 31, 2017