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Znet Article Brecher: Ten Reasons Congress Must Investigate Bush Administration Crimes

Znet Article, November, 16 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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Few elections in history have provided so clear a mandate. As the New York Times put it, Democrats were “largely elected on the promise to act as a strong check on [Bush’s] administration.” [1] But the first response of the...

Znet Article Brecher: War Criminals, Beware

Znet Article, November, 05 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask him to open a criminal investigation targeting Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other key Bush Administration figures for war crimes. T...

Znet Article Brecher: The Content of our Character

Znet Article, September, 17 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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In a significant rebuff to President Bush and his security-driven strategy for Republican victory in November, the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday rejected the President's military detainee bill and passed a radically different alterna...

Znet Article Brecher: "Unite for Peace" in Lebanon?

Znet Article, July, 26 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon.

Commentary Brecher: Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War

Commentary, June, 14 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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In a remarkable protest from inside the ranks of the military, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has become the Army's first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to fight in Iraq on grounds that the war is illegal. The 28-year-old announced his ...

Znet Article Brecher: Pincer Strategy

Znet Article, June, 12 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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Pincer: A movement in which two columns are driven, one on each side of an enemy stronghold, so as to be able to converge like the jaws of pincers to isolate and crush the stronghold./ Echoing calls from the left, Senator Arlen Specter recently a...

Znet Article Brecher: Global People's Law?

Znet Article, May, 04 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions g...

Commentary Brecher: Command Responsibility?

Commentary, January, 22 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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*A jury verdict in Memphis late last year caused little stir among the general public, but it may have caught the attention of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other high officials of the Bush administration. The jury found Colonel Nicolas Carra...

Znet Article Brecher: Alito and the Limits of Presidential Power

Znet Article, January, 07 2006 Jeremy Brecher
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The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito represent the first major battle in an emerging constitutional war over the authority of the President. Revelations that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on US c...

Znet Article Brecher: Fixing the Torture Fix

Znet Article, December, 24 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus--the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. C...

Znet Article Brecher: War Crimes Made Easy

Znet Article, December, 06 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing death squads, kidnapping people and spiriting them across national borders, and plann...

Commentary Brecher: The Harriet Miers Appointment

Commentary, November, 08 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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If Hariet Miers' appointment to the Supreme Court is confirmed, she will

Znet Article Brecher: In the Name of Democracy

Znet Article, November, 07 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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[This is an edited excerpt of the Introduction to IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ AND BEYOND edited by Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith.  Metropolitan Books. www.americanempireproject.com] Brandon Hughey was a ...

Zmag Article Brecher: Affirmative Measures to Halt U.S. War Crimes

Zmag Article, November, 01 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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Morality, international law, the U.S. Constitution, and common sense provide many compelling reasons to take affirmative measures to bring the Bush administration’s war crimes to a halt.

Znet Article Brecher: Attack Syria? Invade Iran? By what Constitution?

Znet Article, October, 20 2005 Jeremy Brecher
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Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 19, Condoleezza Rice was asked whether the Bush administration was planning military action against Syria. She answered, “I don’t think the President ever takes an...

Znet Article Brecher: Amistad Revisited At Guantanamo?

Znet Article, December, 05 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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In the 1841 Amistad case - vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg's movie "Amistad" - the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human rights and the rule of law must apply to captives who had been seized in Africa and imprisoned in the United ...

Znet Article Brecher: Discussion Points: Iran Student Protest

Znet Article, July, 08 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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This June, vigilante forces attacked nonviolent Iranian student protesters, charging them on motorcycles and assaulting them with batons, chains, and knives.  Instead of protecting the students against the vigilante attacks, the Iranian gover...

Commentary Brecher: The New Global Peace Movement vs. the Bush Juggernaut

Commentary, May, 28 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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[ "Terminating the Bush Juggernaut," a longer and more comprehensive discussion paper on this subject, is posted at http://www.zmag.org/brecherjug.htm.]

Znet Article Brecher: Terminating the Bush Juggernaut

Znet Article, May, 19 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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Introduction The Bush administration is presenting itself to the world as a juggernaut - a "massive inexorable force that advances irresistibly, crushing whatever is in its path."   Bush's National Security Strategy envisions its "war a...

Znet Article Brecher: Uniting for Peace

Znet Article, April, 02 2003 Jeremy Brecher
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By The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on Iraq. But US opposition has been fierce. The world's "other superpower" -- global public opinion as expressed in the globa...

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