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Ratner: Shutting Down Critique of Israel on Campus
Znet Article, April, 08 2013
Michael Ratner
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Regulations against hate speech are being used to close down criticism of Israeli occupation
Ratner: "Back Off": Assange Attorney Michael Ratner Urges U.K., U.S. to Respect Asylum Decision, Int’l Law
Video, August, 19 2012
Michael Ratner
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Michael Ratner, a member of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s legal team, reacts to the breaking news that Ecuador has approved Assange’s request for political asylum
Ratner: Israel in Gaza: "A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal"
Znet Article, January, 24 2009
Michael Ratner
Ratner's ZSpace page
On the celebration of King's birth I often read or listen to the anti-war speech that he gave at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967-A Time to Break the Silence. It was a powerful statement of his opposition to the Vietnam War. He spoke of how he wa...
Ratner: Obama Should Prosecute Bush Officials Who Designed Torture Policy
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Michael Ratner
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One of Barack Obama's first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush Administration officials who gave the green light to torture.
Ratner: The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book
Book, September, 16 2008
Using primary source documents ranging from Rumsfeld’s “techniques chart” and Iraqi plaintiffs’ statements to the testimony of whistleblowers and key pieces of reportage, the book sets forth evidence of a torture program that took place throughout...
Ratner: Torture, Tribunals & the Death Penalty
Video, February, 16 2008
Michael Ratner
Ratner's ZSpace page
A look at what is at stake is the future of justice in the US.
Ratner: Che Guervara and the FBI: The U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary
Book, October, 12 2007
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Ratner: From Magna Carta to Abu Ghraib
Znet Article, March, 22 2005
Michael Ratner
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Like so many people around the world, I was politicized first in 1968. In my case I was a student at Columbia Law School, living through the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam war movement, and the revolutionary upheavals of that time. When I...
Ratner: U.S.-Held Prisoners Transferred Abroad Subjected to Torture
Znet Article, February, 22 2005
Michael Ratner
Ratner's ZSpace page
Despite repeated denials from President Bush and others in his administration that the U.S. government does not engage in torture or hand over prisoners to nations that do, a number of eyewitness accounts and press reports contradict those White H...
Ratner: CCR Call for Trial
Znet Article, December, 02 2004
Michael Ratner
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Call on the German Federal Prosecutor to Investigate Rumsfeld and Other U.S. Officials for War Crimes at Abu Ghraib ...
Ratner: Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer
Znet Article, March, 13 2003
Michael Ratner
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book is about? What is it trying to communicate? This short, highly readable book summarizes in one place many of the arguments against the war with Iraq. It is trying to arm the reader with a basis for...
Ratner: A U.N. Alternative to War: ÒUniting for PeaceÓ
Commentary, February, 09 2003
Michael Ratner
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In the last few months the Bush Administration has been unyielding in its march towards war over the objections of some allies and despite the efforts of the United Nations. It now seems inevitable that the United States, with some other countries...
Ratner: A U.N. Alternative to War: “Uniting for Peaceâ€
Commentary, February, 09 2003
Michael Ratner
Ratner's ZSpace page
In the last few months the Bush Administration has been unyielding in its march towards war over the objections of some allies and despite the efforts of the United Nations. It now seems inevitable that the United States, with some other countries...
Ratner: War Crime Not Self-Defense: the Unlawful War Against Iraq
Commentary, October, 24 2002
Michael Ratner
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As I am writing this, I do not know what action the United Nations Security Council will take with regard to the U.S. push for authority to attack Iraq. It appears unlikely that the Council will give the unambiguous authority for military action ...
