9/11


FREE AND UNITED WE STAND

Popular posts from this blog

Netherlands and Canada's ICJ Torture Case Against Syria: A New Era of International Indictment of Sovereign Governments' National Crimes

Image
Netherlands' torture and other ill-treatment case against Syria at the International Court of Justice opens a new chapter in the international order and practice. Although our previous experience with the international order and the international institutions, especially in the Syrian crisis, lets almost no room for any expectations for this case to end torture in Syria or to achieve any difference in the course of action of the Syrian regime, it definitely can lay the foundation for this end by the international documentation, indictment and recognition of these domestic crimes.   In general, this unprecedented ICJ case has a particular international importance as It has a real chance to prompt a beginning of some international system development in terms of the international responsibility and role concerning ill-governance, which is generally fenced by the norm of sovereignty, especially in terms of systematic practice of torture and other kindes of ill-treatment by ...
Read more

Middle East's Geopolitical Future between Beneficial West and Strategic East

Image
At the same time as the U.S. various sources are revealing and hailing the advanced stage of the undergoing negotiations with Saudi Arabia for a security agreement, the Saudis are in China to discuss the strategic defense partnership between Riyadh and Beijing and to discuss " ways to strengthen military and defense cooperation". Some Yemeni Houthi sources informed the Lebanese pro-Iranian Al-Akhbar newspaper that Saudis are exploring the possibility of requesting China’s mediation with the Houthis. Meanwhile, many U.S. media outlets and analysts are still insisting that all Saudi policies, moves and agreements with China are directed at the U.S. as maneuvers or teasing to promote the relationship with the U.S or to attain its assistance in particular fields despite a very significant series of developments in terms of KSA-China relationship and the Chinese changing role in the Middle East.  In this regard, I am wondering about the threshold of which the U.S gover...
Read more

The French Arrest Warrants for Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria: A Precedent with Key Questions

Image
In an unprecedented development, the French judiciary has issued an international arrest warrants for the chemical weapons attacks performed by the Syrian government (regime) against civilians during the Syria war. The warrants target three top Syrian officials including the Syrian president.  Here is all you need to know about the first international (non-ICC) arrest warrant of a sitting head of another state for a grave crime against humanity and/or war crime by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) .  This international precedent is stating that no sovereign impunity for grave crimes against humanity, as clearly indicated by the issuing judiciary, prompts two questions. First, would it be a followed precedent marking a change in the int practice? And the second question, how the following practice will define the initiating grave crimes?  One explanatory enquiry should follow here is about whether the western powers that practically i...
Read more