28 votes  What the Laws of War Allow  What the Laws of War Allow
War and International “Humanitarian” Law        Legalized
Atrocity        Let’s be clear: what killed the civilians
walking the streets of Baghdad that day in 2007 was not “war
crimes,” but war.  And that holds for so many thousands of other
Afghan and Iraqi civilians killed by drone strikesair
strikesnight raids, convoys, and nervous checkpoint guards as
well.  Regulatory Capture    This article reprinted from
TomDispatch.com http://www.tomdispatch.co...  Chase Madar is an
attorney in New York and a contributor to the London Review of
Books, Le Monde diplomatique, The American Conservative, where
he is a contributing editor, TomDispatch and CounterPunch. His
new book The Passion of Bradley Manning, about WikiLeaks'
alleged source inside the US military, is just out from OR
Books.  Trending on the Web  Comment viewing options   War
itself is the crime,  War itself is the crime, perpetrated by
pretend countries with pretend sovereignty