The Genocide Convention imposes obligations on states and individuals not just to punish the crime of genocide but to actively prevent it. Two years into the war in Gaza and over 20 months since the International Court...
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Western Sahara: betrayal of a people, a principle and of international law
Nov 06, 2025
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There’s a major development on the Western Sahara and it’s very alarming. A native population who have suffered repressive occupation for decades, trusting the UN’s promise of self-determination, is about to be abandoned.
If you don’t know the history, Morocco invaded the territory in 1975 when Sp...
The Happy Creator of Pure Propaganda: remember the '45 minute' claim? That was me.
Oct 30, 2025
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We live, it is alleged, in a ‘post-truth’ age. In fact, we have always lived in a ‘post-truth’ age (particularly if you are a post-structuralist, as I discussed last week). And the truth is that governments are pretty much always uttering ‘post-truth’ - facts that suit their narrative, selective inf...
Is the British government complicit in genocide?
Oct 21, 2025
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This article was recently published on the Rethinking Security website.
