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Day 14. Just about every media outlet in the country is reporting that the bloodshed in Gaza hit a horrific high this weekend, with the Associated Press, for example, reporting that at least 508 Palestin...
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Published by The University Press of Kentucky (2014)
Reviewed by Charles Blanchard
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Editor's Note: As Iraq collapses into yet another bloody civil war and chaos sweeps across the Middle East, Americans are once again hearing calls for rebuilding the institutions and societies of the Mid...
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Russia slaps a travel ban on Rep. Jim Moran, Judge Gladys Kessler, and a bunch of people connected to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. That'll show 'em. From the Associated Press:
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has pla...
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After Edward Snowden leaked, the UK Government dripped.
Or, to put it less metaphorically, a major controversy played out in the UK over the past week around the speed, tone and scope of the coalition G...
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It was a big week at the D.C. Circuit, which handed down the en banc decision in the Al Bahlul military commission case. It's a complicated decision: a mess of a procedural history, lots of separate opin...
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The big news this week: Lawfare recently received 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, and Ben reached out to you, our loyal readers and followers, for financial contributions to help make Lawfare better. Just d...
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Recent events again have raised the issue of accountability for alleged human rights violations by Blackwater, the most notorious of the private contractors deployed by the United States in the Iraq war....
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Yesterday, we received a notification from the IRS that our 501(c)(3) tax exempt status has now been approved---making donations to Lawfare tax deductible. Today, we met with representatives of a tech co...
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Published by Knopf (2014)
Reviewed by Charlie Dunlap
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Yesterday, Cody and I flagged the news that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777, en route to Kuala Lumpur, had crashed in Ukraine near the border with Russia.
U.S. officials confirmed yesterday that the pla...
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Tuesday’s opinion in Ralls v. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States came as quite a surprise. For the first time, a federal court considered the relationship between due process, on the on...
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Much will, no doubt, be written about the destruction of Malaysian Flight 17 today over Ukraine. Early speculation is that the plane may have been destroyed by Ukrainian separatists, who deny the charge...
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If you've been focused the last few weeks on ISIS, on Gaza, on the Iran deal, or on the Afghan elections, you might have missed the precipitous decline of U.S.-German relations that is taking place befor...
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A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 280 passengers and 15 crew members, crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border. Reuters notes that all 295 people aboard di...
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Marty and Steve’s post on al Bahlul (and Steve’s post here) is right that the D.C.
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This morning, Marty Lederman and I have posted a detailed analysis of Monday’s en banc D.C. Circuit decision in al Bahlul—and what it portends for the future of military commissions, especially with resp...
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Yesterday, after Hamas refused to sign a cease-fire agreement with Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry declared, “I cannot condemn strongly enough the actions of Hamas.” The Wall Street Journal notes t...
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In Al-Bahlul, the en banc D.C. Circuit resolved some quite important issues regarding military commissions, but declined to address other no less important ones. Among other things, the full court opted ...
