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Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, dean of the People's Academy of International Law, and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is a member of the national advisory boards of Veterans For Peace and Assange Defense, and is a member of the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the U.S. representative to the continental advisory council of the Association of American Jurists. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.
A new whistleblower has joined the ranks of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou and other courageous individuals. The unnamed person, who…
There is Probable Cause the US Committed a War Crime
What choices do progressives have?
The U.S. invasion of Iraq created 4 million refugees, about one-sixth of Iraq’s population
Prolonged solitary confinement, like other forms of torture, destroys a person’s dignity
North Dakota has just become the first state to legalize police use of drones equipped with “less than lethal” weapons
We must hold our leaders accountable for their crimes in Japan and Vietnam, and ensure that such atrocities never happen again
After Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush declared the Philippines a second front in the war on terror
One year ago, on July 7, 2014, Israel launched “Operation Protective Edge,” a massive assault on the Gaza Strip. For 51 days,…