Tag: Justice

• December 16, 2022

  Castro and Revolutionary Justice

  From the Foreign relations of the United States, 1958-1960. Cuba. Volume VI, 1958-1960 Cuba is criticized for “Revolutionary Justice”. Castro’s responds on 22 January 1959: Editorial Note 238: The rally, held in front of the Presidential Palace and attended by approximately 500,000 people, lasted 5 hours. The main speaker was Fidel Castro, who spoke for…
• July 27, 2020

  Henry George: Progress and Poverty

  Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. The book is a treatise on the questions of why poverty accompanies economic and technological progress and why economies exhibit a tendency toward…
• July 30, 2018

  Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia

  On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Heller v. District of Columbia. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second…
• July 25, 2018

  John Rawls and the Veil of Ignorance: A Thought Experiment on Fairness

  Edited from the Book of Life, Political Theory: John Rawls Many of us feel that our societies are a little – or even plain totally – ‘unfair’. But we have a hard time explaining our sense of injustice to the powers that be in a way that sounds rational and without personal pique or bitterness.…
• February 16, 2018

  HSBC, the US Justice Department, and the War on Drugs

  December 11, 2012: HSBC Bank agreed to pay $1.256 billion and enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department for HSBC’s violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA). According to court documents, HSBC Bank USA violated the BSA…
• January 10, 2018

  World Court: U.S. is Guilty of International Terrorism

  Hi, In 1986, the United States was found guilty by the International Court of Justice of breaching international law by engaging in international terrorism. The case is known the Case Concerning the Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America). The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has its seat…
• February 3, 2017

  The United States and the ICC: An Alarming Declaration to the World

  In Rome on July 17, 1998, 120 nations voted to create a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) to try war crimes, crimes against humanity, crime of aggression, and genocide. Only seven nations opposed the measure, including Iraq, China, Israel and the United States. On 11 April 2002, the ratifications necessary for entry into force of…