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Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice. Ex-@theindependent @amnesty @hrw @freedomfromtorture

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RAID @raid-uk.bsky.social · 17h
🔎 One to watch, starting next week: the LBMA goes on trial in a case that could have significant implications for the global gold market and 'ethical' certification schemes. www.reuters.com/world/uk/cen...
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Centuries-old London Good Delivery system for gold faces modern accountability test
The London Bullion Market Association will defend itself in London's ​High Court from October 7 against a claim that it owed a duty of care to two Tanzanian artisanal miners ‌allegedly killed at the N...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 17h
This is a REALLY interesting piece by @thehopeguy.eurosky.social — about how hope can help change narratives & confront dark politics better than hopelessness & anger. (Some relevance for Burnham’s successes — and Greens — also in UK now.)
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One powerful Nov 2023 analysis was by Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk , Algeria & Gaza. “FLN launched a gruesome attack in and around the harbour town of Philippeville. In response, France carried out a campaign in which more than ten thousand Algerians were killed.”
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Adam Shatz · Vengeful Pathologies
The inescapable truth is that Israel cannot extinguish Palestinian resistance by violence, any more than the...
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on The Crazy Guy in DC who gets ever madder with his determination to destroy global justice — and whether governments can finally find voice & take action to push back. As Joni M sang: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just say Lügenpresse, this is taking forever.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Gaza documentary has elicited a nationwide uproar. After years of repression, denial and lies, apathy and indifference, the pus has burst forth in a mighty stream. This is a healthy process, even if it includes ugly manifestations Gideon Levy www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion | Thanks to 'NAZA' hysteria, Israel is finally talking about Gaza
The Gaza documentary has elicited a nationwide uproar. After years of repression, denial and lies, apathy and indifference, the pus has burst forth in a mighty stream. This is a healthy process, even ...
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The institutional response to the film and the threats against its creators are characteristic of dictatorial regimes,” said the statement, signed by groups including Peace Now, Adalah, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and Breaking the Silence.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have admired Ed Miliband for a while, but his voice now is beyond essential. His words are moving, human, & so important
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A brilliant and powerful voice in so many contexts, what a loss
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‘Newsnight’s kindest critic’: Bonnie Greer was always effortlessly in command
Playwright was an unusual mix of originality and authority and in high demand as a cultural critic
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In their wildest dreams Hamas couldn't do as much damage to Israel as Netanyahu and his government has.
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a remarkable example (one of an increasing number) of how a cynical attempt to silence critical voices backfires and helps amplify those voices
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
George I was crowned on 20th October 1714. He could not speak very much English and the ceremonies had to be conducted mostly in Latin as his ministers could not speak German. FYI for those who insist on immigrants speaking "the King's English." www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commem...
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George I | Westminster Abbey
George I was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 20th October 1714. He could not speak much English and the ceremonies were mostly conducted in Latin.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump was 4 miles from the Twin Towers in his office on 5th avenue watching it on TV and then the smoke in the distance out of the window as his own lawyer has made clear in interviews previously. There were no fireman who carried him out of his office.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Read this to get a clear picture of what Miliband is talking about bsky.app/profile/alon...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Law professor, Heidi Matthews with a run down on today’s first round of Germany’s pleadings on its preliminary objections in the case concerning the alleged violations of certain international obligations relating to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. threadreaderapp.com/thread/20969...
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Thread by @Heidi__Matthews on Thread Reader App
@Heidi__Matthews: Oral hearings opened today @CIJ_ICJ regarding Germany's preliminary objections to Nicaragua's case against it alleging violations of its obligations under the Genocide Convention, th...
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RAID @raid-uk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
After more than a decade of investigations, litigation and extraordinary legal expense, one of the most important – and troubling – corruption cases handled by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has come to an end. But history should not be rewritten. RAID's comment: raid-uk.org/the-uk-sfo-e...
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The ENRC corruption saga is over – but history should not be rewritten
The SFO-ENRC legal settlement closes a remarkable chapter. But it should not be allowed to rewrite its history. Learn more.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Remember who you are." - Mufasa - Palestinian children watch Lion King in Gaza 🇵🇸 📸 Omar Ashtawy
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
That's right America--the big disaster of the Russo-Ukraine War is that the Ukrainians have decided to fight back.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/09/2026
A liberal is a conservative who just got mugged by the police
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Looking through holiday photos today, the last day of summer. Here are 2 photos I havetaken 8 years apart looking towards the sublime Mont Blanc massif. My son has doubled in size. The glaciers have halved. We are destroying the world they are growing up in. 💔
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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People in Ukraine do not have the luxury of putting it out of their minds; this reality has become our daily life. The only thing separating people in European countries from this reality is that Ukrainians continue to hold back massive Russian violence, preventing it from advancing further.
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Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Air raid alerts have been sounding continuously, day and night, in Kyiv over recent days. They sound dozens of times a day.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/08/2026
Independent bookstores in Hong Kong offer a window for mainland Chinese readers who seek ideas suppressed at home. But these shops are under threat following a wave of bookseller arrests under a 2024 national security law.
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Hong Kong's independent bookstores, a refuge for Chinese readers, are under threat
Independent bookstores in Hong Kong offer a window for mainland Chinese readers who seek ideas suppressed at home.
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“look how wrong we were! The way bombs came and killed those girls in Minab, in hospitals, schools, so many innocents. U.S. and Israel don’t care about Iranian people at all. We were fools to believe in America.” Enraging, sad, so obviously true
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And so farewell Ratko Mladic. An absolute monster of a human being.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Andy Burham and European leaders fly to Kyiv yesterday. Today Trump sends head of CIA to Moscow. You'd like to think there was something serious in this that would make world better and safer place. But it is the Trump admin so almost certainly some egregious fuckwittery
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/08/2026
⚡️US snubs joint UN rebuke of Russian strikes against Ukraine — again. Dan Negrea, a U.S. envoy to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, instead called upon "both sides" to cease any strikes that might pose a risk to civilian vessels.
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US snubs joint UN rebuke of Russian strikes against Ukraine — again
Dan Negrea, a U.S. envoy to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, instead called upon "both sides" to cease any strikes that might pose a risk to civilian vessels.
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Weirdly fascinating & eloquent as a symbol for so much else. Each figure trying to contain the sense that “this is not how it should be”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is very good. Some points that I think are worth adding: Without the reporting of the Guardian and other 'progressive' or 'liberal' outlets on this, many of the important details that *rebut* some of the charges would not be in the public domain.
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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir
Amid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oh thank you @bronwenmanby.bsky.social for the shoutout! — And yes I love Belarusian creativity in impossible circumstances including fab clapping story referenced by @doctorow.pluralistic.net (Working title for Street Spirit was “Forbidden Applause”…). Surreal & courageous at same time…
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
All you need to know, concerning Ben-Gvir. That’s it.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
WOW: Right-wing Israeli Think Tank Hires Lobbyists to Push U.S. Withdrawal From UN. Misgav Institute hired major lobbying firm to disseminate a critical report co-authored by a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Israel's former UN ambassador www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Right-wing Israeli think tank hires lobbyists to push U.S. withdrawal from UN
Misgav Institute hired major lobbying firm to disseminate a critical report co-authored by a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Israel's former UN ambassador: 'Nowhere are the UN's double standards...
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Wow. Astonishing and entirely unsurprising in equal measure. (Or, asThat President said, Ukraine supposedly has “no cards”. Ha.)
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Even if a new government wanted to rein in violent settlers, it would be difficult,” said Sari Bashi, the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. “Settlers have been given weapons and vehicles by the government, they’re emboldened." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/o...
A piece of text in the New York Times article by Nicholas Kristof describing how Israeli settlers have harassed and threatened Palestinian shepherd Majeed Hassan "more times than he can count."
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British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) @biicl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How does the International Criminal Court recover after dismissal of its prosecutor Karim Khan? Our Director and CEO, Sonya Sceats, explains the disciplinary proceedings and steps that would help to stabilise the Court in an hour of need for international justice. buff.ly/wzTSYQZ
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
„It’s about whether Canada is willing to go from being an ally and partner to being a vassal, subject to Washington fiat — like the Venezuela of Delcy Rodríguez, only with snowdrifts and hockey.” — @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social on brilliantly blistering form about the crazy guy
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thanks for highlighting one of great poems of all time — written under martial law in Communist Poland, much quoted in Bosnia ten years later — & too relevant today. It could be postscript poem in Lindsey Hilsum’s brilliant poetry & war anthology www.penguin.co.uk/books/459046...
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I Brought the War with Me
'Remarkable' ANDREW MOTION 'Revelatory' CAROL ANN DUFFY 'Movingly profound' WILLIAM BOYD I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to ...
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In Hereford/area in September? Lots of brilliant book events at Hereford Military History Festival (no you DON’T have to be a history buff) including… a discussion on #justice themes & Prosecuting the Powerful. Come join! www.ticketsource.com/military-his...
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Stirling memorial Series: Finding Justice in the Fog of War at Visit Herefordshire Stage, St Peter's Church
Tickets are now available for Stirling memorial Series: Finding Justice in the Fog of War at Visit Herefordshire Stage, St Peter's Church, Hereford on Sat 26 Sep 2026. Click the link for further infor...
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A bit of a must-read, depressing though it may be
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reupping my @prospectmagazine.co.uk piece on how Israel systematically razed Gaza. One man who grew up in Rafah, the southern Gaza city now largely destroyed, said this to me: “You can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know” /4 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
These are truly extraordinary quotes in this thread, boasting of crime & destruction — and, as @aloner.bsky.social makes clear, are supposed to HELP victory in upcoming election. Beyond depressing that a sense of humanity becomes irrelevant here
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is a brilliant, darkly funny and — to quote the author herself — “wild” description of just one element of the lunacies that the Trump administration unleashes every day, here confronted by a sane & deeply unimpressed judge
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The small group that voted against an extension of the UN human rights chief’s mandate includes the 🇺🇸 , 🇷🇺 , 🇰🇵 , 🇮🇱 , 🇦🇷 and 🇲🇱. France was not amused, stating: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore… And the world no longer listens to it.”
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 25/07/2026
You see this frontpage and do genuinely wonder what on earth the conversation must have been between the senior editors when they were laying it out...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“as the truce stagnates, it appears Israel is digging in, heightening Palestinian fears that the line is morphing into a border..
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