Sep 19 2024 57 mins 9
International Law: Real or Fiction?
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the term international rules-based order would be repeated by Washington officials almost daily to describe Moscow’s action. Then a curious thing happened when Israel invaded Gaza in 2023. The term virtually disappeared as the U.S. sought to protect its close ally Israel. But the U.S. itself has a long record of violating the international rules-based order with its invasions, occupations, coups, assassinations, sanctions and UN vetoes. Compliant corporate media consistently fail to point out this brazen hypocrisy. Since the leader of the so-called free world and its allies are not held to account the rules-based order is in total disorder. From Washington’s perspective, the rules are for thee but not for me.
Speaker: Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a professor of Africana Studies in the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. She is the author of the award-winning book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.
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After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the term international rules-based order would be repeated by Washington officials almost daily to describe Moscow’s action. Then a curious thing happened when Israel invaded Gaza in 2023. The term virtually disappeared as the U.S. sought to protect its close ally Israel. But the U.S. itself has a long record of violating the international rules-based order with its invasions, occupations, coups, assassinations, sanctions and UN vetoes. Compliant corporate media consistently fail to point out this brazen hypocrisy. Since the leader of the so-called free world and its allies are not held to account the rules-based order is in total disorder. From Washington’s perspective, the rules are for thee but not for me.
Speaker: Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a professor of Africana Studies in the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. She is the author of the award-winning book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.
Description from www.alternativeradio.org
