The next episode of my live podcast is this upcoming Tuesday, August 25, at 10:00am EDT with former Israeli diplomat Alon Liel and former Palestinian minister and peace negotiator Ziad Abu Zayyad. Alon Liel is the former director general of the Foreign Ministry of Israel and was also Israel`s ambassador to South Africa. Ziad Abu Zayyad is a former Palestinian Authority Minister and Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, a former negotiator, and the co-editor of the Palestine Israel Journal.
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Italy is facing a human rights challenge before the European Court of Human Rights after releasing a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The case raises profound questions about accountability, victims` rights, and whether political and security interests can override international legal obligations.
Today’s podcast guest is Hon. Lise Pearlman (ret.), a former California trial lawyer and first Presiding Judge of the California State Bar Court. Following her retirement from the bench, Judge Pearlman has become a best-selling author and nationally recognized speaker on famous 20th century trials whose books have won multiple awards in the categories of law, U.S. History, and multicultural nonfiction.
In this episode, we discuss her book With Justice for Some: Politically Charged Criminal Trials of the Early 20th Century That Helped Shape Today’s America and a few of the significant cases detailed within, and delve into the injustices surrounding each trial and how they have impacted the American legal system.
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Ten years after the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2286 to protect healthcare in war zones, hospitals, clinics, doctors, and aid workers remain under attack. Most alarming, both the United Nations and human rights organizations report that state actors are responsible for many of these violations. Protecting medical workers and patients must become a global priority.
I watch America, once the continent of conscience, sink into the gray fog of decree and fear, a de facto kingdom draped in a flag. Authoritarianism blooms where solidarity dies; when the heart no longer binds us, power arrives with batons and whispered laws, imposed like chains mistaken for gains. The choice is ours. This is how empires die— not with one grand collapse, but under the weight of debts, guns, and a future pawned for power. We have faced darker hours and prevailed not by chance, but by courage—but only if we summon a counterrevolution of conscience. Every peaceful instrument of resistance must now be brought to bear—march, strike, vote, speak, refuse. When Americans, across every faith, color, creed, and party, rose in shared purpose—like a gathering storm of conscience that no demagogue could defy.
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The most insidious horror of all—not that human beings are capable of cruelty, but that cruelty and violence can become routine, administered, and legitimized by identity, faction, or territory. Stories of atrocities are reported but often overshadowed by geopolitics. The innocent become instruments, not ends. This erosion represents not merely a policy failure, but a failure of moral responsibility — the inability to see “the other” as oneself. To confront honestly cruelty and damning human rights violations is to abandon the illusion that history bends automatically toward justice. We must all recognize that without institutions capable of responsibility, power tends toward annihilation. The Sudanese civil war is a warning written in blood.
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Trump claws at the machinery of elections, greasing gears with deception and fear. The “Save America Act” reads like a eulogy, not a law—a counterfeit salvation, un-American to its core. Ballots are meant to be the people's prayers, not puzzles rigged by power. When the vote is warped, so is the soul of the nation that counts it. How can tens of millions offer the country on an altar to a criminal, corrupt, conniving idol—contemptible, coercive, conspiratorial—and call it faith? What spell has been cast that they trade their children’s future for a strongman’s ravenous delusion? What hunger in the human soul chooses chains over courage, a demagogue over the demanding art of freedom?
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Environmental defenders around the world are increasingly facing threats, violence, arrests, and criminalization for protecting their land and communities. Human Rights Watch documents abuses against Indigenous people, climate activists, and land defenders from Brazil and Indonesia to Uganda and Europe. In some countries, peaceful protesters are prosecuted, civil society organizations are targeted, and activists are branded as criminals simply for opposing environmental destruction. As climate change intensifies, these voices are more important than ever. Governments must protect environmental defenders, investigate attacks against them, and guarantee their rights to peaceful assembly, association, and expression. Defending our planet is not a crime.
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