{"quotes":[{"text":"We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic.' –Bill Gerstenmaier.","author":"Ron Garan","tags":["america","cold-war","global-community","globalism","globalization","international-law","international-relations","international-space-station","outer-space","russia","space-research","united-states","working-together"],"id":21458,"author_id":"Ron+Garan"},{"text":"It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","africans","cities-and-countries","citizen","citizen-of-the-world","citizens","citizens-of-humanity","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","collaborate","collaborations","college-life","combat","combat-diseases","cooperation","cooperation-s","disease","disease-prevention","diseases","ebola","ebola-disease","ebola-in-africa","ebola-in-central-africa","ebola-in-spain","ebola-in-usa","ebola-in-west-africa","ebola-origin","ebola-spread","ebola-victims","ebola-virus","educate","educate-children","educate-people","educate-the-youth-of-africa","educate-women","educated","educated-people","education","education-system","educational-philosophy","educational","educação","help","helpers","helpful","helping-hand","helping-mankind","helping-others","helping-out","helping-the-needy","helping-the-poor","international","international-","international-community","international-development","international-law","international-relations","prevent","prevent-it","preventative-medicine","preventing","prevention","prevention-is-better-than-cure","prevention-of-diseases-in-africa","prevention-of-ebola","supporting","supporting-family","supporting-others","supportive-actions","supportive","virus","west-africa"],"id":37719,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"...And unpredictability can spread: one powerful outlier can pave the way for others, and as more states joint the outlier, the foundations of the rule of law begin to crumble.US counterterrorism practices--and the legal theories that under-pin them--are undermining the international rule of law in precisely this way...","author":"Rosa Brooks","tags":["foreign-policy-of-the-us","international-law","war"],"id":42727,"author_id":"Rosa+Brooks"},{"text":"From the beginning, Europe assumed the power to make decisions within the international trading system. An excellent illustration of that is the fact that the so-called international law which governed the conduct of nations on the high seas was nothing else but European law. Africans did not participate in its making, and in many instances, African people were simply the victims, for the law recognized them only as transportable merchandise. If the African slave was thrown overboard at sea, the only legal problem that arose was whether or not the slave ship could claim compensation from the insurers! Above all, European decision-making power was exercised in selecting what Africa should export – in accordance with European needs. Pg. 77.","author":"Walter Rodney","tags":["africa","europe","history","international-law","power"],"id":44989,"author_id":"Walter+Rodney"},{"text":"The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adult-education","adult-life","adult-literacy","africa","cities-and-countries","citizen-of-the-world","citizens-of-humanity","citizens-of-the-world","citizenship","collaboration","combat","cooperation-and-attitude","cooperation-s","diseases","ebola","ebola-disease","ebola-in-africa","ebola-in-west-africa","ebola-origin","ebola-spread","ebola-victims","education","formal-education","health","health-and-fitness","health-care","health-care-reform","health-care-reform-in-africa","health-care-system","health-careers","healthy-living","historian","historians","history","history-of-mankind","history-of-philosophy","history-of-thought","history-politics","history-repeating-itself","informal","informal-education","informal-fallacy","informal-sector","information-literacy","international","international-cooperation","international-law","international-relations","preventative-medicine","prevention-of-diseases-in-africa","prevention-of-ebola","virus","west-africa","working-out","working-together","working-with-people"],"id":82337,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The massive heart wrenching barbaric violations and battles among the international states or even the Big Powers, megalomania ,‘ folie de grandeur’,and even the UN Peace keeping forces lead us only to understand of the meager contribution to the subject of IHL.","author":"Henrietta Newton Martin","tags":["battle-of-solferino","battles","big-powers","contribution-of-ihl","human-rights","human-rights-violations","humanitarian-laws","humanity","international-humanitarian-law","international-law","peace-movement","uno","war"],"id":128383,"author_id":"Henrietta+Newton+Martin"},{"text":"Endangering human life for profit should be a universal crime.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bribes","corporations","corrupt","corruption","crime","criminal-justice","freedom","greed","greedy","greedy-leaders","health","human-life","international-law","justice","law","leadership","life","politics","profit","profiteering","water"],"id":137848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, which ended Pol Pot's regime, and Tanzania's invasion of Uganda in 1979, to oust Idi Amin. In both cases, those countries acted without U.N. Or international approval—and in both cases they were right to do so.","author":"José Ramos-Horta","tags":["1978","2004","cambodia","cambodian-vietnamese-war","genocide","idi-amin","international-law","iraq","iraq-war","khmer-rouge","nobel-peace-prize","pacifism","peace","pol-pot","tanzania","tyranny","uganda","uganda-tanzania-war","united-nations","united-states","vietnam","war"],"id":186932,"author_id":"Jos%C3%A9+Ramos-Horta"},{"text":"Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US government and its allies do, whatever they do, has to be opposed—and opposed however thuggish and benighted the forces which this threatens to put your anti-war critic into close company with. For some, because of an uncontrollable animus towards George Bush and his administration. For some, because of a one-eyed perspective on international legality and its relation to issues of international justice and morality. Whatever the case or the combination, it has produced a calamitous compromise of the core values of socialism, or liberalism or both, on the part of thousands of people who claim attachment to them. You have to go back to the apologias for, and fellow-travelling with, the crimes of Stalinism to find as shameful a moral failure of liberal and left opinion as in the wrong-headed—and too often, in the circumstances, sickeningly smug—opposition to the freeing of the Iraqi people from one of the foulest regimes on the planet.","author":"Norman Geras","tags":["anti-americanism","anti-war-movement","ba-ath-party","ba-athism","ba-athist-iraq","george-w-bush","international-law","iraq","iraq-war","justice","law","leftism","liberalism","morality","nato","opposition-to-the-iraq-war","pro-war-left","saddam-hussein","socialism","stalinism","united-states"],"id":231539,"author_id":"Norman+Geras"},{"text":"The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting their gaze from the egregious impunity enjoyed by a notorious war criminal and lawbreaker, or they can become seized by the exalted standards to which they continually hold everyone else. The current state of suspended animation, however, cannot last. If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["crime","henry-kissinger","human-rights","international-human-rights-law","international-law","law","united-states","war-crimes"],"id":257140,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}