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No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government has taken after 9/11 in the name of national security. Torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or "black sites"), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror, and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed by US intelligence agencies and armed forces, no high US official has been prosecuted for these violations.

Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays.

Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military commanders. These soldiers, afflicted with rare cancers and respiratory diseases, were sickened from the smoke and ash swirling out of the "burn pits" where military contractors incinerated mountains of trash, including old stockpiles of mustard and sarin gas, medical waste, and other toxic material.

As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda's chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began to call him their spy with nine lives. This is the story of how a young Muslim, determined to defend his faith, found himself fighting on the wrong side - and his fateful decision to work undercover for his sworn enemy.

"Congolese Politician Is Convicted of War Crimes" is from March 21, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"As Aid Reaches Syrians, U.N. Chief Says Withholding Food Is a War Crime" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and Nick Cumming Bruce and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Hissène Habré, Ex-President of Chad, Convicted of War Crimes" is from the May 30, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Dionne Searcy and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"Congolese Politician, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Sentenced to 18 Years for War Crimes" is from the June 21, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Radovan Karadzic, Ex-Bosnian Serb Leader, Is Convicted of Genocide and War Crimes" is from the March 24, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Serbian Nationalist Acquitted of War Crimes by Hague Tribunal" is from the March 31, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Case Looms for Possible U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan" is from the November 14, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Somini Sengupta and Marlise Simons and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Aleppo Is a 'Slaughterhouse,' Says U.N. Official Seeking War Crimes Inquiry" is from the October 21, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Nick Cumming Bruce and Anne Barnard and narrated by Corey M. Snow.

" French Journalist Is Detained at U.N. War Crimes Tribunal" is from the March 27, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Marlise Simons and narrated by Caroline Miller.

New Deal Law and Order follows President Franklin Roosevelt, Attorney General Homer Cummings, and their war on crime coalition, which overcame the institutional and political challenges to the legitimacy of national law enforcement. Promises of law and order helped to manage tensions among key Democratic Party factions—organized labor, Black Americans, and white Southerners. Their anticrime program, featuring a strengthened criminal code, an empowered FBI, and the first federal war on marijuana, was essential to the expansion of national authority previously stymied on constitutional grounds.

From the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far is he willing to go? The great lesson of the outbreak of World War I in 1914 was the danger...

Zusammen mit seinem Regiment überfiel Pawel Filatjew die Ukraine. Dann entschloss er sich, nicht mehr mitzumachen – und der Welt die dreckige Wahrheit über den Wahnsinn dieses Krieges zu erzählen. Am 24. Februar 2022 um vier Uhr morgens marschierte der russische Fallschirmjäger Pawel Filatjew mit seinem Regiment in die Ukraine ein. Er war am Angriff auf Cherson beteiligt, saß in den Schützengräben um Nikolajew. Nach zwei Monaten an der Front wurde er verwundet; im Lazarett beschloss er, aufzuschreiben, was er gesehen und erlebt hatte: Verwüstung, Leichen, ratlose, verängstigte Befehlshaber, marodierende Truppen und Plünderer.

When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator.

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism. On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former...

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

For the first time in history, the navies of the world have united against a common enemy - a couple of thousand rag-tag, underfed men and boys in the western Indian Ocean. Crammed into open boats and armed with ancient AK-47s, they range up to a thousand miles from home shores in Somalia. No one knows how many die at sea. But occasionally they hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews to be ransomed for millions of dollars.