BY GRETCHEN COTHRON — On October 16, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned the conviction of Salim Hamdan for supporting terrorism. Hamdan v. United States, 11-1257, 2012 WL 4874564 (D.C. Cir. Oct. 16, 2012). Hamdan’s conviction was based on his activities as Osama bin Laden’s driver and […]
BY MARK DeSANTO — The Institute for National Security Studies (hereinafter, “INSS”) in Tel Aviv, Israel, conducted a “war game” on September 24, 2012, allowing sole access to a British film crew to capture the event. The war simulation game “was based on the scenario of a unilateral Israeli strike [on Iranian nuclear facilities] without […]
BY ALEJANDRA GUARNEROS — Chapter I, Article I of the United Nations Charter states that the purpose of the United Nations is “[t]o maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression […]
BY T.J. GREEN — The world is on the verge of witnessing an unprecedented event that has not been seen in modern history: the actual physical disappearance of a nation. The rise in global sea levels is threatening to submerge several small island states in the Pacific and Indian oceans. To make matters worse, this […]
