Monthly Archives: June 2024

Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

Amanda Alexander writes in 2023: Abstract: This article traces the expansion of international law from the Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to the contemporary understanding that international law governs all participants in conflict. This can … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Rights, International Law | Comments Off on Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter

Human rights – the key to all mythologies! (6-21-24)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Luke Ford
Posted in Human Rights | Comments Off on Human rights – the key to all mythologies! (6-21-24)

Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

Amanda Alexander writes: International humanitarian law (IHL) is the term which names, and also conceptualises, the current regime of the laws of war. The name belongs to a particular narrative about the history and purposes of this regime. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Rights, International Law | Comments Off on Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe

Decoding Israel’s Coming War With Hezbollah (6-20-24)

Posted on June 20, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Caitlin Clark Conundrum, https://www.takimag.com/article/34053/08:00 Col Douglas Macgregor: Israel Prepares for All Out War in Lebanon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXD8t7gYpTo17:30 Turkey invades Cyprus with Russia’s blessing if Israel attacks Hezbollah28:00 Is Israel Committing Genocide? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15536541:00 Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917, … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Lebanon | Comments Off on Decoding Israel’s Coming War With Hezbollah (6-20-24)

Journalistic Ethics (12-9-20)

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Luke Ford

I was watching this Mike Fisher video he was he was ranting about Skip Bayless. Troy Aikman, Fox football analyst and former Dallas Cowboy championship quarterback, also said how very disappointed he was that Fox had hired Skip Bayless to … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism | Comments Off on Journalistic Ethics (12-9-20)