All posts tagged: complicit

‘Not forcing Israel to respect international law is to be complicit in genocide’

‘Not forcing Israel to respect international law is to be complicit in genocide’

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Raji Sourani, a Palestinian human rights lawyer from Gaza, in Guernica (Spain), January 20, 2024. VINCENT WEST / REUTERS Raji Sourani, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, left Gaza in November 2023. The 70-year-old Paris-based lawyer, who has long been at the forefront of international legal proceedings launched by the Palestinians, has criticized France’s stance toward Israel and the silence from Karim Khan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor. You were living in Gaza when the war began on October 7, 2023. Why and how did you leave? I was living in the Tel al-Hawa district of Gaza City, with my wife and 30-year-old son. As soon as it began, the Israelis asked everyone to evacuate. I stayed. On October 18, a fireball destroyed our house. I’m sure that that bombing was deliberate. We moved in with my brother, then again into another family home. A few days later, a mosque and a police station near where we lived were bombed. That’s when I decided to leave Gaza. I headed south to …

James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren’t fooled by Russian lies — they’re complicit

James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren’t fooled by Russian lies — they’re complicit

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Last week, the “whistleblower” that House Republicans were counting on to justify a long-planned impeachment of Joe Biden was arrested for lying to the FBI. In a twist that should surprise exactly no one, it appears almost certain that Alexander Smirnov’s claim to have evidence implicating the president and his son, Hunter, in criminal activity was fabricated. Worse yet, it also seems plausible that the “source” of the lies was Russian intelligence services. House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., had built the effort to impeach Biden around Smirnov’s invented testimony, and has now tacitly admitted that this arrest may derail the Biden impeachment, which has been in the works since long before Republicans had even decided what “crime” they would pretend to believe Biden committed.  In the wake of Smirnov’s arrest, a narrative has surfaced among the punditry holding that Comer and other Republicans who championed Smirnov’s fictions must be a bunch of morons. Joe Scarborough of MNBC, the bellwether of centrist Beltway thinking, unleashed on Wednesday morning about “Republicans being played once again by Vladimir Putin,” …

Carmakers could be complicit in abuse of China’s Uyghurs, report says

Carmakers could be complicit in abuse of China’s Uyghurs, report says

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Jim Wormington, a senior researcher and advocate for corporate accountability at Human Rights Watch, said: “Car companies simply don’t know the extent of their links to forced labour in Xinjiang in their aluminium supply chains. “Consumers should know their cars might contain materials linked to forced labour or other abuses in Xinjiang.” According to HRW, the risk of coercion in the aluminium industry is linked to Chinese government-backed labour transfer programmes, which force Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims into jobs in Xinjiang and other parts of the country. The rights group cites “credible evidence” from Chinese state media articles, company reports and government statements to back up its research. It also reports that fossil fuel companies supplying coal to Xinjiang’s aluminium producers have received labour transfer workers at their coal mines. The report draws heavily from a 2022 report by Sheffield Hallam University and the NomoGaia group on links between aluminium smelters in Xinjiang and major global carmakers, as well as research on links between the region’s smelters and labour transfer schemes. ‘Crimes against humanity’ …

The Observer view on Boris Johnson’s resignation: the Tory party is complicit in this disaster | Observer editorial

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Boris Johnson resigns as he governed: in a blitz of misinformation, abjectly failing to accept responsibility for wrongdoing, and lacking in even a shred of integrity. The statement he issued on Friday evening announcing he was standing down from parliament with immediate effect was characteristically graceless, bitter and deceitful. Though he hinted he would like to make a political comeback, his withdrawal from British political life is long overdue. It is an incredible turn in political fortune for a former prime minister who less than four years ago won a general election with an 80-seat majority. Three years later he was forced to resign after being fined by the police for breaking the lockdown regulations he expected everyone else to comply with, sometimes at unthinkable personal cost. Now after seeing a draft of the privileges committee verdict on whether he intentionally misled parliament, he has decided to step down as an MP altogether. This implies that this cross-party committee of MPs – chaired by the respected Labour MP Harriet Harman, and with a majority of …