Marjorie Cohn

Trump’s Illegal Boat Strikes Recall Duterte’s “Drug War” Mass Killings Former Philippine President Duterte awaits trial in the ICC for using the pretext of a drug war for his murder campaign.

Here's the new article I wrote. Former Philippine President Duterte awaits trial in the ICC for a crime against humanity for using the pretext of a drug war for his murder campaign. Trump should also be charged with a crime against humanity.

Poll: More Approve of Dems’ Message to Military Members to Disobey Illegal Orders Than Trump’s “Sedition” Attacks “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders,” a group of Democrats said in a video message in November.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's statements accusing Democratic lawmakers of “sedition,” and in fact a majority actually approve of those lawmakers' statement that soldiers have a legal right to disobey orders issued by Trump if they feel those orders are illegal.

Hillary Clinton Says Young People Oppose Gaza Genocide Because of “Totally Made Up” Videos The former secretary of state spoke at a conference organized by a far right Israeli paper run by a Trump megadonor.

Showing her true colors

Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.

Here's the new article I wrote.

America Isn’t a Democracy—And Only Cross-Racial Solidarity Can Change That The Princeton Study, Haiti’s example, and 250 years of history all point to the same truth: oligarchies fall only when the people refuse to be divided.

The US War of Independence wasn’t a real revolution. It was a transfer of power from wealthy British elites to US ones. 

The United Nations General Assembly just voted to condemn torture. The United States was one of only three countries that voted against it.
(The other two were the U.S.-backed far-right governments of Argentina and Israel.)

Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information.

Here's the new article I wrote, published today. The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information.

From Executive Overreach to Undeclared Wars, We Are Living in the World Cheney Made Dick Cheney has died, according to reports Tuesday morning, at the age of 84.

"Dick Cheney midwifed the emergence of a new warfare marked by extrajudicial killing, torture, secrecy, and endless war that transformed American society and politics, perhaps forever."

Veterans For Peace Says: NO WAR on VENEZUELA! Veterans Condemn Trump’s Murder of South American Fishermen

My article is embedded in this statement.