Read the interview with director Miles Lagoze about the war documantary “Combat Obscura” in The Intercept.

After US government threats and US authorities revoking the visa of chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, the International Criminal Court (ICC) caved in and decided to no longer investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. Read about why the ICC should have opened an investigation into Afghanistan and why the decision might be impossibe to appeal.

Read what Craig Murray and RFI write about the case.

Accoun and Charta 2008 have prepared a new report to be submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the Universal Periodic Review of Sweden, which is scheduled to take place in January 2020. It is a unique report that highlights the crucial and systematic problems often ignored elsewhere.

Download the report

Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote on two agreements on trade and investment between the EU and Singapore. Just like TTIP, CETA and other similar agreements, the EU-Singapore deal is not primarily about trade. It is a another threat against equality before the law. The EU-Singapore deal contains a form of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and is supposed to be a model for future agreements.

See the petition STOP ISDS.

Michael Hudson recently wrote regarding grabbing of Venezuelan assets that a new international court is needed.

Read about the Stop Arming Terrorists Act proposed in the USA by congresswoman and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and watch Jimmy Dore about the smears of her.

Tulsi Gabbard

See the recent article and video about the military officials on trial in Italy.

NATO’s “Stay Behind” is suspected to have been involved in murders and terror attacks in a number pf European countries during the Cold War.

In Belgium, an ex-gendarme has recently been arrested on suspicion of hiding evidence regarding the Brabant killings, which took place in the 1980s.

In Germany 2014, the Octoberfest bombing case was reopened. One year before, the German historian Andreas Kramer testified that his father had as a “Gladio/Stay Behind” officer been involved in the bombing in 1980 (link to German article).

Since 1945, the word Holocaust has been used for the genocide of millions of European Jews, as well as members of some other persecuted groups, by the German Nazi regime during World War II. A book by Ruta Vanagaite and Efraim Zuroff about the Holocaust in Lithuania has recently been translated to Swedish. An article in Swedish explains why 27,000 copies of the original book are being destroyed. This is a translation of part of the article:

The Holocaust in Lithuania distinguished itself in several ways. In no other country (with a larger Jewish population) in the Europe occupied by Hitler, such a large proportion of the Jewish inhabitants were exterminated.

Of the 220,000 Jews that existed before the war, 96 percent were killed. Only 8,000 survived. The participation of the indigenous people in the Holocaust was unique in its scope, as about 20,000 Lithuanians participated in some form. In addition, the Lithuanians took an active part in the extermination of the Jews also in Belarus.

The country has not seriously dealt with its past. War criminals are still hailed today as heroes and streets and squares are named after people who participated in the murdering.

Since Ruta Vanagaite released the book Mūsiškiai or “Our People” in Lithuania a few years ago, she has continued to dig in history. But the authorities in Lithuania and the public opinion have proved extremely sensitive to her research.

Read also about Lithuania’s Museum of Holocaust Denial.