National Catholic Reporter May 12, 2015 [Also by the Huffington Post]
For more than a half-century, a series of UN resolutions and rulings by the International Court of Justice have underscored the rights of inhabitants of countries under colonial rule or foreign military occupation. Among these is the right to “freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources,” which “must be based on the principles of equality and of the right of peoples and nations to self-determination”…
Month: June 2015
The contrasting fates of Tunisia and Libya
National Catholic Reporter June 8, 2015 [and Common Dreams]
The people of Libya and Tunisia both overthrew long-standing dictatorships in popular uprisings in 2011. Four years later the political situation in these neighboring states could not be more different. The reason has much to do with how their regimes were overthrown…