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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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The Terror Two Hours South

Comments (1) | autogenocide, beheadings, Bill Maher, cartels, child prostitution, child soldiers, citizen journalists, Columnists, columnists, crimes against humanity, Daily Mail, discourse, Genocide, global turning points, Gulf Cartel, human rights, Iguala, isis, islam, Jose Luis Abarca, Journalism, los Guerreros Unidos, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, Maria del Rosario Fuentes, Media, Mexico, Middle East, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, organ harvesting, rape, reynosa, Ricardo Cesar Nino Villarreal, Sam Harris, Slavery, torture, Twitter, United States, war, Zeta cartel

Steve Helmeci
Columnist

More Americans have died due to Mexican cartel violence than in the entirety of the Iraq War.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

How To Deter A Genocidal Maniac: Strengthening The International Criminal Court

Comments (1) | 1998 Rome Convention, Africa, african union, Central African Republic, Columnists, crimes against humanity, Democratic Republic of Congo, displacement, failed states, fragile state, Genocide, global turning points, International Criminal Court, international news, ivory coast, Kenya, Kikuyu tribe, Laurent Gbagbo, Loa tribe, militias, murder, nairobi, rape, Rwanda, somalia, Sudan, the hague, uganda, Uhuru Kenyatta, United States, Yugoslavia

Steve Helmeci
Columnist

The ICC could change the world - if the United States would let it.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Report Shows ISIS Committed Mass Murder In North Iraq

Comments (1) | armed, atrocity, captured, civilian, conflict, crimes against humanity, execution, guns, HRW, human rights, human rights watch, Iraq, isis, islamist, kidnap, men, Middle East, Military, murder, Nation and World, site, Syria, Tigris, Tikrit, trenches, Trucks, violation, war

Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

A Human Rights Watch analysis of photographs and satellite imagery reveals mass execution of civlians.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

International Weapons Expert Urges Caution In Syria

Comments (0) | Assad regime, Bashar al-Assad, chemical weapons, chemical weapons attack, crimes against humanity, huffington post UK, jean pascal zanders, military intervention, Nation and World, neurotoxin, Obama, sarin, Syria, Syrian civil war

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Francesca Bessey
Executive Producer

How can we be sure sarin was used?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Kerry Calls Assad 'A Thug And A Murderer'

Comments (1) | Afghanistan, chemical weapons, crimes against humanity, human rights, Iraq, John Kerry, Middle East, Nation and World, President Obama, secretary of state, Syria, syria military intervention

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Francesca Bessey
Executive Producer

"It matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens."

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

U.S. Offers $5 Million For Capture Of Joseph Kony

Comments (0) | child soldier, crimes against humanity, Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, Kony 2012, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, Nation and World, uganda, war crimes

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Cara Palmer
Executive Producer

Kony and his lieutenants are wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Film "Tears of Gaza" Misrepresents War Between Israel And Hamas

Comments (6) | crimes against humanity, Gaza Strip, Hamas, international law, Israel, israel defense force, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Opinion, Palestine, Palestinians, students for justice in palestine, tears of gaza, terrorism, terrorist organizations

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Jonathan Kalfus
Guest Contributor

Films like this are incredibly dangerous; they provide selective footage of a larger conflict, and thereby skew the facts.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Red Cross Begins Evacuations In Syria

Comments (0) | crimes against humanity, Friends of Syria, International, President Assad, Red Cross, Syria, un

Paige Brettingen
Executive Producer

Women and children are the first to be evacuated.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Donald Rumsfeld Stripped Of Immunity In Torture Case

Comments (60) | abu ghraib, crimes against humanity, Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Vance, Nathan Ertel, Opinion, torture

(Justin Norman, Phillip Harder, and Wesley Norman, Creative Commons)

Cara Palmer
Senior Opinion Editor

Removing Rumsfeld’s status of immunity sends a larger message.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Gaddafi Faces Charges For Using Rape As A Weapon

Comments (0) | crimes against humanity, Eman al-Obeidy, Gaddafi, ICC, International, International Criminal Court, libya, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, rape

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Reut Cohen
Senior Editor

Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says evidence is convincing.

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