law crime
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Could Fossil Fuel Companies Ever Be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity?
Someone does something wrong, and is held accountable for it. It’s a pleasant notion, one with no bearing whatsoever on the world of the super-rich, whose various plunderings, deceptions, and general anti-humanity behaviours have gone and will continue to go unpunished. But does it have to be this way? Might we one day see an…
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UN Finds Steven Donziger’s House Arrest Violates International Law, Says It’s ‘Appalled’
The world’s top human rights legal body just offered a crucial show of support for Steven Donziger, the attorney who won a landmark multibillion-dollar case against an oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The ruling came on the eve of his sentencing in a criminal trial.
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Ethereum Researcher Pleads Guilty to Advising North Korea on How to Use Crypto to Evade Sanctions
An American cryptocurrency researcher has admitted to violating U.S. law by attending a blockchain conference in North Korea in 2019, where he gave advice on how to elude U.S. sanctions.
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This Image of Doom Isn’t From a Movie, It’s From the New Fawn Fire
At first glance, the image of the billows of smoke above looks like something out of an apocalyptic horror movie. Nonetheless, if there’s anything the climate crisis has taught us over the past few months, it’s that fire and smoke are unfortunately part of the new normal for now. So no, the image above isn’t…