May 18, 2025 - Over a 100.000 people marched in The Hague, making it the largest demonstration in the Netherlands in 20 years, to condemn the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, and the complicity in this genocide of the Dutch government, universities, businesses and other institutions.
Most protesters came to the protest dressed in red, saying "Israel has to be stopped now, we are drawing the red line!", because even open ethnic cleansing, bombing of hospitals and ambulances, deliberate starving of children, constant war crimes and open genocide in general apparently aren't a red line for Israel to cross in the eyes of the Dutch government. [video]/[video]
Marco Rubio says the administration will try to “dismantle” the ICC. Who is he trying to protect?
Trump is not a fan if the International Criminal Court (ICC). Maybe it's because his pardons and his cronies on the US Supreme Court have no sway there.
The highest compliment that can be paid to the International Criminal Court is that the Trump administration is terrified of it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed that fear this week by declaring that the administration would use “all the tools at our government’s disposal” to “dismantle” the ICC.
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The ICC, which is based in The Hague, came into being in 2002 after more than 100 countries ratified the Rome Statute. Under that treaty, the court has jurisdiction to prosecute and try people for committing various crimes under international law, ranging from war crimes to genocide. Most of its prosecutions to date have targeted dictators and warlords in Africa and Asia.
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More than a few top Trump officials have good reason to worry about their own legal culpability before the ICC—and the effect it could have on their post-administration life—rather than that of the average American cop or soldier.
People like Trump, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, and Stephen Miller will have to be careful where they set foot after 20 January 2029.
Thank God. The baby girl survived.
I also saw footage that day of a young girl blown in half. No, she was literally blown in two as her father carried her.
It’s one of the worst photos I have ever come across or witnessed.
I don’t have the stomach to ever look at it again. It will haunt my dreams.
Joe Biden getting stage 4 bone cancer wasn’t even enough of a punishment for him, frankly.
June 15, 2025 - Around 150.000 people took to the streets in Den Haag, the Netherlands, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to demand an end to Israel's genocide, in the largest protest the country has seen since 2004. [video]/[video]
