Special Rapporteurs enjoy full diplomatic immunity under international law. Fellow experts suggest US sanctions could be the subject of proceedings before the International Court of Justice
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Repeat after me: Central banks can make large losses and who would care
All central banks that issue a sovereign currency: They can never go broke and could operate without problems with permanent negative equity. They are not profit-seeking companies owned by shareholders. They are part of the […]
EU politics
Duncan Wheeler – Basque Separatists ETA Set a Car Bomb That Helped Build Spanish Democracy
On this day in 1973, Basque separatists ETA assassinated far-right prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco. The action played an important role in ending Franco’s dictatorship — an inconvenient truth for the democratic Spain against which […]
Geopolitics
United Nations – “More than a human can bear”: Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction […]
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