HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch

By Patrick Martin, 3 January 2015 (WSWS)*

Last month President Obama dispatched a formal letter to the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, listing a series of countries where US troops were or have been engaged in military operations during 2014. The preamble explains that the document is “consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), as part of my efforts to keep the Congress informed about deployments of U.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat.”

Source: WSWS

The War Powers Resolution was enacted by Congress in 1973, in the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Vietnam, and over the veto of President Richard Nixon, to require the president to keep the legislative branch regularly appraised of military operations that were being conducted without a congressional declaration of war.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Johan Galtung*, January 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service

Johan Galtung

Here is a list of 15 current conflicts-violence relations, avoiding identifying conflicts with violent conflict arenas:

– USA-Japan-South Korea vs North Korea vs China

– USA-ASEAN vs China-Taiwan and Japan vs Korea over China Sea islands

– USA-NATO-Japan vs China-Russia-SCO over encircling

– USA-EU vs Russia over Ukraine-Georgia membership in NATO-EU

– USA-led coalition/NATO vs Many, diverse parties in Afghanistan

– USA-led coalition/NATO vs Many, diverse parties in Iraq

– USA-Shia-Iran(?) vs Arabia-Sunni-caliphate/ISIS-Turkey(?)

– Kurds vs Turkey-Syria-Iraq-Iran over autonomy

– Israel vs Palestine over The Holy Land/Cana’an

– USA-Israel vs Arab-Muslim countries over Israel vs Palestine

– USA vs 134 states over terrorism using state torture-sniping-droning

– USA-UK-Canada-Australia-New Zealand (“Five eyes”) vs the World, spying

– USA vs China (USA-EU vs Eurasia) over the shape of geopolitics

– USA-UK-France-Italy-Norway vs Libya-Mali-Sudan-Somalia etc. in Africa

– USA vs Latin America/Caribbean over equality of the Americas