American academic Noam Chomsky Renowned American academic, Noam Chomsky, says US President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush, along with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should face trial for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the ensuing turmoil in the Arab state. “Bush and Blair ought to be up there [at the International Criminal Court]. There is no recent crime worse than the invasion... 

A startling report prepared by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is today warning that the case known as United States v. Kebodeaux, and due to be heard by the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on 17 April, will be the most important ruling in all of American history as should it be lost, the Obama regime, and all of those to follow, will have gained total power to rule the lives of US citizens “from... 

Americans might once again be guaranteed the right to trial: a clause in the most recent draft of next year’s defense spending bill ensures that United States citizens aren’t stripped of their right to habeas corpus. Lawmakers have included provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 that relieves those worried with how last year’s bill allows for the indefinite... 

Two Coptic boys aged 9 and 10 are awaiting trial after an Islamic cleric accused them of tearing up and urinating on the Koran. The boys’ families say the boys are illiterate and found the Koran pages while playing with garbage. ­Sheik Gamal Shamardal, a Muslim cleric and the local leader of a hardline Islamist group, referred two local boys to police in the village of Ezbet Marco in the southern... 

Unless Tehran retracts its lawsuit over Moscow’s refusal to deliver S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, Russia will take a tougher stand on the Iranian nuclear issue, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday. “We have already made it clear to Iran that lawsuits are not helping the development of our relations,” the newspaper quoted a Russian presidential administration source as... 

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (C) waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court in Islamabad on February 13, 2012. Pakistani Prime Minster Yousuf Raza Gilani has been convicted of contempt of court for refusing to reopen old corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. After a three-month trial, the country’s Supreme Court on Thursday found the premier guilty for failing to follow... 

Facing charges related to his alleged failure to safeguard Iceland’s economy during the 2008 financial crisis, former Prime Minister Geir Haarde firmly denied any wrongdoing as he became the first world leader to go on criminal trial for such charges. From the dock, Haarde emphatically rejected all accusations, asserting, “I reject all accusations, and believe there is no basis for them.”... 

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets, demanding that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh face trial for the deadly crackdown on months of protests. Demonstrations have erupted in the capital, Sanaa, and other cities across the country. Despite signing a deal last month to step down as president in exchange for immunity from prosecution, Saleh continues to be a focal point of... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac The trial of former French President Jacques Chirac has opened in his absence in Paris on charges of misusing public funds during his time as mayor of the city. Chirac’s lawyers had last week submitted a medical report to the court, explaining that the 78-year-old is in a state of vulnerability that makes him unable to answer questions about his past, the... 

Accused: Powell brushed off Cheney's claims that he tried to undercut President Bush's policies in Iraq. An aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell has hit out at Dick Cheney, saying the former Vice President fears being ‘tried as a war criminal’ Powell’s long-time aide and chief of staff, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson told ABC news Cheney, ‘Was president for all... 

Guilty: Moshe Katsav, who was president of Israel from 2000 to 2007, has been convicted of rape in a Tel Aviv court ‘Riddled with lies’: Former Israel president Moshe Katsav facing four years behind bars after being found guilty of rape. The former president of Israel has been found guilty of two charges of rape this morning. Moshe Katsav, who was in charge of Israel for seven years from... 

The Obama administration is preparing an executive order that would formalize indefinite detention without trial for some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but allow those detainees and their lawyers to challenge the basis for continued incarceration, U.S. officials said. The administration has long signaled that the use of what the administration calls prolonged detention,... 

Assaults, thefts, even murder cases routinely come before the Monroe County grand jury. But today, the small town grand jury heard a big time case against the president of the United States. Click here to find out more! Walt Fitzpatrick is dead serious. He thinks the president is guilty of treason. He wanted to take his case in front of the full grand jury. But when he was only offered a panel of... 

A German court said on Monday that 89-year-old former death camp guard John Demjanjuk will be tried for “complicity to murder” 27,900 people, in what could be one of the last cases of its kind. Prosecutors believe the Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk helped herd tens of thousands of Jews and others into the gas chambers while a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. Demjanjuk,... 

Phil Spector is likely to die in prison after the legendary Jewish music producer was convicted of murder for shooting the actor Lana Clarkson in a drunken and “sadistic” bout of Russian roulette. The Los Angeles jury spent nearly nine days deliberating over the case in which the prosecution portrayed Spector, 68, as a misogynist with a history of pulling guns and “playing Russian...