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Tell President Obama: End the Hypocrisy on International Law

President Obama has denounced Russia for violating international law with its military intervention in Crimea. A new campaign points out that the United States is hardly beyond reproach. 

NationAction

March 6, 2014

President Obama speaks about national security. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

President Obama has denounced Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, calling it a “breach of international law.” Russia’s actions deserve criticism but, as a new campaign from RootsAction points out, the United States is hardly beyond reproach. Despite protestations from around the globe, our government routinely violates international law with drone strikes and missile attacks in countries such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

TO DO

Sign RootsAction’s petition calling on President Obama to end the United States’s own violations of international law.

TO READ

In her column for the Washington Post, Katrina vanden Heuvel calls for a sane, common sense approach to the crisis in Ukraine.

TO WATCH

On CNN’s Amanpour this week, vanden Heuvel reiterated her call for diplomacy and for “some sober perspective” from politicians in the Unites States, Russia and Ukraine.

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