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The Obama Campaign Has Done More Than Just Ruffle Big Birds Feathers

  The execs at Sesame Street say the Obama Campaign used Big Bird in one of their ads with out permission. They say, if they had been asked, permission would not have been granted, as they are a non-for-profit, non-partisan entity.    The Letter “P” This article is brought to you by the letter P […]

Accused Serbian War Criminal Ratko Mladic Sent to the Hague

For over a decade, Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic was one of the world’s most wanted men. Tuesday evening, May 31, as the metal doors of the Dutch prison in Scheveningen closed behind him, their clang heralded an overdue victory for international justice and possibly a new beginning for Serbia, where the general spent most of his fugitive years.

Germany Tries Its Last Nazi War Crimes Defendant

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, an 89-year-old retired auto worker from Ohio went on trial in Germany on Monday in what many are calling the country’s last Nazi war crimes proceeding. That’s not the only reason the world is watching the trial closely: John Demjanjuk is also No.

Expert: Yugoslav war crimes victims need ‘truth commission’

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has successfully brought dozens of war criminals to justice, but a “truth commission” is still necessary if the region’s ethnic factions are ever to achieve lasting reconciliation, according to a former legal adviser to the court.