Janet H Anderson
@janethanderson.bsky.social
Journalist, podcaster, campaigns/advocacy consultant. Atrocity crimes, human rights, conflict.
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Following Climate Crisis litigation? The ruling comes this week in the Greenpeace-backed case on Dutch state obligations to mitigate climate change in the island of Bonaire under international treaties. Check our throwback episode from 2024: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 102 – Bonaire’s Climate Litigation – The Eco Files
Greenpeace expert Eefje de Kroon and planitiff Kjelld Masoud Kroon talk on the podcast about the climate litigation brought by the Caribbean island of Bonaire against the Netherlands
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January 26, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Following Climate Crisis litigation? The ruling comes this week in the Greenpeace-backed case on Dutch state obligations to mitigate climate change in the island of Bonaire under international treaties. Check our throwback episode from 2024: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
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How do survivors see the International Criminal Court?
At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz
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How do survivors see the International Criminal Court?
At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz
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Justice Update – Survivors @ The ICC
We sat down with torture survivors from Kenya, Venezuela and Ukraine to ask them what their experience engaging with the International Criminal Court and seeking justice is. Check out all the backg…
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January 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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How do survivors see the International Criminal Court?
At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
How do survivors see the International Criminal Court?
At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
“There is no independent oversight, with International Committee of the Red Cross visits halted from October 2023, and prisoners are denied contact with their families or any news from the outside world”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...?
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail
Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence
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January 21, 2026 at 6:17 AM
“There is no independent oversight, with International Committee of the Red Cross visits halted from October 2023, and prisoners are denied contact with their families or any news from the outside world”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...?
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"Gambia is doing really accurate comparisons to past genocides” to show 'patterns' and 'similarities' with genocides like Srebrenica, the Holocaust or Rwanda"
Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence
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Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge... @janethanderson.bsky.social @drmelob.bsky.social
Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence
What evidence does the small west African state provide to prove genocidal intent? Seven years ago, Gambia has brought Myanmar to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over genocide against the Roh...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"Gambia is doing really accurate comparisons to past genocides” to show 'patterns' and 'similarities' with genocides like Srebrenica, the Holocaust or Rwanda"
Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge... @janethanderson.bsky.social @drmelob.bsky.social
Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge... @janethanderson.bsky.social @drmelob.bsky.social
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Chit-chatting w/ @janethanderson.bsky.social about the #Gambia v #Myanmar #GenCon #ICJ hearings, which are taking up most of my time lately! Such an important case. #genocide #intlaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge...
Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence
What evidence does the small west African state provide to prove genocidal intent? Seven years ago, Gambia has brought Myanmar to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over genocide against the Roh...
www.justiceinfo.net
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Chit-chatting w/ @janethanderson.bsky.social about the #Gambia v #Myanmar #GenCon #ICJ hearings, which are taking up most of my time lately! Such an important case. #genocide #intlaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge...
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Our 'throwback' episode this week is on genocide and gender. At this week's hearings at ICJ in the Gambia v Myanmar genocide case, the role that CRSV played will be central to how to prove alleged 'intent' in the clearance operations against the Rohingya. www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 12 – Genocide and Gender with Akila Radhakrishnan
On the day of Gambia’s historic filing with the ICJ to ask Myanmar to ‘stop the genocide of the Rohingya’ Janet and Stephanie talk to Akila Radhakrishnan of the Global Justice Cen…
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January 12, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Our 'throwback' episode this week is on genocide and gender. At this week's hearings at ICJ in the Gambia v Myanmar genocide case, the role that CRSV played will be central to how to prove alleged 'intent' in the clearance operations against the Rohingya. www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
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Vacature (Senior) Adviseur Internationale Hoven en Tribunalen en Internationale Misdrijven bij NL MinJenV, met accent op het opzetten van de voorbereidende fase van een #Agressietribunaal voor de vervolging van het misdrijf agressie tegen #Oekraïne.
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De Rijksoverheid zoekt: (Sr.) Adviseur Internationale Hoven en Tribunalen en Internationale Misdrijven
(Sr.) Adviseur Internationale Hoven en Tribunalen en Internationale Misdrijven in Den Haag voor 36 uur bij Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid
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January 10, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Vacature (Senior) Adviseur Internationale Hoven en Tribunalen en Internationale Misdrijven bij NL MinJenV, met accent op het opzetten van de voorbereidende fase van een #Agressietribunaal voor de vervolging van het misdrijf agressie tegen #Oekraïne.
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We're back - shaken out of holiday mode by Trump, Maduro Venezuela. For a quick take on international law implications and potential avenues for real accountability listen later today to @bcfinucane.bsky.social and Ignacio Jovtis
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
We're back - shaken out of holiday mode by Trump, Maduro Venezuela. For a quick take on international law implications and potential avenues for real accountability listen later today to @bcfinucane.bsky.social and Ignacio Jovtis
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Foreign policy by petty grievance and petulant envy.
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
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“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Foreign policy by petty grievance and petulant envy.
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Here's a statement from Venezuelan opposition leader and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, in it's original Spanish and with an English translation (machine translation).
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Here's a statement from Venezuelan opposition leader and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, in it's original Spanish and with an English translation (machine translation).
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For our last War Criminals Book Club of the year, we review The Cranes Call. With Hope Rikkelman we discuss the importance of working together with the local community when investigating Russia's war crimes in #Ukraine
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For our last War Criminals Book Club of the year, we review The Cranes Call. With Hope Rikkelman we discuss the importance of working together with the local community when investigating Russia's war crimes in #Ukraine
Listen:
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December 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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For our last War Criminals Book Club of the year, we review The Cranes Call. With Hope Rikkelman we discuss the importance of working together with the local community when investigating Russia's war crimes in #Ukraine
Listen:
www.patreon.com/posts/war-cr...
For our last War Criminals Book Club of the year, we review The Cranes Call. With Hope Rikkelman we discuss the importance of working together with the local community when investigating Russia's war crimes in #Ukraine
Listen:
www.patreon.com/posts/war-cr...
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Another art 63 intervention in the Gaza Genocide case which makes 15 in total, two of which are also art 62 interventions.
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Another art 63 intervention in the Gaza Genocide case which makes 15 in total, two of which are also art 62 interventions.
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Colombian mercenaries fighting for the RSF in #Sudan - responsible for mass rapes & systematic killing - were recruited from an address in N. #London
Colombians in 🇸🇩 have “had a profound impact on the trajectory of the conflict” including the training of children
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Colombians in 🇸🇩 have “had a profound impact on the trajectory of the conflict” including the training of children
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Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’
Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in Sudan
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December 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Colombian mercenaries fighting for the RSF in #Sudan - responsible for mass rapes & systematic killing - were recruited from an address in N. #London
Colombians in 🇸🇩 have “had a profound impact on the trajectory of the conflict” including the training of children
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Colombians in 🇸🇩 have “had a profound impact on the trajectory of the conflict” including the training of children
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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With immense thanks to the corpus of stellar @justsecurity.org analysis on international humanitarian law, I hope those preparing for Spring semester courses can benefit from this curated supplement. Please share with anyone who could use!
Teaching a legal course this semester where recent armed conflict events are relevant, or know someone who is?
The IHL Syllabus Supplement connects educators with salient law and policy discussions.
Curated from JS archives by @bechamilton.bsky.social and Danae Askar.
The IHL Syllabus Supplement connects educators with salient law and policy discussions.
Curated from JS archives by @bechamilton.bsky.social and Danae Askar.
International Humanitarian Law: Syllabus Supplements
This syllabus supplement offers curated articles intended to be combined with traditional casebooks in a law or higher ed classroom.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
With immense thanks to the corpus of stellar @justsecurity.org analysis on international humanitarian law, I hope those preparing for Spring semester courses can benefit from this curated supplement. Please share with anyone who could use!
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Excellent article by @janethanderson.bsky.social summarizing the main themes of this year’s Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af... via @justiceinfo.bsky.social
After the ICC Assembly, the elephants remain in the room
While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, which has just concluded, refused to address the e...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Excellent article by @janethanderson.bsky.social summarizing the main themes of this year’s Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af... via @justiceinfo.bsky.social
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“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
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December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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The incumbent and former ICC judges targeted by this coercive measure (Article 70 crime, by the way):
- Tomoko Akane
- Rosario Aitala
- Sergio Ugalde Godínez
- Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
- Piotr Hofmański
- Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza
- Bertram Schmitt
- Reine Alapini-Gansou
- Tomoko Akane
- Rosario Aitala
- Sergio Ugalde Godínez
- Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
- Piotr Hofmański
- Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza
- Bertram Schmitt
- Reine Alapini-Gansou
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The incumbent and former ICC judges targeted by this coercive measure (Article 70 crime, by the way):
- Tomoko Akane
- Rosario Aitala
- Sergio Ugalde Godínez
- Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
- Piotr Hofmański
- Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza
- Bertram Schmitt
- Reine Alapini-Gansou
- Tomoko Akane
- Rosario Aitala
- Sergio Ugalde Godínez
- Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
- Piotr Hofmański
- Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza
- Bertram Schmitt
- Reine Alapini-Gansou
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⚡️The Moscow City "Court" convicted the ICC Prosecutor & 8 sitting/former judges of "unlawful prosecution" of Russian citizens (because one of them got so upset). ICC officials were sentenced in absentia (keep it that way!) to jail terms of 3.5-15 years. Karim Khan received 15.
December 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
⚡️The Moscow City "Court" convicted the ICC Prosecutor & 8 sitting/former judges of "unlawful prosecution" of Russian citizens (because one of them got so upset). ICC officials were sentenced in absentia (keep it that way!) to jail terms of 3.5-15 years. Karim Khan received 15.
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'Rusland geeft ICC-rechters symbolische celstraf uit woede om arrestatiebevelen'
Rusland geeft ICC-rechters symbolische celstraf uit woede om arrestatiebevelen
Een rechtbank in Moskou heeft meerdere topfiguren van het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) een celstraf opgelegd. De straffen zijn vooral symbolisch, omdat Rusland het ICC niet erkent. Het lijkt een reac...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
'Rusland geeft ICC-rechters symbolische celstraf uit woede om arrestatiebevelen'
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This trial is also the result of the cooperation of a Joint Team, including a number of states, Europol and the International Criminal Court (ICC). So we asked @luigiprosperi.bsky.social what kind of precedent this can set for the ICC’s cooperation with States
December 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This trial is also the result of the cooperation of a Joint Team, including a number of states, Europol and the International Criminal Court (ICC). So we asked @luigiprosperi.bsky.social what kind of precedent this can set for the ICC’s cooperation with States
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In November, the trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker took place in the Netherlands. There was a lot to unpack, so we asked @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social how significant this trial is + how Eritrean organisations operate
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In November, the trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker took place in the Netherlands. There was a lot to unpack, so we asked @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social how significant this trial is + how Eritrean organisations operate
Listen:
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Justice Update – Dutch Trial for alleged human trafficker with Mirjam van Reisen
In this episode, we discuss the Dutch trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker accused of leading an organisation in Libya. Mirjam van Reisen tells us more about it. And we explore how the IC…
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December 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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In November, the trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker took place in the Netherlands. There was a lot to unpack, so we asked @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social how significant this trial is + how Eritrean organisations operate
Listen:
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
In November, the trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker took place in the Netherlands. There was a lot to unpack, so we asked @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social how significant this trial is + how Eritrean organisations operate
Listen:
www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
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#HumanTrafficking [podcast] - Eritrean Amanuel Walid was arguably the highest human trafficker to stand trial in Europe. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts draw lessons from this trial in the Netherlands + an upcoming one at the International Criminal Court.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153530-hu...
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153530-hu...
Human trafficking, crime of the highest order
Eritrean Amanuel Walid was arguably the highest human trafficker to stand trial in Europe. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts draw lessons from this trial in the Netherlands and an upcoming one at ...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#HumanTrafficking [podcast] - Eritrean Amanuel Walid was arguably the highest human trafficker to stand trial in Europe. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts draw lessons from this trial in the Netherlands + an upcoming one at the International Criminal Court.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153530-hu...
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153530-hu...
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Who is at the leadership of the networks trafficking migrants from #Eritrea, through #Libya and to Europe? @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social tells us about the recent trial for alleged Eritrean trafficker Walid in the Netherlands, how the organisations operate and change over time
Who is at the leadership of the networks trafficking migrants from #Eritrea, through #Libya and to Europe? @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social tells us about the recent trial for alleged Eritrean trafficker Walid in the Netherlands, how the organisations operate and change over time
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Who is at the leadership of the networks trafficking migrants from #Eritrea, through #Libya and to Europe? @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social tells us about the recent trial for alleged Eritrean trafficker Walid in the Netherlands, how the organisations operate and change over time
Who is at the leadership of the networks trafficking migrants from #Eritrea, through #Libya and to Europe? @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social tells us about the recent trial for alleged Eritrean trafficker Walid in the Netherlands, how the organisations operate and change over time
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#InternationalCriminalCourt - While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the #ICC, refused to address the elephant in the room.
This year, there were several of them.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af...
#ASP24
This year, there were several of them.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af...
#ASP24
After the ICC Assembly, the elephants remain in the room
While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, which has just concluded, refused to address the e...
www.justiceinfo.net
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#InternationalCriminalCourt - While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the #ICC, refused to address the elephant in the room.
This year, there were several of them.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af...
#ASP24
This year, there were several of them.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af...
#ASP24
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This issue has been explained very thoroughly in an episode of @asymmetricalh.bsky.social discussing the investigations into crimes committed against migrants in Libya www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...
Justice Update – Migrant traffickers on trial in Europe
How come two Eritrean men are on trial in Italy and the Netherlands connected to human trafficking in Libya? With Gerben Wilbrink for the Dutch prosecution, Giorgia Righi for the Italians, and Nico…
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December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This issue has been explained very thoroughly in an episode of @asymmetricalh.bsky.social discussing the investigations into crimes committed against migrants in Libya www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...