Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (August 26-September 1)

Guantanamo and 9/11 Trials

• 9/11 Family Members Can Get Answers through Plea Agreements, Not a Trial
  by Terry Rockefeller

Afghanistan and Financial Sanctions

• Dollars Deployed: How the Weaponization of the U.S. Financial System Contributed to Afghanistan’s Collapse
  by Timor Sharan (@TimorSharan)

BRICS Summit

• BRICS Summitry: What Takeaways for the United States?
  by Margaret Myers (@MyersMargaret)

Trump Trial: Fulton County, Georgia

• Removal of Criminal Cases to Federal Court: 25 FAQ’s
  by Andrew Warren, Siven Watt (@SivenWatt) and Norman L. Eisen (@NormEisen)
• The Hatch Act Bars Meadows’ Removal Bid
  by Walter Shaub, Norman L. Eisen (@NormEisen) and Joshua Kolb (@JoshuaGKolb)
• Answering Judge Jones’ Question About Removal of Meadows’ Case
  by Norman L. Eisen (@NormEisen), Joshua Kolb (@JoshuaGKolb) and Andrew Warren

Affirmative Action and International Law

• Racial Justice Without Affirmative Action: Embracing International Law after SFFA v. Harvard
  by Ian M. Kysel and G. Alex Sinha

White Supremacy: Threat Assessment

• Amid Robert Rundo’s Extradition, the White Supremacist Active Clubs Network Remains a Threat
  by Morgan Moon and Jon Lewis (@Jon_Lewis)

Enforced Disappearances: Mexico

• Through Food, We Remember: A Search for Missing and Disappeared in Mexico and Beyond
  by Arunav Kaul (@arunavkaul)

Elections / Democratic Backsliding: Guatemala and Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe’s Troubled Election: Might Southern African Leaders Follow the Example of Their Observers?
  by Larry Garber
• Landslide Victory by Guatemala’s Social Democrats Spurs Furious Backlash
  by Naomi Roht-Arriaza (@roht_naomi)

Civil Society / Repression

• The Right to Protest Is Under Assault. Frontline Activists Show How to Fight Back.
  by Brandee M. Butler (@mllebrandee)
• The Overlooked but Potent Artist in the Fight Against Autocracy
  by Suzanne Nossel (@SuzanneNossel)

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance

• The Government’s Section 702 Playbook Doesn’t Work Anymore
  by Patrick C. Toomey (@PatrickCToomey), Sarah Taitz and Kia Hamadanchy

Podcast: Responsibility to Protect

• The Just Security Podcast: The UN’s R2P Problem
  Paras Shah (@pshah518) interview with Rebecca Barber (@becjbarber)