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“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. By violation of the Nuremberg laws I mean the same kind of crimes for which people were hanged in Nuremberg. And Nuremberg means Nuremberg and Tokyo. So first of all you’ve got to think back as to what people were hanged for at Nuremberg and Tokyo. And once you think back, the question doesn’t even require a moment’s waste of time. For example, one general at the Tokyo trials, which were the worst, General Yamashita, was hanged on the grounds that troops in the Philippines, which were technically under his command (though it was so late in the war that he had no contact with them — it was the very end of the war and there were some troops running around the Philippines who he had no contact with), had carried out atrocities, so he was hanged. Well, try that one out and you’ve already wiped out everybody.
“But getting closer to the sort of core of the Nuremberg-Tokyo tribunals, in Truman’s case at the Tokyo tribunal, there was one authentic, independent Asian justice, an Indian, who was also the one person in the court who had any background in international law [Radhabinod Pal], and he dissented from the whole judgment, dissented from the whole thing. He wrote a very interesting and important dissent, seven hundred pages — you can find it in the Harvard Law Library, that’s where I found it, maybe somewhere else, and it’s interesting reading. He goes through the trial record and shows, I think pretty convincingly, it was pretty farcical. He ends up by saying something like this: if there is any crime in the Pacific theater that compares with the crimes of the Nazis, for which they’re being hanged at Nuremberg, it was the dropping of the two atom bombs. And he says nothing of that sort can be attributed to the present accused. Well, that’s a plausible argument, I think, if you look at the background. Truman proceeded to organize a major counter-insurgency campaign in Greece which killed off about one hundred and sixty thousand people, sixty thousand refugees, another sixty thousand or so people tortured, political system dismantled, right-wing regime. American corporations came in and took it over. I think that’s a crime under Nuremberg.
Some images from Iran. This is the country, like all the countries before it, that the U.S. and its allies want to raze to the ground (click image to go to video page):
The Israeli state bombs Iran. So the Iranian government responds against Israel. U.S. troops are in occupied Palestine during the attack. There then exists a direct pretext for U.S. intervention.
Too simplistic? Hardly. “Missile defense” programs are a first strike weapon.
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“Several thousand US troops headed to Israel for ‘unprecedented’ joint missile defense exercise
On Dec 20 Jerusalem Post reported thousands of American soldiers were deploying to Israel to take part in the “the largest-ever missile defense exercise” in Israel’s history. So far, the U.S. media is not covering it, but Iran sure is.”
Apartheid state apparatus fires on Palestinian fisherman off Gaza coast
From the Jordan to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!
I don’t fish anymore. But I did a ton as a kid. Several times a week during my childhood summers. The thought of a warship coming up and firing on me for fishing is nausiating. Anyone who doesn’t use words like terror and apartheid to describe the murderous, perfidious state-apparatus occupying sacred Palestine – ALL OF IT, not some compromised border – is a scoundrel and a traitor to humanity.
“Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-A Palestinian fisherman was moderately injured Monday morning when Israeli navy opened fire at his fishing boat off the coast of Northern Gaza Strip.
Adham Abu Silmiyia, medical emergency spokesman, said that the man, 42, was brought to Asshifa hospital in Gaza city to receive medication due to injuries sustained his body.
Witnesses told that Palestinian fishermen who were working there left the sea in order not to be hurt by Israeli gunboats fire.
Palestinian fishing boats are exposed daily to Israeli harassments and attacks that caused financial damages, injuries, deaths, or abductions.”
“When Israel unleashed Operation Cast Lead against the Occupied Territories in Gaza, killing over 1,400 Palestinians – men, women, children, and the elderly — and a respected South African judge, Richard Goldstone issued a report calling the strafings, bombings and high caliber shooting of civilians “war crimes”, what did the Obama administration do? Did it criticize the bombers, or the judge?” – Mumia Abu Jamal, “Rebels in Every Nation“
Brick by Brick!
Wall by Wall!
Free Mumia Abu Jamal!
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