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#EndlessWar
#AdamCurtis #BBC Adam Curtis spelled this out December 31, 2014 - over a decade ago: "The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control."
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#JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath
Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
Nick Mottern
Jan 12, 2025
"On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.
"The Tribunalâs 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaignâwithout equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and lengthâis largely dependent on the products of the tribunalâs four defendant corporations.
"The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.
"The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.
"For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.
"A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.
"After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.
"The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.
"Students at Smith College occupied the schoolâs administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The schoolâs board of trustees refused, calling the schoolâs holdings ânegligibleâ. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress studentsâ free speech.
"Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.
"Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.
"Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.
"More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
"We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.
"We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.
"The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 peopleâstudents, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.
"Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.
"In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.
"We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.
"Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast â Merchants of Death Radio.
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/merchants-of-death-tribunal
To register:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/press-conference-tribunal?clear_id=true
#WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar
"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"
John Milton
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[#Podcast] #LawAndDisorder, September 9, 2024
#September11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked
"It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The #GeorgeWBush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged #EndlessWars against #Afghanistan and #Iraq, pushed through Congress the USA #PatriotAct, opened the notorious detention center at #GuantanamoBay which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for #IndefiniteDetention, initiated a wave of #CivilLiberties and #HumanRights violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others.
"To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, weâve invited someone who was at the center of Bushâs #WarOnTerror. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News.
"In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIAâs torture program, telling ABC News that the #CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of #AbuZubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda.
"He became the sixth #whistleblower indicted by the #Obama administration under the #EspionageAct of 1917 â a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations.
"In 2012, the #RalphNader family honored #Kiriakou with the Joe A. Callaway Award for #CivicCourage, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USAâs prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers."
Listen:
https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/
#CIASponsoredTerror #CivilRights, #CriminalizingDissent #ExtraordinaryRendition #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #IraqWar #BushAdministraiton #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolation #TargetingMuslims #Torture #WarResister #Whistleblowers #CivilLiberties #CivilLibertiesRadio #EndlessWar
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