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Donald Trump says Iran nuclear sites were 'obliterated' by US strikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6wP543XiYo

#Trump #WarForIsrael #Aggression #Iran #Netanyahu #WarCriminals #TrumpLies #StopWars #StopTheKilling #RogueStates #InternationalCrime #CrimesAgainstHumanity #WW3 #Putin

P.S.: War criminals can't "demand" anything, FM of genocidal Israel, the Hague awaits!

Btw.: US-American Republicans would response with arming civilians in order to defend themselves and their property, as their constitutional right, so your narrative of #gaza with only Occupation Forces armed is a bit controversal here, I would recommend to consult your legal team to educate yourself :)

#violationoftruce #ceasefire #us

#CrimesAgainstHumanity #RogueStates #ihl #icc #icj #TheHagueGroup

So wild that #israel can fire on #UnitedNations troops, declare the #GeneralSecretary #personanongrata, and commit genocide against #palestinians and #lebanese but it's countries like #northkorea and #iran that get labelled #roguestates when their transgressions compared to Netanyahu's look downright peaceful...

#politics #internationalpolitics #MiddleEast

The on-line Jubilee 2000 article is great: It may have been what motivated me to go to Fukuoka for the Jubilee 2000 march drring the Kyushu/Okinawa G-8 summit. I have the Rogue States book around here somewhere but I don't think I got very far into it. Curiously, I seem to be able to finish more serious books with an ebook reader. I can switch back and forth among docs, a novel, and a heavy (economic, military, systemic, I guess) atrocity book without losing any of them. And then I can stay engaged while taking a reading break by getting the .epub up on a real PC screen for quoting and checking out the sources... The book's version is better: I guess it's been edited and probably gone through iterative development as the article is worked over and used for the basis of talks too. The book's Jubilee 2000 chapter has a lot more sources, and I noticed a line that had been made more precise too.

.> A complementary approach might invoke the old-fashioned capitalist idea that those who borrow are responsible for repayment, and those who lend take the risk.
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Whatever the system we have now is, it might not even by "capitalist" it's just corruption decorated with vague images about what Adam Smith mentioned like "the invisible hand" and not his aim which was that freedom would bring about equality. (That' s in another Chomsky work: the Democracy and Education speech he gave at Loyola Univeristy in the 90s).

.> The banks were eager to lend and upbeat about the prospects. On the eve of the 1982 disaster Citibank director Walter Wriston, known in the financial world as “the greatest recycler of them all,” described Latin American lending as so risk-free that commercial banks could safely treble Third World loans (as proportion of assets). After disaster struck, Citibank declared that “we don’t feel unduly exposed” in Brazil, which had doubled bank debt in the preceding 4 years, with Citibank exposure in Brazil alone greater than 100% of capital. In 1986, after the collapse of the international lending boom in which he was a prime mover, Wriston wrote that “events of the past dozen years would seem to suggest that we [bankers] have been doing our job [of risk assessment] reasonably well”; true enough, if we factor in the ensuing socialization of risk, welcomed by Wriston and others famous for their contempt of government and adulation of the free market.
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.> Jeffrey Sachs, “International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization, “Foreign Policy (Spring 1998); Paul Krugman, “Cycles of Conventional Wisdom on Economic Development,” International Affairs 71:4 (Oct. 1995). Joseph Stiglitz, “Some Lessons from the East Asian Miracle,” World Bank Research Observer 11:2 (Aug. 1996). Stiglitz was soon to be appointed chief economist of the World Bank. For his reflections on the East Asian crisis, see his WIDER Annual Lectures 2, UN University, 1997; “An Agenda for Development in the Twenty-First Century,” Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1997, IBRD, 1998.

.> Jeffrey Sachs, “International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization, “Foreign Policy (Spring 1998); Paul Krugman, “Cycles of Conventional Wisdom on Economic Development,” International Affairs 71:4 (Oct. 1995). Joseph Stiglitz, “Some Lessons from the East Asian Miracle,” World Bank Research Observer 11:2 (Aug. 1996). Stiglitz was soon to be appointed chief economist of the World Bank. For his reflections on the East Asian crisis, see his WIDER Annual Lectures 2, UN University, 1997; “An Agenda for Development in the Twenty-First Century,” Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1997, IBRD, 1998.

.> Lissakers, Banks, Borrowers; Cheryl Payer, Lent and Lost (Zed, 1991).

https://chomsky.info/19980515/

#FlightCapital #RogueStates #DropTheDebt #Citibank #WalterWriston
#JeffreySachs #PaulKrugman #JosephStiglitz quoted in #RogueStatesBook by #NoamChomsky #Jubilee2000

Oldie but Goodie (1998 writing about Jubilee 2000!) I'm still in touch with people I met thanks to the Jubilee Kyushu movement. One was a university student then an a mother of two daughters now. She's been fighting the good fight all that time, 12 years ago she was helping a Thai environmental journalist tour Japan, meeting the places and people fighting against the damage from dams and for reparations to the victims of pollution disasters. Now she's fighting for the rivers and mountain people against more wasteful dams... It's fascinating to think how movements might not effect an immediate change in the one issue that brings people together at one time, but people go on struggling against injustice and try to help each other out...

There are other relevant precedents. When the U.S. took over Cuba 100 years ago it cancelled Cuba’s debt to Spain on the grounds that the burden was “imposed upon the people of Cuba without their consent and by force of arms.” Such debts were later called “odious debt” by legal scholarship, “not an obligation for the nation” but the “debt of the power that has incurred it,” while the creditors who “have committed a hostile act with regard to the people” can expect no payment from the victims. Rejecting a British challenge to Costa Rican laws cancelling the debt of the former dictator to the Royal Bank of Canada, the arbitrator — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft — concluded that the Bank lent the money for no “legitimate use,” so its claim for payment “must fail.” The logic extends readily to much of today’s debt: “odious debt” with no legal or moral standing, imposed upon people without their consent, often serving to repress them and enrich their masters. ^1

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The picture generalizes, and breaks little new ground. A study of the global economy points out that “defaults on foreign bonds by US railroads in the 1890s were on the same scale as current developing country debt problems.”5 Britain, France, and Italy defaulted on US debts in the 1930s. After World War II, there was reported to be heavy flow of capital from Europe to the United States. Cooperative controls could have kept the funds at home for post-war reconstruction, but, some analysts allege, policymakers preferred to have wealthy Europeans send their capital to New York banks, with the costs of reconstruction transferred to US taxpayers. The Marshall Plan approximately covered the “mass movements of nervous flight capital” that leading economists had predicted. ^2

https://chomsky.info/19980515/

While searching for this link I just saw it became a chapter in Rogue States. A quick glance makes me think it may have been rearranged and edited a bit: and has more sources too!

^1 Patricia Adams, Odious Debts (Earthscan, 1991); Lissakers, Banks, Borrowers. Witness for Peace, A Bankrupt Future: The Human Cost of Nicaragua’s Debt (WFP, 2000); Envio (Managua, Nicaragua: UCA), 18.220, Nov. 1999.

^2 Eric Helleiner, States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994).

#Jubilee2000 #JubileeKyushuu #MarshallPlan #CapitalFlight #OdiousDebt #OdiousDebts #RogueStates by #NoamChomsky

#^Jubilee 2000

The Noam Chomsky Website.

Bitcoin and MAGA: a match made in Hell.

"Inside the MAGA-fueled fever dream of the 2024 Bitcoin Conference... most people I spoke to were not at the conference for the fringe player. They were there to see Trump"
https://www.theverge.com/24211345/bitcoin-conference-2024-nashville-trump-maga-crypto
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#cryptocurrency #racism #sexism #bigotry #bitcoin #MoneyLaundering #OrganizedCrime #SexTrafficking #dictator #RogueStates #terrorism

@KawaTora The sadness here is that none of it is a surprise. #roguestates

For folks wanting an update on what's being planned for our future, including the specific path to "no you're not allowed to do that, it's too risky."

Leading to more questions, such as how this unpacks in the context of the "nine-dash line" and other currently emerging nose-thumbings at maritime law?

#MarineCloudBrightening
#OceanAlkalinityEnhancement
#BiomassCultivationForCarbonRemoval
#SurfaceAlbedoEnhancement
#SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw
#RogueStates

https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2023/10/20/an-update-on-the-evolving-legal-landscape-for-ocean-based-carbon-dioxide-removal-key-outcomes-of-the-october-2023-meeting-of-the-parties-to-the-london-convention-and-protocol/

@w7voa Leaders of rogue states will meet, because one of them is embarrassingly low on ammunition in his criminal war of aggression against free Ukraine.

#StandWithUkraine #StandWithFreedom #StandWithHumanity #PutinsWar #WarOfAggression #WarCrimes #Genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #FreeRussia #KimJongUnhumane #HungryKorea #RogueStates