US Punishes International Criminal Court for Investigating Potential War Crimes in Afghanistan. — from The Conversation The Trump administration has sought to weaken or abandon various international agencies since 2016.
Now it’s taking aim at the International Criminal Court, a global tribunal that investigates and prosecutes war crimes, torture, and genocide. Claiming the ICC’s investigation into alleged war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan poses a national security threat, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on June 11 effectively criminalizing anyone who works at the ICC. G4S Response for USA Today UPDATE. Guards lose and steal G4S guns. Some wind up at assaults, rapes, murders. One security company, three warlords and dozens of dead Afghan children. One summer night in 2008, a U.S. military mission to capture a Taliban leader in Afghanistan turned tragic when a gunship decimated the tiny village of Azizabad.
American special operation forces came under fire from insurgents, some of whom were Pentagon subcontractors at ArmorGroup, a subsidiary of global security giant G4S. Pinned down, the Marines called in air support, which rained fire on the village for almost two hours. Buried in the rubble the next morning were dozens of civilians, including as many as 60 children. The problems began months earlier when ArmorGroup hired two local warlords on the U.S. intelligence payroll to provide armed guards at an airfield on the western edge of Afghanistan in 2007.
Those warlords fought for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out. USA TODAY reporter Brett Murphy traveled to Afghanistan and interviewed government officials, villagers and former company employees. Read or Share this story: Read or Share this story: Patriotism is a Fraud and You Have Been Duped. “Leibesh: Rabbi!
May I ask you a question? Rabbi: Certainly, Lebisch! Leibesh: Is there a proper blessing… for the Tsar? Rabbi: A blessing for the Tsar? Of course! (Originally published on Gods & Radicals) I have always viewed Patriotism as an aberration. As a young boy I had an unyielding thirst to read, and somewhere along the line I become very aware of the racist history of the ole’ USA. Needless to say, I was an odd child. But even past the very vivd reality of race other things didn’t add up. I didn’t fare much better in high school, somehow winding up in the JROTC program. Under that humid sun the last class marched out, distant at first but slowly holding high a homemade USSR flag and chanting the name “STALIN!” The incident was a turning point in my life.
It was only through later study that I determined these poor folks had been infected by a terrible virus, one that’s contaminated not only this country but every country on the planet. The Hypocrisy Is Unbearable: Iraq vs. Crimea, Can You Spot the Difference? UPDATE: "Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands; an example of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko's vitriol in phone call leaked online.
She confirmed the authenticity of the conversation on Twitter, while pointing out that a section where she is heard to call for the nuclear slaughter of the eight million Russians who remain on Ukrainian territory was edited (not present in this clip). " Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians: Tymoshenko tape leak Since the hypocrisy of the United States calling for international law to be observed is only lost to the mainstream media, the uber rich, and the bought and paid for of this society with the attention span of a worm, here is a quickie about Iraq vs. Crimea. I. The war in Iraq did not end when the United States was kicked out, not by a long shot(2). “Kofi Annan, declared explicitly… that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal. Scott Ritter - Iraq Confidential II. Obama to Putin: Do as I say, not as I do… Obama to Putin: Do as I say, not as I do… By Adrian Salbuchi August 09, 2013 "Information Clearing House -A row between the US and Moscow over Snowden’s extradition has reached a new level of tension after Barack Obama canceled a long-planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, again showing the adherence of US to double-standard politics.
This goes back to Putin finally deciding to give temporary asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, specifically ignoring Obama’s personal directive that Snowden should be handed over to the US. With this measure, Putin echoes Russia’s and the world’s growing weariness with America’s hegemonic carrot-and-stick strategy, and its double talk. Edward Snowden and Financial Speculation Taxes. Dean BakerTruthout, July 22, 2013 See article on original website In the last few weeks Edward Snowden has been holed in Moscow’s airport trying to negotiate terms of asylum with various countries around the world.
Thus far it doesn’t seem that Snowden has been able to find any acceptable offers. Part of the reason is that the United States government has been openly threatening governments that are considering offering asylum, warning of dire consequences. Glenn Greenwald on the Justice Dept.’s Rejection of CIA Torture Prosecutions After 3-Year Probe.