Wall Street Ready for War

ministry of tokyo VIDEO NATO Bombing of Serbia 1999 Bombardovanje Srbije 1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1jJHqBc18 USA WAR CRIMES YUGOSLAVIA http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/politics/31-10-2016/136024-usa_yugoslavia-0/ http://archive.is/k5C9q News » Politics Russian FM Lavrov reminds USA of war crimes in Yugoslavia 31.10.2016 | Source: Pravda.Ru Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reminded the United States of its bombings of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, when the US did not seem to care at all for civilian casualties. Today, the US tries to accuse Russia of war crimes in Syria, Lavrov said in an interview for Rossiya 1 TV channel for a documentary about Russian politician Yevgeny Primakov. "When a true patriot, an experienced politician, an outstanding statesman, a man with great intuition, with an encyclopedic education - when he learned about the bombings of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by the United States, he did not see any possibility to continue "business as usual" with the USA. His plane made a U-turn in midair, and that U-turn meant that Russia could not but defend its truth in cooperation with other powers to achieve equal relations and mutually advantageous arrangements - this is the purpose that Russia has," Sergei Lavrov said. "The aggression against Yugoslavia was, of course, an act of aggression, and it was also the first armed attack on a sovereign state in Europe since 1945. If we talk about it now against the background of what is happening around Syria, our Western partners, especially American and British ones, have already reached the level of public threats in their hysteria, using words such as "barbaric," "war crimes,"  said Sergey Lavrov. "The aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was fraught with attacks on a huge number of civilian targets, including, among other things, television of Serbia, bridges, on which civilian passenger trains were traveling and a lot more. Thousands were killed, including several hundreds of children, a quarter of a million of refugees, whom no one has ever thought of since then. If Russia, in Primakov's face, would not have reacted the way that he had reacted to such a blatant violation of international law, we wouldn't have probably forgiven that to ourselves for a long time, and our history would have had another very unpleasant page," the Russian Foreign Minister said. http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/politics/31-10-2016/136024-usa_yugoslavia-0/ http://archive.is/k5C9q   SYRIA US capitalist war criminals who have committed WWII war crimes and a regular series of war crimes since WWII — war criminals that have set armed terrorists on Syria, in a planned proxy war on the Syrian nation (planned by capitalists as early as 2006) — predictably attempt to seize what does not belong to US-Anglo and allied capitalist thieves (including despicable Gulf Arab conspirators such as Qatar):  the besieged state of Syria. A warmonger is about to be crowned head of the amoral, greedy and bloodthirsty capitalist ruled American empire: Wall Street's equally greedy and bloodthirsty candidate, Hillary Clinton. On election of this political psychopath, the US taxpayer can expect to be further indebted to the bankers that finance the American capitalist oligarchy's wars at taxpayer expense, while securing private profits for private interest, of course. First port of call of the American capitalist soon to be anointed Angel of Death will no doubt be capitalist open war on Syria and Syria's staunch ally, Russia, much to the delight of Israel, the Gulf Arabs, allied British capitalists and that of Europe. Hillary Clinton, Wall Street and US intelligence backed unindicted criminal, has proven her most-eager-to-commit-aggression value to capitalist warmongers in her role as former US Secretary of State, who carried out her behind-the-scenes masters' agendas, bringing about the destruction of the prosperous and functioning Libyan state, that has since been plunged into civil war due to US-Anglo-French intervention and allied capitalist backing. An act of aggression that has since produced instability in the wider region, the rise of the ISIS Islamic extremists that are capitalist proxies whose barbarity has been unleashed on the regional peoples by Western and Gulf Arab capitalism. Hillary Clinton's proven act of aggression is responsible for Libya's weaponry being funnelled to the capitalist proxy war that has been illegally waged by Western and Gulf Arab capitalism in Syria. Libya has been ravaged by civil war as result aggression mounted by Western and allied capitalism, aiming to gain control of Libya, to pillage Libya of resources, to render Libya easy pickings otherwise for capitalist exploitation, and to render Libya another vassal in the Western capitalist dominated (and Arab money-lending and mosque-building) collection of destroyed, foreign vassal states. The representatives of the American and Western oligarchy and their various propagandists portray the image of altruistic concern for welfare of those that are targets of their greed and aggression, upon whom they have set armed terrorists to do the dirty work of forcing Western backed regime change in a sovereign nation. The capitalist warmonger's propaganda and public opinion shaping machinery is especially adept at presenting itself concerned for the welfare of women (perversely, capitalism's #1 political and social exploitation subject), and this feigned 'concern' cynically assumed by witting, and unwitting, agents of capitalist greed and destruction is echoed by the many capitalist-sponsored and capitalist-coached, Western capitalist serving non-government 'civil society' organisations, that are the unwitting servants of their capitalist sponsors true motives and true agenda. But we know from history that neither Hillary Clinton nor her Clinton administration US Secretary of State predecessor, Madeleine Albright, cared much (if at all), despite their gender and 'feminist' in-charge credentials, for the well-being, the rights or the very lives of the multitudes of women and children targeted by Albright and Clinton in a series of countries marked for capitalist destruction and appropriation.  Nations whose economies were destroyed by crippling and enduring sanctions despite the cost to lives of tens of thousands of children; women and children who suffered deprivation, grotesque and barbaric violence, the nightmare of life among the ruins of destroyed infrastructure, civil war, sectarian war, and disfigurement and death, delivered by the American and allied capitalist war machinery that was piloted in the past by these Wall Street and White House 'feminist' icons, who, between them, delivered the aforementioned sanctions,  proxy terrorists, depleted uranium bombs, graffiti bombs, regime change, civil war, lifelong injury, deaths, destruction, generational debt, and oppression by American-Anglo and allied capitalism satiating its drive toward capitalist pillage and capitalist hegemony, that is pursued with impunity in the guise of  ensuring 'national security', mounting 'war on terrorism', altruistically providing 'humanitarian' intervention, or spreading capitalist 'democracy' at gunpoint — all of which is made possible by the lying Western media and intelligentsia that is itself responsible for the torture and murder of millions across the globe by US-Anglo and allied capitalism, since 1945. Wall Street, US mainstream media, Western media and the capitalist-sponsored Western intelligentsia strongly lend their support to appointment of the political actress, known as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who is coached (and urged) in the 'right' direction, as she turns on her feminine charms or presidential contender female icon toughness for Wall Street and world media, like a hired whore, performing at the behest of Wall Street revolving-door advisers whose true role in government affairs is to promote the private interests that are quietly  being represented.  Hillary Clinton has vowed to obliterate Iran should the American electorate be foolish enough to elect this cackling Wall Street complicit warmonger as head of state, thus she has already affirmed her readiness to do the bidding of the interests that bankroll her bid for presidency. Notwithstanding what is known of Hillary Clinton's form, the corrupt, capitalist-controlled propagandist Western media (the vast majority of which is backing the cackling Wall Street Witch), the corrupt capitalist-sponsored Western intelligentsia that shills for its capitalist sponsors in the media as well as social media (cleverly employing yet another avenue to broadcast its capitalist master's voice), and an assortment of high profile Hollywood celebrities, continue, nonetheless, to sing the praises of Hillary Clinton's 'feminine' potential, imploring the uninformed and indoctrinated (PR-man propaganda primed, manufactured 'feminist ambitions' receptive) cynically manipulated public, to vote for a future president based on the lure of gender preference versus capacity and form (which is surely the antithesis of 'feminism' and the antithesis of respect for the intelligence of the voting public). These same capitalist-controlled propaganda and consent manufacturing arms of capitalism (media, intelligentsia, social media, NGO, and 'grass-roots' networks and actors, and various political shills) otherwise busy themselves creating smokescreens for Hillary Clinton's many crimes and misdemeanours, while not engaged in deploying smear attacks against all too predictable deflection and distraction serving targets, to deflect from the patent unsuitability of the capitalist oligarchy's aggressive shill-in-waiting to be crowned 'Miss Wall Street President' by the unseen controllers of the American Capitalist Empire,  and their enabling media tools  and other capitalist accomplices, under what is oligarchic rule and control, passed off by ad-men as American 'democracy'. Stand by for Wall Street's planned war on Syria and on Russia, which is already under capitalist war criminal US and, capitalist war criminal EU, sanctions.

Iraq Invasion 2003 - Aussies US-Anglo Capitalist Puppets

US-ANGLO CAPITALIST AUSSIE PUPPETS IRAQ INVASION 2003 CHILCOT REPORT WAR CRIMINALS https://youtu.be/HP55OMZbM6Y Press TV (Mahi Ramakrishnan) - LINK | Source "The judges in the verdict said that that the United States, under the leadership of Bush, forged documents to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." "“Bush and Blair are found guilty under the same law that applied to the Nazis after the end of the World War II. So, they are international (war) criminals guilty of Nuremberg crimes against peace; and they should be prosecuted by any state in the world that gets a hold of them." Press TV (Mahi Ramakrishnan) LINK | Source COMMENT US Capitalist Empire has taken steps IN ADVANCE to ensure that no country dare prosecute the AMERICAN-ANGLO CAPITALIST WAR CRIMINALS (or their associates), as US Capitalist Empire has given itself permission to wage war against those that seek to bring US CAPITALIST WAR CRIMINALS to justice. Hague Invasion Act Human Rights Watch | 2002  http://archive.is/OXr7k "A new law supposedly protecting U.S. servicemembers from the International Criminal Court shows that the Bush administration will stop at nothing in its campaign against the court. U.S. President George Bush today signed into law the American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, which is intended to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a U.S.-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague. This provision, dubbed the "Hague invasion clause," has caused a strong reaction from U.S. allies around the world, particularly in the Netherlands.  In addition, the law provides for the withdrawal of U.S. military assistance from countries ratifying the ICC treaty, and restricts U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping unless the United States obtains immunity from prosecution. At the same time, these provisions can be waived by the president on "national interest" grounds.  ... The law is part of a multi-pronged U.S. effort against the International Criminal Court. On May 6, in an unprecedented move, the Bush administration announced it was "renouncing" U.S. signature on the treaty. " Human Rights Watch | 2002  http://archive.is/OXr7k Press TV Thu Jul 7, 2016 6:2AM A former Australian army chief has warned Canberra against “blindly” following the United States in the American military adventures, a day after a long-awaited inquiry into Britain’s role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq blamed the UK for rushing to war. “We... need to be careful of blindly going along with our senior strategic partners,” Peter Leahy, who was the chief of the Australian army from 2002 to 2008, said in an apparent reference to the US. “I think as we look at other issues that are afoot at the moment, there are some thoughts to be given there — what decisions are we making?” he said, speaking on Thursday. The former army chief, who is now a professor at Canberra University’s National Security Institute, added that “Frankly, some of the decisions the United States, our senior partner in our strategic alliance, have [sic] made over the last 20 or 30 years have been a bit crook.” The Chilcot Inquiry, established in 2009 to investigate Britain’s most controversial military engagement since the end of the Second World War, published its 6,000-page report in 12 volumes on Wednesday, slamming former British Prime Minister Tony Blair over support for former US President George W. Bush in the 2003 Iraq war. At the time, Blair presented the case for war with “a certainty which was not justified” based on “flawed” intelligence about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which was not challenged as it should have been, the report concluded. Blair’s government sent 120,000 members of the British armed forces and civilians to Iraq, proving its role as Bush’s chief military ally.  A total of 179 British personnel were killed in the war. In 2003, Australia also sent 2,000 troops to support the US and British forces in the invasion of Iraq, whose legal basis, according to the Chilcot Inquiry, was “far from satisfactory.” According to Leahy, a review of the Australian involvement in the Iraq war released in 2004 also showed that Canberra relied on flawed advice in joining its senior allies. “Let’s have a discussion, not an inquiry, around our relationship with the United States, how we decide to go to war and very importantly how we decide every day when we are at war to stay at war,” Leahy said. Meanwhile, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who at the time of the Iraq invasion was part of then-Prime Minister John Howard’s conservative government, defended the decision made by the government to send troops to Iraq, saying it was “based on… the best information that we had at the time.” “The government takes responsibility for all decisions that a government makes and we take responsibility for this one,” she further said, describing the decision as “a bipartisan position up to a point.” Blair himself has defended the British decision to follow in the US’s footsteps into Iraq following the publication of the Chilcot report. According to the Australian constitution, the government does not require a permission from the country’s parliament to declare war. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/07/07/473989/Australia-Peter-Leahy-Iraq-War-US-Chilcot-Inquiry 2011 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia War Crimes Tribunal BUSH & BLAIR WAR CRIMINALS tribunal found former US President George W Bush former British PM Tony Blair GUILTY of crimes against humanity LINK | here WikiLeaks | Assange [RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE & 'NEW TAB'] WikiLeaks | Assange FCO & MI6 BRITISH INTELLIGENCE Source | @WikiLeaks FREE ASSANGE SAVE JULIAN ASSANGE Saddam Hussein Iraq government described as: "AN OBSTACLE TO EVERY SINGLE WESTERN OBJECTIVE IN THE MIDDLE EAST" "OUR GOAL IS REGIME CHANGE" "WE HAVE HAD SUCH GOALS BEFORE. WE SUCCEEDED IN THE SOVIET UNION, IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA AND IN BELGRADE." "I ASSUME [REGIME CHANGE] REMAINS OUR GOAL IN PLACES LIKE BURMA, IRAN, LIBYA, ZIMBABWE AND LIBERIA." "LAWYERS AND PEACENIKS SHOULD NOT PREVENT US FROM SAYING WHAT WE REALLY WANT IN IRAQ" "IF WE WERE TO BUILD UP THE KURDS AND THE SHIA AS PROXIES, WHAT ASSURANCES WOULD WE HAVE TO GIVE THEM THAT WE WOULD NOT LET THEM DOWN YET AGAIN?" "ALL OF THESE ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAN LEGALITY ..." "WE CAN LOOK FOR A LEGAL BASIS ONCE WE HAVE DECIDED WHAT TO DO, AS WE DID IN KOSOVO." "WE KNOW BUSH, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WILL BE BOTH INTELLIGENT AND RESPONSIBLE IF WE CAN HELP THE AMERICANS COME UP WITH A PERSUASIVE PLAN TO OUST THE WORLDS WORST TYRANT, THEN WE SHOULD DO SO. AND IF THE BEST MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE ORGANS OF LONDON AND WASHINGTON FAIL TO PRODUCE A CONVINCING PLAN, THEN WE STICK TO CONTAINMENT." SIGNED: JOHN SAWERS SENT BY CAIRO ON 21-02-2002 09:52 RECEIVED BY NO 10 ON 21-02-2002 22:07 http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/210163/2002-02-21-teleletter-sawers-to-jay-iraq-policy.pdf John Sawers descendant of Norman invaders (12th C.) former British Diplomat former British Senior Civil Servant Foreign & Commonwealth Office 1997 MI6 agent in Yemen & Syria Political Officer, Damascus 1982 FCO Desk Officer, European Union Dept. 1984 Private Sec. to Minister of State 1986 FCO, Pretoria, Cape Town, South Africa 1988-1991 Head of European Union Presidency Planning Unit 1991 Principal Private Secretary to Douglas Hurd 1993:     - Bosnia War     - Middle East war     - European Union debate International Fellow at Harvard University, USA, 1995-1998 British Embassy, Washington DC, headed Foreign & Defence Policy Team Foreign Affairs Adviser to PM Tony Blair 1999-2001     - Kosovo War     - Northern Ireland peace process     - Iraq sanctions policy Ambassador to Egypt 2001 - 2003 British Special Representatives to Baghdad (3 mths) FCO, Director Gen. for Political Affairs 2003 wide scope, negotiations with:   G8, EU and the UN closely involved re policy on: Iran Iraq Afghanistan Balkans British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 2007-2009 former Chief of MI6, Secret Intelligence Service 2009-2014 governor of the Ditchley Foundation, Anglo-US capitalist relations promo Ditchley Foundation est. 1958 by Sir David Wills, descendant of the tobacco importing family, W. D. & H. O. Wills (Bristol) W.D. & H.O. Wills, est. 1786 one of founding companies of:   Imperial Tobacco on merger of W.D. & H.O. Wills & x7 other tobacco companies key:  William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke businessman, Liberal politician JOHN SAWERS, MI6 WikiLeaks | Assange Chilcot Report Rigging Plan Source | @WikiLeaks COMMENT Julie Bishop defending the decision to enter into ILLEGAL WAR ON IRAQ, on a CONCOCTED basis, for the enrichment of US-ANGLO CAPITALISTS who destroyed and robbed the country, is appalling. But what else can the government do?  It's not like they're going to admit to being war criminals and admit liability, are they?  LOL It also sounds like Australia might want to address the issue of the constitution that permits a declaration of war without parliamentary backing. SAVE JULIAN ASSANGE WikiLeaks | Assange @WikiLeaks AUSSIE SUPPORTER DICK SMITH | AUDIO Dick Smith Takes On Sweden & US Empire LINK | here

Free Political Prisoner - Julian Assange

ꕤ SUPPORT https://justice4assange.com/ FREE JOURNALIST JULIAN ASSANGE [CLICK image to ENLARGE] [CLICK image to ENLARGE] USA & Allies Use of paramilitary death squads Torture of Iraqis Indiscriminate killing of civilians Deliberate civilians killings Large-scale, unreported killing of civilians (eg machine-gunning bus) 2007 US Army helicopter gunning civilians (incl. press) Secret drone strikes US special ops offensive ops in Pakistan Cover-up of massacres US govt systemic wrongdoing & wide-scale deception Violation of INTERNATIONAL LAW Extraordinary rendition (kidnappings & illegal transfers) Illegal torture of detainees US threatening Italian govt to influence court case re CIA kidnapping CIA Black Sites Extra-judicial killings by 'black' unit Afghanistan (kills incl. civilians) Violation of 1949 UN Convention - spying on leadership of United Nations GMOs proposed military-style trade war v. European countries opposing GMOs US diplomats working directly for GM companies (eg Monsanto) NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST --------------------------------------------------------------- Source Vincent Warren Director, Centre for Constitutional Rights - 1 Vincent Warren Director, Centre for Constitutional Rights - 2 Vincent Warren Director, Centre for Constitutional Rights - 3 Ryan Gallagher Link | Slate --------------------------------------------------------------- ꕤ

No Nuremberg for Anglo-American War Criminals

ꕤ Article SOURCE as indicated http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433878/Tony-Blair-Bush-Iraq-war- Bush, Blair plotted Iraq war 1 year before invasion had started: White House memo Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:54AM A damning White House memo has revealed details of the so-called “deal in blood” forged by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush over the Iraq war. The document, titled “Secret... Memorandum for the President”, was sent by then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell to President Bush on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas, Britain’s Daily Mail reported on Sunday. The sensational memo revealed that Blair had agreed to support the war a year before the invasion even started, while publicly the British prime minister was working to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis. The document also disclosed that Blair agreed to act as a spin doctor for Bush and convince a skeptical public that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction, which actually did not exist. In response, Bush would flatter Blair and give the impression that London was not Washington’s poodle but an equal partner in the “special relationship.” Powell told Bush that Blair “will be with us” on the Iraq war, and assured the president that “"the UK will follow our lead in the Middle East."  In November 2002, US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell applaud at a summit in Prague. Between them is National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, to their right, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. (Reuters photo) Another sensational memo revealed how Bush used “spies” in the British Labour Party to help him to influence public opinion in the United Kingdom in favor of the Iraq war. Both documents were obtained and published by The Mail on Sunday. They are part of a number of classified emails stored on the private server of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton which courts have forced her to reveal. Blair has always denied the claim that he and Bush signed a deal “in blood” at Crawford to launch a war against Iraq that began on March 20, 2003, that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. The Powell memo, however, showed how Blair and Bush secretly prepared the Iraq war plot behind closed doors at Crawford. Powell told Bush: “He will present to you the strategic, tactical and public affairs lines that he believes will strengthen global support for our common cause.” The top US diplomatic official added that the UK premier has the presentational skills to “make a credible public case on current Iraqi threats to international peace.” Powell wrote that Blair will “stick with us on the big issues” but he needs to show the British public that “Britain and America are truly equal partners in the special relationship.”  In March 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding WMDs; but no such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq. More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion, and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored. The US war in Iraq cost American taxpayers $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, according to a study called Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/18/433878/Tony-Blair-Bush-Iraq-war- http://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-war-crimes-tribunal-bush-convicted-in-absentia-it-s-official-george-w-bush-is-a-war-criminal/30839 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. Bush Convicted in Absentia: IT’S OFFICIAL – George W Bush is a war criminal. By Yvonne Ridley Global Research, May 14, 2012 Foreign Policy Journal 14 May 2012 EXTRACT In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record. The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. FULL AT SOURCE http://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-war-crimes-tribunal-bush-convicted-in-absentia-it-s-official-george-w-bush-is-a-war-criminal/30839 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128105712109215.html Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty A war crimes tribunal in Malaysia offers a devastating critique of international criminal law institutions today. 28 Nov 2011 13:37 GMT Richard Falk Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies. He is also former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. EXTRACTS In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that found George W Bush and Tony Blair guilty of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and genocide as a result of their roles in the Iraq War. The proceedings took place over a four-day period from November 19-22, and included an opportunity for court-appointed defense counsel to offer the tribunal arguments and evidence on behalf of the absent defendants. They had been invited to offer their own defense or send a representative, but declined to do so. ... Universal jurisdiction The KLWCT did not occur entirely in a jurisprudential vacuum. It has long been acknowledged that domestic criminal courts can exercise universal jurisdiction for crimes of state wherever these may occur, although usually only if the accused individuals are physically present in the court. The underlying legal theory is based on the recognition of the limited capacity of international criminal trials to impose accountability in a manner that is not entirely dictated by geopolitical priorities and reflective of a logic of impunity. In this regard, universal jurisdiction has the potential to treat equals equally, and is very threatening to the Kissingers and Rumsfelds of this world, who have curtailed their travel schedules. The United States and Israel have used their diplomatic leverage to roll back universal jurisdiction authority in Europe, especially in the United Kingdom and Belgium. "War must be outlawed. That will have to be our struggle for now. We must struggle for justice and freedom from oppression, from economic hegemony. But we must remove the threat of war first. With this sword of Damocles hanging over our heads we can never succeed in advancing the interests of our countries.  War must therefore be made illegal. The enforcement of this must be by multilateral forces under the control of the United Nations. No single nation should be allowed to police the world, least of all to decide what action to take, [and] when." Mahathir Mohamed anti-war speech of February 24, 2003 ... In his 2007 statement, Mahathir promised that a future KLWCT would not, in his words, be "like the 'kangaroo court' that tried Saddam". Truly, the courtroom proceedings against Saddam Hussein was a sham trial excluding much relevant evidence, disallowing any meaningful defense, and culminating in a grotesque and discrediting execution.  ... FULL AT SOURCE http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128105712109215.html ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT When you don't know what's going on, the conviction for war crimes in absentia sounds vaguely amusing -- as if the Malaysians were off their heads and had gone rogue in deciding to convict such fine and upstanding Americans (and Blair) for war crimes. It's only down the track that you learn that, yes, there really is grounds for such an outlandish-sounding conviction, as there is a convention against torture and against waging wars of aggression. Yes, people were tortured and, yes, the Iraq invasion was illegal and was launched on false pretexts (WMDs). So these government representatives are totally bent and criminal in their actions. And, as time progresses, more information comes out supporting that ugly fact.  The latest is just more confirmation that these people and their governments really are criminals. Germans were tried by the victors at Nuremberg and hanged for war crimes. But there won't be any such trials for the Anglo-American war criminals. ________________ Wonder if those Clinton e-mails were meant to come out, to maybe influence elections.  As in, Bush is Republican and Clinton is Democrat.  So creating a situation (private server) where this information would be released could maybe have been deliberate to advantage the Democrats, I'm thinking. Of course, I could be completely wrong.  lol ꕤ

'Hague Invasion Act' 2002 & USA War Criminals

U.S.: 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law White House August 4, 2002 (New York) - A new law supposedly protecting U.S. servicemembers from the International Criminal Court shows that the Bush administration will stop at nothing in its campaign against the court.   U.S. President George Bush today signed into law the American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, which is intended to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a U.S.-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague. This provision, dubbed the "Hague invasion clause," has caused a strong reaction from U.S. allies around the world, particularly in the Netherlands.     In addition, the law provides for the withdrawal of U.S. military assistance from countries ratifying the ICC treaty, and restricts U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping unless the United States obtains immunity from prosecution. At the same time, these provisions can be waived by the president on "national interest" grounds.     "The states that have ratified this treaty are trying to strengthen the rule of law," said Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch. "The Bush administration is trying to punish them for that."     Dicker pointed out that many of the ICC's biggest supporters are fragile democracies and countries emerging from human rights crises, such as Sierra Leone, Argentina and Fiji.     The law is part of a multi-pronged U.S. effort against the International Criminal Court. On May 6, in an unprecedented move, the Bush administration announced it was "renouncing" U.S. signature on the treaty. In June, the administration vetoed continuation of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Bosnia in an effort to obtain permanent immunity for U.N. peacekeepers. In July, U.S. officials launched a campaign around the world to obtain bilateral agreements that would grant immunity for Americans from the court's authority. Yesterday, Washington announced that it obtained such an agreement from Romania.     However, another provision of the bill allows the United States to assist international efforts to bring to justice those accused of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity - including efforts by the ICC.     "The administration never misses an opportunity to gratuitously antagonize its allies on the ICC," said Dicker. "But it's also true that the new law has more loopholes than a block of Swiss cheese."   Dicker said the law gives the administration discretion to override ASPA's noxious effects on a case-by-case basis. Washington may try to use this to strong-arm additional concessions from the states that support the court, but Dicker urged states supporting the ICC "not to fall into the U.S. trap: the law does not require any punitive measures."     Human Rights Watch believes the International Criminal Court has the potential to be the most important human rights institution created in 50 years, and urged regional groups of states, such as the European Union, to condemn the new law and resist Washington's attempts to obtain bilateral exemption arrangements.     The law formed part of the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States. http://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law COMMENT Well, here's Human Rights Watch on the Hague Invasion Act 2002: "the new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a US-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague." That's just mind-blowing. The law was passed during the time of George W Bush, President 2001-2009.  ............................................ Bush also happens have been convicted, in absentia, as a war criminal: Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal. Bush Convicted in Absentia: IT’S OFFICIAL – George W Bush is a war criminal. By Yvonne Ridley Global Research, May 14, 2012 Foreign Policy Journal 14 May 2012 In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record. The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. EXTRACT ONLY - FULL @ SOURCE http://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-war-crimes-tribunal-bush-convicted-in-absentia-it-s-official-george-w-bush-is-a-war-criminal/30839 It puts a new kind of spin on everything.