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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: August 4, 2018, 6:28 pm
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[center]Israeli Commandos 🦍 Brutally Attack Freedom
Flotilla Activists 🕊 in International Waters
🤬[/center]
August 3, 2018
Indigenous leader Larry Commodore returns to Canada after being
released from an Israeli prison
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: August 4, 2018, 8:40 pm
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[center]The Saudi-US Agenda 🐉🦕🦖👹
Behind Destroying Yemen (Pt 1/2, 2/2)[/center]
August 3, 2018
A Saudi-led airstrike has killed dozens ☠️ in
Yemen’s port city of Hodeida amid UN warnings of another
catastrophic cholera outbreak. Professor Isa Blumi of Stockholm
University and author of “[font=times new roman]Destroying
Yemen[/font],” discusses the motives and impact of the
unrelenting US-backed assault
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: August 13, 2018, 4:27 pm
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[center]As Victims' Families Fight for Justice, Secret Report
Details How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Gazan
Children[/center]
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: August 13, 2018, 7:57 pm
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World Beyond War
[center]Canada vs. the Rule of Law[/center]
By David Swanson, August 12, 2018.
I’m aware that Canada, unlike its southern neighbor in which I
live, has just recently, ever so slightly, stood up to certain
of the horrors of the Saudi government. I’m aware of the role
Canada has played, albeit imperfectly, as refuge for people
fleeing U.S. slavery and U.S. wars and general U.S.
backwardness. I’m aware of how many times through history the
United States has attacked Canada. I’m aware that just several
yards in front of me as I sit in my outdoor office (the downtown
mall of Charlottesville) a small army is gleefully creating a
police state on the anniversary of a Nazi rally at which similar
numbers of soldiers, similarly armed, stood by and watched
fascist violence last year. I agree with Robin Williams’
characterization of Canada as a nice apartment over a meth lab.
But here’s the thing. I’m a world citizen not owned by the
Pentagon. When we hold World BEYOND War’s annual global
conference in Toronto next month, Canadians will, if they are
like most people on earth, be eager to discuss Canada’s
shortcomings, not its highpoints. I’ve been reading about some
of those shortcomings, and they are not insignificant. Canada is
a standout player when it comes to environmental destruction,
and in the colonial brutality that still feeds that destruction.
The theme of our upcoming conference is the rule of law, its
uses, its abuses, and its potential as a local and global tool.
I’ve just read Tamara Starblanket’s Suffer the Little Children:
Genocide, Indigenous Nations, and the Canadian State. This is a
lawyer’s view of the Canadian history and present practice of
forcibly removing children from families. While the U.S. removal
of immigrant children from their families has been in the news
of late, it’s not been newly invented. Both settler-colonist
Canada and Nazi Germany learned from the U.S. practice of
removing Indigenous children from their families in order to
“educate” them into another culture.
A major focus for Starblanket is the legal and linguistic case
for applying the term “genocide” and the crime of genocide to
the forcible removal of Indigenous children in Canada and their
placement in so-called residential schools. It ought to be no
mystery that kidnapping is evil and criminal, just as it ought
to be no mystery that murder is evil and criminal. But
“genocide” is something different from those crimes — different
not in quantity or grandeur, but in type. Genocide is an act
“committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Such an act can
involve murder or kidnapping or both or neither. Such an act can
“physically” harm no one.
It can be any one, or more than one, of these five things:
[b]
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or
in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the
group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group.[/b]
The actions in item “e” can transfer children to a materially
better condition where they are educated in a culture that views
itself as dramatically superior, and yet genocide have been
clearly committed. That is a clear matter of international law.
It is not a claim that all acts of genocide are equally evil,
that all victims are equally tragic, that all types of genocide
can best be prevented in the same way, or any other such
unstated claim.
But the idea of removing children to a materially better
condition is a theoretical one irrelevant to the Canadian
context, at least when viewed as a whole. The Indigenous
children removed from their families in Canada were forced into
“schools” where over 40% and likely over 50% of them quickly
died, from disease, starvation, torture, r a p e, suicide, and
physical and mental abuse. Of those forced into Dachau by the
Nazis, 36% died, Buchenwald 19%, Mauthausen 58%. The Canadian
“schools” employed a list of torture techniques that could make
a CIA agent drool with envy.
A survivor, Emily Rice, is quoted by Starblanket:
[quote]” I clung to Rose until Father Jackson [img
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/>wrenched her out of my arms. I searched all over the boat for
Rose. Finally I climbed up to the wheel house and opened the
door and there was Father Jackson, on top of my sister. My
sister’s dress was pulled up and his pants were down. I was too
little to know about sex; but I now know he was r a p i n g
her. 😱 He cursed and came after me, picked up his big
black Bible and slapped me across the face and on top of the
head. I started crying hysterically and he threw me out onto the
deck. When we got to Kuper Island, my sister and I were
separated. They wouldn’t let me comfort her. Even today, all my
sisters are strangers to me.”[/quote]
Numerous top Canadian officials over the years stated clearly
that the intention of the child-removal program was to
eliminated Indigenous cultures. Placing their words and Heinrich
Himmler’s words about a similar Nazi program side-by-side finds
them virtually interchangeable. In the words of various
Canadians, the intent was to utterly remove “the Indian
problem.” I suspect, though Starblanket doesn’t discuss it, that
part of why U.S. as well as Canadian genocidists perceived an
“Indian problem” was that it was impossible to persuade
Indigenous adults to adopt the settler-colonist culture, while
numerous settlers happily adopted the Indigenous culture and
refused to give it up. In other words, fierce methods were
needed to destroy cultures precisely because of their
desirability — making the acts crimes against humanity, and
not-incidentally against the rest of the natural environment.
Proving the crime of genocide does not require the statement of
intent, but in this case, as in Nazi Germany, as in today’s
Palestine, and as in most if not all cases, there is no shortage
of expressions of genocidal intent.
[quote]There is also no shortage of genocidal results.
Indigenous cultures of Canada were devastated — in no small part
because the children subjected to the “schooling” who survived
it lacked parenting skills, as well as cultural and linguistic
knowledge — in addition to being traumatized, dehumanized, and
demonized in their own eyes.[/quote]
When the treaty to ban genocide was being drafted in 1947, at
the same time that Nazis were still being put on trial, and
while U.S. government scientists were experimenting on
Guatemalans with syphilis, Canadian government “educators” were
performing “nutritional experiments” on Indigenous children —
that is to say: starving them to death. The original draft of
the new law included the crime of cultural genocide. While this
was stripped out at the urging of Canada and the United States,
it remained in the form of item “e” above. Canada ratified the
treaty nonetheless, and despite having threatened to add
reservations to its ratification, it did no such thing. But
Canada enacted into its domestic law only items “a” and “c” —
simply omitting “b,” “d,” and “e” in the list above, despite the
legal obligation to include them. Even the United States has
included what Canada omited.
Thus, when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2008
apologized for Canada’s crimes, he didn’t indicate any awareness
that they were crimes, much less that they were the crime widely
understood to be the greatest of all: “genocide.” (At Nuremberg,
of course, the chief prosecutor characterized something else as
the greatest international crime: war.) In fact, while Harper’s
apology certainly looks like a positive step in the right
direction, it also reads a little like a Ken Burns Vietnam
documentary where “mistakes” flow from “good intentions.” Harper
says that children were tortured and killed “partly in order to
meet [Canada’s] obligation to educate Aboriginal children.”
Starblanket notes that Indigenous children today are frequently
forcibly removed to provincial child “welfare” systems, and that
as recently as 2014 (six years after the apology) St. Anne’s
School in Ontario was torturing children with electric chairs.
Of course, in the United States, Canada, and other countries,
non-Indigenous children are sometimes removed from families
believed to be abusive, and sometimes these families are abusive
indeed. But one wonders whether the tendency to remove children
rather than to aid families in caringly keeping them originated
in practices directed against Indigenous peoples, just as every
“security” technique I’m now watching in downtown
Charlottesville was first justified for use against foreign
“enemies.”
Much of the Canadian crime of genocide predates the Genocide
Convention, although consisting of numerous other recognized
crimes then extant. Current continuations of Canadian genocide
may not in all instances any longer constitute, in isolation,
genocide. But that genocide is a major element in the story of
Canada, as in the story of the United States, as in the culture
of Europe and most of its offshoots, there should be no doubt.
Bringing ourselves to say the word is not the most important
thing we can do about it. But our reluctance to say the word is
indicative of the primary problem at the root of it.
I would offer Starblanket the friendly amendment of dropping her
proposed use of the term “brainwashing” because of its origins
in the CIA-driven propaganda used to claim that U.S. pilots
engaged in biological warfare in Korea were telling lies
magically implanted in their minds. And I would urge the merging
of honest Indigenous understandings of genocide with honest
anti-imperialist understandings of war, with the combination
opposed to the academic view of genocide as something
non-Westerners do, and of war as something noble Westerners use
to combat genocide. The fact is that war and genocide are
Siamese twins. The slaughters that coated North America with
blood were both genocides and wars, and the application of
either term to them meets similar resistance. The slaughter of
Iraqis by Westerners in recent years has been both war and
genocide, and recognizing and understanding both is part of the
solution. It is helpful to the antiwar cause when Indigenous
North Americans apply their understanding to global peace.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact, which first clearly banned war globally
in 1928, as documented in The Internationalists, largely put an
end to the acceptability of new wars of conquest. The rule of
global law that may be needed for human survival will draw on
the wisdom of Indigenous, not colonial, precedents, and will
respect local rights in Canada as in Nicaragua, in Crimea as in
Kosovo. The changes in law and culture that are most needed are
those that will address root causes of suffering and prevent
violence and force. But the “forward looking” lawlessness
advocated by Barack Obama and even Andrés Manuel López Obrador
must be replaced with non-vengeful accountability equally
applied to all.
That means law for the powerful as for the weak. That means
kidnapping is kidnapping even when in line with colonial views.
Murder is murder even when committed by drone or when part of a
war. Torture and land-theft are torture and land-theft even when
committed on large scales. Prison camps are prison camps when on
actual U.S. military bases as when in Hollywood movies set in
Nazi Germany. Canadian horrors are horrific even when the Prime
Minister is a handsome liberal bowing and scraping to the same
oil companies and NATO warmongers.
Canada should seek out the best in its history. There are rich
veins there too. Canada should lead by example, add restitution
to apology, and make peace at home rather than exporting
violence in the name of its supposed “responsibility to
protect.” Protect us from such protectors!
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: August 15, 2018, 11:43 am
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[center]Yemeni Children Massacred With US-Made Bomb
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SNIPPET:
Thousands have gathered in Yemen for the funerals of the 51
people killed in a Saudi-UAE-US military alliance airstrike,
including 40 children traveling on a school bus.
Even after a Raytheon-made MK-82 bomb was found in the wreckage,
Defense Secretary James Mattis [img
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Full Story Transcript:
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: August 18, 2018, 7:52 pm
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[center]
New Information Reveals How Israel Covered-Up the Killing of
Four Boys in Gaza[/center]
Shir Hever discusses the Intercept report, revealing that the
Israeli military used an armed drone to kill four children
playing football and injure four others. The Israeli
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: January 26, 2019, 5:02 pm
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PUBLISHED January 25, 2019
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SNIPPET:
Michelle Alexander's [img width=35
height=40]
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/>controversial New York Times column links Martin Luther King
Jr.'s criticism of the Vietnam War with criticism of Israeli
apartheid. As a Jew who unquestioningly supported Israel's
policies against the Palestinians for many years, Alexander's
column deeply resonated with me. Now, for writing critical
analysis of the Israeli occupation, I am often called a
"self-hating Jew."
full article: [img
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[center]Michelle Alexander Is Right About Israel-Palestine
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: March 3, 2019, 7:54 pm
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[center]Netanyahu 👹 Indictments May Amount To Nothing,
His Real Crimes Go Unpunished
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March 2, 2019
Shir Hever discusses Netanyahu’s indictment for bribery,
malfeasance in office and breach of public trust, as only a
fraction of his crimes, his refusal to resign & his attack
against the left & the media
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2019, 11:18 am
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[quote author=knarf link=topic=3282.msg171336#msg171336
date=1552660316]
New Zealand has a reputation—unmatched beauty, adventurous,
filled with eclectic animals, people concerned about the
environment, and lots of sheep—but despite its being on the far
side of the world from the hotbeds of white nationalism, events
on Friday morning showed that no nation is safe from the
destructive power of murderous white radicals.
At least 49 people have died in an attack on two mosques in the
city of Christchurch. Dozens more were wounded or otherwise
injured. And there’s absolutely no doubt about the cause of this
sickening event. Because one of the killers livestreamed it to
Facebook, while delivering a white-power manifesto about his
hatred for “invaders.” This does not appear to be the act of a
“lone gunman,” but a coordinated, planned slaughter staged to
catch worshipers at their morning prayers. In addition to the
alleged gunman, police have detained at least two others, and
reports indicate that one of them was found with a number of
explosive devices. Even the awful total so far may not have been
close to what was intended in this racist attack.
White House 🦀 press secretary Sarah Sanders 🐲
has issued an official response, saying, “The United States
strongly condemns the attack in Christchurch.”
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/>And, of course, she provided New Zealanders with the same
assistance that has so often been extended to American victims
in similar mass-murders: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the
victims and their families.” [img
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/>statement is any hint about why this happened. Nothing about t
he
hate for Muslims that she, her party, and especially her boss
have carefully nurtured. Nothing about the global spread of
white nationalism that has seen a rise of hate crimes across
America and Europe.
This morning, Donald Trump finally followed up with a tweet
providing “My warmest sympathy and best wishes,”
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/>because apparently someone told him not to say thoughts and
prayers. But what was the tweet that Trump delivered just before
that one? While the shooting was underway, Trump was tweeting
out a link to the nationalist outlet Breitbart. Before that was
a tweet about how he was looking forward to vetoing the repeal
of his emergency declaration so he could stop “Crime, Drugs, and
Trafficking” from flowing into the United States. In other words
… keep out the invaders.
Which is no coincidence. As part of his rant, the livestreaming
shooter called Donald Trump [img
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/>a “symbol of white identity and common purpose."
In a manifesto posted to social media (deliberately not linked),
the New Zealand shooter frames his motivations around
“replacement”—the same term invoked by the Nazi marchers at
Charlottesville that Trump described as “good people.” The
shooter went on to call immigration “white genocide.”
Despite the location of the shooting, the United States is at
the center of the manifesto. The shooter spends a great deal of
his 74 pages talking about “threats to the electoral college”
and his desire to “end the melting pot” by “balkanizing” the
United States “along political, cultural and, most importantly,
racial lines.” In his rant, he repeats phrases and themes from
both Trump and American white nationalists, focusing on the
Second Amendment as a primary divide in American culture. The
shooter also throws out other familiar right-wing phrases, from
his concern that “taxation is theft” to his discussion of
“demographic change” in Texas that will lead whites to start a
civil war.
There is also a section on how to deal with immigration that
seems to come from the Trump playbook: “Few parents, regardless
of circumstance, will [be] willing to risk the lives of their
children, no matter the economic incentives. Therefore, once we
show them the risk of bringing their offspring to our soil, they
will avoid our lands.” One whole section of the manifesto is
titled “Diversity is weakness.”
The theme of dividing the U.S. along racial lines reoccurs
repeatedly in the manifesto. The shooter states that he
deliberately chose to use firearms rather than bombs
specifically to create more anger over gun violence in hopes of
spurring the fight over the Second Amendment and driving a wedge
through America.
As the BBC reports, the entire nation of New Zealand is on
heightened alert, and across Europe nations are sending extra
security to protect mosques.
The shooting itself seemed to go on for at least 10 to 15
minutes of nearly continuous gunfire. It’s currently unclear
what kind of weapon or weapons were involved. As of Friday
afternoon in Christchurch, the death toll included 41 worshipers
at the Al Noor Mosque, and eight at the Linwood Mosque several
miles to the east. Another victim died in hospital. Police had
released one of those they had questioned, but were
investigating a property at a rural location about 200 miles
south of Christchurch.
Responses around the world have mostly reflected horror and
anger … but not always aimed where you might expect. In
Australia, white nationalist Senator Fraser Anning did not blame
the attack on the shooters, but said the "real cause of
bloodshed" is immigration policy that "allowed Muslim fanatics
to migrate to New Zealand in the first place." As the New York
Times reported last August, Anning has called for a “final
solution” to Muslims. He also called for changes to immigration
laws to reflect “historic European-Christian composition” and
“values as a people.”
It’s not just Trump inspiring these attacks. But that doesn’t
mean it’s not Trump.
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EVERY REPUBLICAN and EVERY PERSON ON THIS FORUM WHO VOTED FOR
TRUMP SHARES RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS DESPICABLE ACT OF MASS
MURDER OF INNOCENT PEOPLE!
All you white RACISTS who smile inwardly at all these monstrous
acts, as your ancestors did when African Americans were LYNCHED
publicly, while your wives and children all watched with joy,
WILL NOT ESCAPE RETRIBUTION. Laugh, party and enjoy this embrace
of PURE EVIL while you can. EVIL will destroy you too.
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Re: Genocide
By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2019, 5:51 pm
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[center]Tribunal Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes
Against Humanity[/center]
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/>included the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and transnational
corporations and foreign banks doing business in the
Philippines.[/move]
BY Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
PUBLISHED March 14, 2019
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[center]President Donald Trump toasts with Philippines President
Rodrigo Duterte during a special gala celebration dinner for the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila on November 12,
2017. ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA / AFP / GETTY IMAGES[/center]
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/>PART OF THE TRUTHOUT SERIES
Human Rights and Global Wrongs[/center]
SNIPPET:
Olalia added that the decision “sends out a message loud and
clear: a people continually victimized by authoritarian and
repressive governments and exploitative entities will seek
justice wherever they can before those who are willing to give
them a fighting chance.” Finally, Olalia said, “the decision
remains ever more relevant to this day and time when the
Filipinos are still struggling to ride out the storm of tyranny,
brutality, corruption, misogyny and repression.”
Much of this tyranny, brutality and corruption has been
endorsed, whether implicitly or explicitly, by the United
States. The unholy alliance between the Philippine and U.S.
governments is long-standing. For the past 18 years, under
Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump, the United States has
continued to provide assistance to the Philippine government,
which enables it to commit war crimes and crimes against
humanity against its own people and deny them their legal right
to self-determination.
After the 9/11 attacks, Bush declared the Philippines a second
front in the war on terror, calling it “Operation Enduring
Freedom-Philippines.” The Philippine government used Bush’s
campaign as an opportunity to escalate its vicious
counterinsurgency program against Muslims and individuals and
organizations that oppose its policies.
The Philippine government labels specific people and groups as
“terrorists,” which makes them targets of the regime. The
government also engages in “red tagging” — political
vilification. These labels can lead to harassment, assault,
detention, torture and even murder. Targets are frequently human
rights activists and advocates, political opponents, community
organizers or groups struggling for national liberation.
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