OMNI War Watch Wednesdays, #116, March 8, 2023
Anti-Imperialism and War-CrimesTribunals.
Legal Action to Challenge U.S. Atrocities
Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
Arkansas’ Merchants of Death: Camden
Bernie Sanders’s new book, It’s Ok to Be Angry About Capitalism.
Abel Tomlinson on Zelensky
Abel to a Child
Two important Anti-imperialism & Anti-war Tribunals [As many of the WWW entries and Ukraine War anthologies argue, These warrior leaders should be tried for war crimes as soon as the UN resumes oversight in the war. –Dick]
#1:https://sanctionstribunal.org/
Taking Legal Action to Challenge U.S. Atrocities
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of sanctions regimes, particularly by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and the United States. This is due in part to the collapse of the Soviet Union, which ended the deadlock between superpowers at the Security Council. Over the past few decades, sanctions were slowly reconfigured from war time weapons into peacetime policy instruments. In order for this effort to materialize, policymakers, legal scholars, and government officials campaigned to legitimate sanctions as a lawful weapon to punish nations who refuse to submit to the United States and Europe.
The International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, and Economic Coercive Measures approaches economic coercive measures as inherently violent, designed to maintain economic inequality, continue the theft of wealth from the Global South, and preserve racial hierarchy in the international system. Such measures are structurally incapable of reform, and cannot incorporate humanitarian concerns. The Tribunal is a collective effort to build systems of accountability—rooted in global cross-movement solidarity—both within and outside of the law, to challenge the violence of imperialism through sanctions. We interrogate sanctions not from the perspective of those who enforce them, but from the perspective of those most impacted by them, namely the peoples of Asia, Africa, and South America.
#2: Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal
"Come War Profiteers, Give Account." November 10-13, 2023.
We render you, corporations obsessed with war profiteering, accountable; answerable!
- Cornel West, Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal Member
The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will hold accountable — through testimony of witnesses — U.S. weapons manufacturers who knowingly produce and sell products which attack and kill not only combatants but non-combatants as well. These manufacturers may have committed Crimes Against Humanity as well as violated U.S. Federal criminal laws. The Tribunal will hear the evidence and render a verdict.
Arkansas’s Merchants of Death: Camden
Arkansas Business Staff. “Voters Pick Lockheed Rocket System as 'Coolest Thing Made in Arkansas.”'Friday, Oct. 7, 2022 8:15 am. https://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/141720/voters-pick-lockheed-rocket-system-as-coolest-thing-made-in-arkansas “…The competition is presented by the Arkansas State Chamber, Associated Industries of Arkansas, and Arkansas Business.”
“South Arkansas home to weapon that, generals say, is turning Ukrainian war’s tide.” Defense contractors clustered in Camden’s World-War-II-era Highland Industrial Park are making weapons and equipment by Lisa Hammersly. September 18, 2022 at 8:41 a.m. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/18/defense-contractors-clustered-in-camdens-world/
Lockheed's HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) made in Camden has "been key to the turnaround in Ukraine, no doubt about it," said retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark of Little Rock in an interview last week. The former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, now strategic adviser, still has working ties to Ukraine. He had just returned from the annual Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv. HIMARS serves as "a substitute for the Ukrainian Air Force," Clark said. The missiles are satellite guided with a 200-pound explosive warhead that travels about 50 miles, he said. It's accurate within about 10 feet, military experts say….
Bernie Sanders has a new book: It’s Ok to Be Angry About Capitalism. His subject is US economics, but he inevitably links our economic system to our foreign policy. For example, “real politics” refers to the struggle against “uber-capitalism” by which a few US citizens enrich themselves. “Real politics is about understanding that the economic elites will never support policies that threaten their wealth and power” (263). And the Pentagon-Corporate-Congressional-Executive-Mainstream Media complex generates trillions of dollars of profit for those elites. “Clearly, we need revolutionary changes in how we approach the needs of our children and young adults. We cannot continue spending almost $800 billion a year for the military, provide massive tax breaks for the rich and multinational corporations, and then claim that we are too poor to adequately meet the needs of our children and their parents (272).
The US and NATO are using the war as a pretext to vilify and destabilize Russia, while they take over gas markets in Europe. In so doing, they have deceived the people of the US and Canada, committed war crimes, displaced millions of people, committed an ecocide in which whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are tortured and killed; and made bad actors like arms dealers incredibly rich. They have set the scene for World War III and revived the possibility of nuclear disaster.
From Abel Tomlinson on Zelensky & Nuclear War:
In stark contrast to the mass media cultivated image of Ukraine President Zelensky as a heroic freedom fighter, Zelensky has repeatedly called for NATO-USA to enter total war with Russia, which would mean nuclear WW3 & threatens all our lives.
Example #1: Zelensky calls for Preventive Strikes on Russia. or WW3:
Example #2: Zelensky calls for a No Fly Zone, which would likely cause nuclear WW3.
How a No Fly Zone would cause WW3
Example #3: Zelensky falsely claims Russia attacked a NATO nation, trying to drag NATO into direct war with Russia, which would mean WW3.
“Mr. Zelensky has been trying to drag the U.S. and its allies into the war, not only by seeking offensive weapons systems that could be used on Russian territory, but also with his claims that Russia had fired missiles into or over North Atlantic Treaty Organization territory.”
From Abel Tomlinson: A 12 year old girl recently overheard a conversation with her parents about the escalating conflict between the USA & Russia, and the danger of nuclear war, and asked bluntly, “Are we all going to die?” I told her we hope not and many people are working hard for peace to prevent that from happening.
Good examples of these peacemakers give us action journals like The Nuclear Resister,Nukewatch, and Ground Zero: https://www.gzcenter.org/newsletters/