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American Nuremberg
- The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gordon
- Length: 6 hrs
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Summary
No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government has taken after 9/11 in the name of national security. Torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or "black sites"), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror, and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed by US intelligence agencies and armed forces, no high US official has been prosecuted for these violations - which many legal observers around the world consider war crimes.
The United States helped establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes - starting with the Nuremberg tribunal following World War II, when Nazi officials were held accountable for their crimes against humanity. But the American government and legal system have consistently refused to apply these same principles to our own officials. Now Rebecca Gordon takes on the explosive task of "indicting" the officials who - in a just society - should be put on trial for war crimes. Some might dismiss this as a symbolic exercise. But what is at stake here is the very soul of the nation.
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- Clive
- 25-04-22
I don't know why they bothered
seems rather ridiculous having legislation purely as window dressing. Whilst appreciating the need for security, almost killing the suspects does not seem right.
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- Jayceon1888
- 12-08-21
The author is the narrator and she’s terrible.
I don’t understand why this woman wrote a book about war crimes. She calls the SS the SF, and Hermann Göring is now gooreng. To not know the names or organisations involved in the first and most infamous war crimes trial in history makes me seriously wonder if this is a subject the author/narrator even knows what she is talking about. She also doesn’t know what the criteria is for charges to be put before a court. Nothing new here, it sounds like if she was in office during a war she would just bend over and except whatever’s given to her without any protest. She’s also selling the lie that American police are gunning down blacks in America and she’s asking us to believe the nonsense that the police are a serious danger to blacks. She doesn’t acknowledge that the biggest threat to blacks in America are other blacks ( and it’s not even close) 44 blacks shot and killed last year and 7000 black males were killed 90+% of those killed were killed by other blacks. So in my opinion…. This books a 4/10. You won’t be missing much if you skip this book
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- Adrian Chan-Wyles Ph.D
- 05-01-22
The Author is Part of the Problem
US anti intellectualism since 1945 to present has fed into the US Cold War ideology that according to a recent academic report has seen the US military kill between 20-30 million people around the world. This author limits her enquiry to post-911 whilst manifesting the same ignorance by referring to Joseph Stalin as a 'Dictator'. In fact he was elected into his post as General Secretary on at least three occasions nationally and at least ten times locally - but it was the UK which suspended 'democracy' between 1939-1945 and gave an unelected Churchill full dictatorial powers! Churchill wanted to repeat 1918 invasion of Russia carried out by the US and UK but it was Roosevelt who refused and saved the West from an almost certain military disaster! This author is just as brainwashed by the US propaganda against the USSR as those who voted for Trump. US fascism manifests even in a book dedicated to exposing the very same issue, but I get the feeling that the author feels that US war crimes committed prior to 1991 are acceptable because they were used to oppose Socialism! In many ways a Trotskyite 'pick and choose' approach to exposing fascism!
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