wp. What an absurd theatre we have to endure right now: Amid great media hubbub, a former US president is being indicted on 36 counts. Among other things, he is alleged to have paid hush money to a sex film actress and violated the laws of campaign finance. What a scandal! For the first time in the US history, a former US president is on trial.
Many of his predecessors and their ministers were guilty of various crimes of a completely different calibre, for example e.g. Henry Kissinger: bombing of Cambodia (1969-1973), military coup against Salvador Allende in Chile (covert CIA intervention in 1973); George H.W. Bush: war against Iraq in violation of international law (1991); Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright: war in Yugoslavia in violation of international law (1999); George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice: wars in Afghanistan in violation of international law (2001), in Iraq (2003), Guantánamo detention camp in violation of human rights (since 2002); Colin Powell: lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as reason for war (2003); Hillary Clinton: CIA involvement in elimination of Muammar al-Gaddafi (2011); Barack Obama: countless assassinations with drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan (2009–2011), airstrike on Kunduz (2009) … With all these war crimes, who called for the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Hardly anyone.
Quite different is the case of Russia and Vladimir Putin: Shortly after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, one-sided reporting and denial of the preceding history led all states that concede the role of the world’s policeman to the US to the pretension that Putin was waging a war of aggression in violation of international law and that he is committing one war crime after another. The true history of this war, for which actors on the other side of the Atlantic are also responsible, must not be/is not allowed to come to light. All wars have a prehistory, only this one is supposed to have none?
In addition, there was the demand that Putin should be brought to justice subito by the ICC. This was done promptly: charges were recently brought. The ICC holds citizens accountable for the following crimes: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Aggression. Both the USA and Russia – like Israel and Sudan – have withdrawn their signatures and declared that they will not ratify the treaty. Why do you think?
Something is not right here. The media should not be harnessed for one side or the other, but should illuminate the background and report factually. Readers should remain vigilant, make up their own minds and get involved in ensuring that the truth is revealed and disseminated. •
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