Category Archives: The erosion of international law

The physical destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure in the “Gulf War”

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 21. January 2019 by

U.S. Secretary of State James Baker apparently warned Iraqi deputy prime-minister Tariq Aziz at their meeting of 9 January 1991 in Geneva, that is before the U.S. began bombarding Iraq, that Iraq would be brought back to the pre-industrial stage if it did not withdraw from Kuwait. The systematic bombing of Iraqi infrastructure and economic facilities corroborates this story.

Translating this warning into acts, the U.S. military forces targeted, disabled, destroyed or damaged major civilian infrastructure over the whole territory of Iraq, including most power plants and transmissions facilities, multipurpose dams, refineries, food-processing plants, food-and-seed storage warehouses, flour mills, a dairy-products plant, sugar refineries, a syringe factory, telecommunications systems, irrigation facilities, municipal water-treatment and sewage plants, a veterinary-vaccine manufacturing facility, civilian vehicles, roads, railways, airports, bridges and numerous industrial, commercial, educational, religious and cultural facilities. This act of barbarism by the United States awaits remedial.

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Real Americans Question 9/11

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 17. April 2017 by

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights described how the Constitution had been shredded based on assumptions about the 9/11 attacks. By then, it had also become clear that the government was actually giving aid and comfort to the enemy (violating Article 3) through arming and training terrorists. One might think it obvious that stopping such actions would be the goal of all Americans but to do so one Congress member has had to spell it out in legislation.

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Fifteen years of U.S. crimes in Afghanistan

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 8. November 2016 by

Millions of Afghans have had their lives permanently changed by the U.S. war, which marked its 15th anniversary on Oct. 7 — an unpropitious date that came and went with little attention in the media, and virtually no acknowledgment by major American politicians. More than a decade of nonstop war has pushed Afghanistan to the brink of catastrophe. And things are getting worse, not better.

At least 220,000 Afghans were killed in the first 12 years of the war, in a conservative estimate, according to a report by the Nobel Prize-winning organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

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Unlawful Resolutions of the Security Council and their Legal Consequences

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 23. July 2015 by

Resolutions of the Security Council might violate rules of dispositive law and thos of peremptory nature as well. States being convinced that the Security Council disregards peremptory norms of international law and, therefore, taking the position to the not obliged to respect these resolutions, are under the duty to inform the Security Council about their scruples. they ahve to warn the Security Council before, unilaterally, acting against the order of a resolution.

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Is media just another word for control?

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 4. April 2014 by

A recent poll asked people in Britain how many Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The answers they gave were shocking. A majority said that fewer than 10,000 had been killed. Scientific studies report that up to a million Iraqi men, women and children died in an inferno lit by the British government and its ally in Washington. That’s the equivalent of the genocide in Rwanda. And the carnage goes on. Relentlessly.

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Questions to readers

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 31. January 2014 by

10 challenging questions for readers 1. On what base did the Security Council determine in the morning of September 12, 2001, that the mass murder of the previous day was an act of “international” terrorism?2. On what evidence did the … Read more . . .

A Different Legal System for the Rich

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 26. November 2010 by

A Different Legal System for the Rich: Imagine Getting Off Easy for Hit-and-Run Because You Run a Hedge Fund By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Posted on November 24, 2010, Printed on November 25, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/148964/ Our lopsided wealth distribution makes the … Read more . . .

When the Law Goes Flat

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 10. April 2008 by

When the Law Goes Flat Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor "The Crisis Papers." July 26, 2004 http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/rule-of-law.htm   Something much more profound underlies this terrible episode [at Abu Ghraib prison]. … Read more . . .

Corruption of the Law Leads to Corrupt Government

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 10. April 2008 by

Corruption of the Law Leads to Corrupt Government – Brief Article Paul Craig Roberts June 26, 2000 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_24_16/ai_63257840 If you were a U.S. attorney general confronting possibly the biggest presidential scandal in American history and the FBI director strongly advised … Read more . . .

The Patriot Act: How it effects you

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 10. April 2008 by

The Patriot Act: How it effects you Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter Amereican Chronicle, February 15, 2008 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/52560 The Patriot Act was passed into law on October 24, 2001 by the Congress of the United States, just 45 days after the … Read more . . .

Judges can still punish acquitted defendants

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 10. April 2008 by

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus1apr01,1,1982520.story Judges can still punish acquitted defendants In refusing to consider a Wisconsin man's appeal, the Supreme Court says jurists can issue prison sentences even if the jury has cleared a defendant of certain crimes. By David G. Savage, Los … Read more . . .

In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 10. April 2008 by

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/washington/09justice.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials by Eric Lichtblau, New York Times April 9, 2008 WASHINGTON ? In 2005, federal authorities concluded that a Monsanto consultant had visited the home of an Indonesian official and, with the approval … Read more . . .