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James GleickThink about this. Having started a war with no planning, the US has discovered that it can't defend its own bases in the Middle East. So it is shifting troops to hotels and other residences where they are shielded by civilians. That's a war crime.
Ben Hammondthe US president announced intention to destroy civilian infrastructure if he does not get what he wants.
Surely this ticks all the 'state terrorism' boxes.
Nazo@benh @gleick The world keeps trying to pretend that things are normal and act like they can just treat him as a normal, sane president.
Meanwhile he's quickly becoming an official dictator and consolidating power to do anything he wants. He attacks on whims and signs whatever Project 2025 puts on his desk.
Yeah, no, not a normal, sane president.
The time it takes the world to actually realize they can't keep treating this as a problem that will just go away on its own somehow is very costly
Toni Aittoniemi@gleick Talk about using human shields…
Conny Nasch@gleick it was that from the beginning, and at all levels.
adritheonly@gleick Israel got away with bombing Palestinian hospitals, claiming they were Palestinian terrorist hotspots. So...???
Dan Miller VFX@gleick After decades of accusing others of using "human shields" the US military is doing exactly that.
Templaillo Ahí
Natasha
Magnus Ahltorp@gleick And according to Israeli (and by extension all nations agreeing with them) rules, it's now the civilians' fault.
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peachfrontit's... the same war crime they accuse Hamas of doing
@peachfront @gleick Yes, and then they blamed the civilians for being there.
Toot Ωncommon - SHUT 🇺🇸 DOWN@gleick Unless you’re Hamas or Hezbollah
AnneH
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽@gleick
War crimes only happen to nations that are part of the International Criminal Court. The USA is not a signatory to the ICC. Terror states like the USA and russia don't join the ICC so they can protect terrorists.
War crimes only happen to nations that are part of the International Criminal Court. The USA is not a signatory to the ICC. Terror states like the USA and russia don't join the ICC so they can protect terrorists.
PeachMcDGotta love the lickspittle @newyorktimes headline, to wit,
'War Criminals *may be* committing #WarCrime'
#CorporateMedia #Journalism ?
@FAIR keeps the receipts
Octopi Wall Street@gleick (wearily) Yeah, yeah. Add it to the list …
Nu Modular@gleick Seems more root cause is at the top of the trickle down economics.
But how do you achieve a 100% peaceful graduation, of such Divide and Conquer? Is it possible to Multiply and Unite and counteract?
MidgePhoto@gleick
Dispersion has been usual since artillery.
Taking over the whole building is also more usual, for security.
I suspect hotels may not be fully booked just now?
Dispersion has been usual since artillery.
Taking over the whole building is also more usual, for security.
I suspect hotels may not be fully booked just now?
CynBlogger ❌👑
Maddad ☑️
disorderlyf@gleick US troops doing the same shit that was such a sticking point during the Revolution that it became one of the first amendments to the constitution. 10/10
Wm.sonAnd we soundly berated Palestininan's for doing it.
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Aria <3 
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷@gleick That'd be the same country that lambasted Iran for placing a school near a military installation ...?
Manannán mac Lir 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Israel had a word for such buildings, whether or not they had soldiers in them.
Targets.
Hope those buildings get flattened.
mobidic@gleick
The #rome Statute is the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Its purpose is to prosecute the gravest international crimes: #genocide crimes against humanity and #war crimes.
Neither the #unitedstates , nor #Russia, #israel or #china has ratified it.
No international court means no conviction under the #genevaconvention .
They do not care. They only care about #dictating thier own #truth - to confuse, reflect and controle/bully the whole world.
Mind of Frankestein@mobidic @gleick It just means it has to be done the hard way. Each signatory to the Geneva conventions has a duty and obligation to pursue war crimes in their own national courts fory any other signatory if they are unable or unwilling in their national courts. The ICC streamlines and standardizes this, but universal jurisdiction was always an option in the original Geneva conventions, to which those countries are a signatory.
Noortje Van Leeuwen@gleick and something they accused pallestinians off
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