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brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch
brainwavelost

Today I came across the term "Hannibal Directive". When I first saw it, I thought it was something ancient, but as I read more about it, I realized that it is not ancient.

from an 'independent' source
below from another source

Our faith in justice stems from the belief that there is a universal sense of humanity regardless of political, economic or military power. We will continue to hold onto this faith no matter how difficult it may seem today.

#War-Crimes #Hannibal-Directive

Hannibal Directive - Wikipedia

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brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch
brainwavelost

In addition, Western propaganda has come out with so many egregious #lies, that anything they claim has to be viewed critically.

Just Google “Russia” and “war crimes”— you will get no less than 130,000,000 results. Now look at this list. You will see multiple entries, using almost identical phrasing, indicating the same sources.

Now Google “UAF war crimes”. 234,000 results.

Yet, while there is almost no hard #evidence of Russian war crimes, there is more than enough of UAF crimes. 15,000 dead in Eastern Ukraine testify to that. Not to mention the well-documented shelling of civilian sites, in addition to random #atrocities such as #rape and #murder and, of course, numerous Ukrainian videos of the #mutilation and #execution of POWs.

“ #Bucha massacre”? A miniscule 1,160,000 results. Yet all the photos showed fresh bodies who apparently remained fresh for 3 weeks. Those chicken cutlets in my fridge go bad in about a week. But they don’t have white arm bands, indicating they are Russian chickens.

We must assume the laws of Nature are different for Russians. Not to mention basic psychology.

The Western #Media would have us believe the Russians are self-destructive. Massacring their own. Blowing up their own pipelines. Attacking their own nuclear power plants, shelling their own hospitals, schools, and shopping centers.

Again, this is not to say that individual Russians or Wagnerites have NOT done some bad stuff— just as American and Brit soldiers did in WWII — just not on the same scale as the UkroNazis. Don’t #believe what you read uncritically.

I didn't give the source. I wonder if the text can be googled. Yes, it can be found!
#media #ukraine #russia #google #war-crimes

clarice@diaspora.glasswings.com
clarice oncemore

Ben Roberts Smith has been found to be a bully and a murderer
"Justice Anthony Besanko found the newspapers had proven that Roberts-Smith was a war criminal who was involved in the unlawful killing and assault of unarmed Afghan prisoners." and no defamation claim is gonna change that.
SMH Quite a few murders, actually, plus the infamous shoey.
Federal Court Summary

#war-crimes #crime #SAS #Australia #Afghanistan

As it happened: Major victory in Ben Roberts-Smith case delivered to newspapers as former SAS soldier’s defamation case dismissed; some war crime, bullying allegations proven

Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko was expected to deliver his decision in the decorated former soldier’s landmark defamation case at 2.15pm in Sydney.

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clarice@diaspora.glasswings.com
clarice oncemore

"Mr Donaldson (Independent National Security Legislation Monitor) was scathing in his final report saying this should never happen again, that a person be charged, sentenced and jailed in complete secrecy."

The National Security Legislation Monitor is now conducting a review of the entire National Security Information Act at the direction of the Albanese government.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said that he welcomed the court's decision to make the sentencing remarks public and that he had previously requested they be made public.

"While it is always a matter for the court to determine what is published, court proceedings, including judgements and reasons, should be as open as possible whilst ensuring national security information is protected," he said in a statement.

"The former government agreed to an unprecedented level of secrecy in the prosecution of 'Alan Johns' resulting in wholly closed criminal proceedings.

"This is not consistent with the rule of law and open justice."
ABC
#oz #Australia #Law #WitnessJ #Section22 #war-crimes #Afghanistan #espionage #East-Timor

'Grossly reckless, driven by anger': ACT Supreme Court releases Witness J sentencing remarks 

The judge who jailed the man dubbed Witness J described him as reckless and driven by anger when he sent classified information over an insecure system.

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brainwavelost@nerdpol.ch
brainwavelost

‘Frieden schaffen mit Waffen’ ist ein Ansatz, dessen Ausführung zu mehr Gewalt, Unterdrückung oder Vernichtung führt.
#war-crimes
‘Building peace with weapons’ is an approach whose execution leads to more violence, oppression or destruction.
#Donbas: #ICC
https://en.lentafeed.com/@infodefENGLAND/4789/#fancy-2050-1
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InfoDefenseENGLISH: &quot🇺🇦👫When the ICC accuses Putin of “kidnapping” children from the Donba...&quot | LentaFeed

&quot🇺🇦👫When the ICC accuses Putin of “kidnapping” children from the Donbass, remember that these are the kids they are talking about. Former Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko about the children of Donbass: “While our childr...&quot |...

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escheche@diasp.org
Sylvia J

Ithaka the Movie

Ithaka wins #Audience #Award and #Best #Documentary

'The campaign to free #JulianAssange takes on #intimate #dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. Arguably the world’s most famous #political #prisoner, #WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a figure pretty much everybody has an opinion about; perhaps more importantly, he serves as the emblem of an #international arm wrestle over #freedom of #journalism, #government #corruption and #unpunished #war-crimes. For his #family members who face the prospect of losing him forever to the #abyss of the #US #justice #system, however, this #David-and-Goliath struggle is #personal – and, with his #health declining in a #British #maximum-security #prison and #American government #prosecutors pulling out all the stops to #extradite him, the #clock-is-ticking.'

#movie #soho #london #film #freeassange

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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

Ukraine: Shelling Residential Areas Puts Civilians at Risk

Attacks Intensify Against Government-Controlled Areas in East

Human Rights Watch

kindergarten

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/02/19/ukraine-shelling-residential-areas-puts-civilians-risk

The shelling of a school, a kindergarten, and residential areas along the line of contact in eastern Ukraine on February 17, 2022, apparently by Russia-backed armed groups, injured civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks, which injured at least four civilians, severely damaged or destroyed several homes.\
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Attacks that indiscriminately strike civilian objects violate international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and if committed willfully amount to war crimes.

Fighting has escalated in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas amid Russia’s recent, unprecedented military build-up along its border with Ukraine. The Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reported a significant increase in ceasefire violations in conflict-affected areas along the line of contact on February 17.\
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At around 9:04 a.m. on February 17, a munition hit a wall of Fairy Tale kindergarten in government-controlled Stanytsia Luhanska and landed in the recreation room. A second shell hit the playground outside.

#war #ukraine #russia #donbas #eastern-ukraine #hrw #human-rights-watch #kindergarten #human-rights #civilians #shelling #bombing #non-combatants #war-crime #war-crimes

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sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
Sylvia J

Journalists Speak Up For Julian Assange

https://speak-up-for-assange.org/journalists-speak-up-for-julian-assange/

'In 1898, French writer #ÉmileZola wrote the open letter J’accuse…! (I accuse) to warn about the #wrongful sentencing to life in prison of a military officer named Alfred Dreyfus on #espionage #charges. Zola’s stance entered #history books and still today stands for our duty to fight #miscarriages-of-justice and to hold the powerful to account. In a #democracy, #journalists can reveal #war-crimes and cases of #torture and #abuse without having to go to #jail. It is the very #role of the #press in a democracy.'

#julianassange #journalism #freepress #freespeech #wikileaks #georgeorwell #quote #dropthecharges #freeassange #humanrights #journalismisnotacrime

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sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
Sylvia J

The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time

https://scheerpost.com/2021/10/28/hedges-the-most-important-battle-for-press-freedom-in-our-time/

'He exposed the #truth. He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the #endemic #illegality, #corruption and #mendacity that defines the #global #ruling #elite. And for these #truths alone he is guilty.'

"A #society that #prohibits the capacity to #speak in #truth #extinguishes the capacity to #live in #justice. The battle for #Assange’s #liberty has always been much more than the #persecution of a #publisher."

#chrishedges #battle #press #freedom #julianassange #cia #collateral-damage #drone-wars #obama #gwbush #iraq #war #terrorism #yemen #war-crimes #prison #sams #extradition #media #vault7 #civil-rights #freeassange #freespeech #freepress #journalismisnotacrime #weareallassange

Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time

Julian Assange hearings in London are hugely important. A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.

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sylviaj@joindiaspora.com
Sylvia J

Register for the Belmarsh Tribunal: Free Julian Assange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7rBuTphpcM
https://act.progressive.international/belmarsh-tribunal/

The #HighCourt will hear the #appeal on #October27-28 in #London, which will decide #JulianAssange's immediate fate. He remains #imprisoned in #maximum #security #Belmarsh #prison for two and a half years, despite #winning his #extradition #battle in the UK’s #DistrictCourt last January. For now all eyes must be focused on the appeal at the High Court at the end of October. #Public #pressure is the only thing that can end the deliberate, punitive #incarceration of #Assange. This is, when all is said and done, the most #important #press #freedom #case of the 21st century.

Just a few days before the extradition #hearing in Julian’s case (October 27-28) and inspired by the #Russell-Sartre #Tribunal that put the US government’s #war-crimes in #Vietnam on trial, we are bringing together leading #lawyers, #politicians and #journalists to put the US government on trial for its crimes in the 21st century — from #atrocities in #Iraq, to #torture in #GuantánamoBay, and the country’s huge #surveillance program.
Talking about the Russell-Sartre Tribunal, #Russel said that the tribunal “represented no state power; it had no capacity to sentence the accused”. But he added something important: “I believe that these apparent limitations are, in fact, #virtues. We are free to conduct a solemn and #historic #investigation, presented to the #conscience of #mankind”.
You are already part of the conscience of #humankind. Become part of the #struggle to #free Julian Assange and #protect other #whistleblowers and #journalists. Protect what is #right and #fight what is so obviously wrong.
Members of the Belmarsh Tribunal, named after the prison where Assange has been imprisoned for more than two years, include #DanielEllsberg, #YanisVaroufakis, #RafaelCorrea, #StefaniaMaurizi, #RenataÁvila, #JeremyCorbyn, #KenLoach, #TariqAli, #SelayGhaffar and many others.

#SrećkoHorvat, cabinet member of the #Progressive #International and one of the founders of the #BelmarshTribunal, said:
“After the #revelations about the #murderous #CIA #plans to #kill a #publisher and #journalist on #British soil, not only the current #US #government but also the #UK government must be held responsible for still keeping Assange in #prison.The #Biden administration should #dropthecharges against Assange and the UK government should #free him immediately and end the #suffering and #torture of a #courageous #man who has #committed #no #crime. In a #society in which telling the #truth becomes a crime, we are all #accomplices of crime as long as Assange is in prison.”

#join #mobilize #organize

#Organized by #TheProgressiveInternational the tribunal will hold its first #physical #proceedings in #London at the #ConvocationHall, #ChurchHouse, #Westminster at 3pm BST, #22October. #register #attend-online

“If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." - Julian Assange.

#freejulianassange #diem25 #noextradition #weareallassange #23october-marchforassange

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