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Ramsey Clark, "Without Demands for Compensation for Wrongful Deaths/Destruction, AntiImperialist Journalism is Hypocrisy

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It is obvious the guardians of imperialist power intend to postpone the inevitable loss of economic hegemony by using America's current world overkill military dominance in a third world war. Criminal media has long been promoting fear of designated enemies Russia and China. For decades there has been massive investing in new weapons of mass destruction and nuclear weapons for 'surgical' strikes. Antiwar journalism 'exposing' the self-evident lie of 'self-defense' will not stop anything. Investors in a new world conflict know what they are doing. They knew what they were doing when they massively invested in, and joint ventured with, the Nazis to rapidly build Hitler's armed forces up to the world's number one military force.

But rather than lament the strategic preparations for an ultimate cataclysmic conflict going on in plain sight and hearing, let us realize our strength, understand that truth and sanity will prevail as we take action and bring the love of justice that exist our hearts out into the open. Against us is a relatively small number of wealth empowered desperate psychopaths of a 'kill-everything-that-moves' mind without compunction when 'necessary.'

The way to sabotage the capacity of the wealthy to make war is to not let them escape the long arm of the law for past genocides in Vietnam, Iraq and elsewhere, now legally indefensible because the justifications and excuses for past genocides have long been thoroughly documented as lies and falsehoods many of which are in themselves prosecutable crimes against peace.

When writers leave out historical context including past genocides, in reporting today's genocide, they are by this omission of documented historical context reenforcing the credibility of criminal media to make, even victims, forget the past and stay confused about today's far-fetched but well propagated false justifications for war, justifications not yet well documented as lies.

Instead of only 'protesting' ongoing wars futilely, when will professional Antiwar 'leftists' do as Martin Luther King did, and speak directly to Americans and tell them to hold themselves responsible for the crimes against humanity supervised by their many times over reelected government officials, officials controlled by the speculative investment banksters of that wealthy one percent? Antiwar commentators could say to Americans, 'before we go on with the next war, we must first pay compensation for the millions of wrongful deaths and reparations for destruction during admittedly mistaken past wars in Vietnam and Iraq. There is morally no reason not to call for the justice for victims of past genocide that will bankrupt the imperialists and make criminal investment in war unprofitable, for the earlier the bankrupting compensation is forced the more lives that will be saved.

One day thereafter, a new United States of North America will be born, and its re-birth celebrated with new flag expressing the beauty, peace and brotherhood heard in a new national anthem, the lovely old song, "America," made popular in Ramsey Clark's time by Ray Charles.

In the meantime, since it is hard to get people in the First and plundering World to call for their own prosecution, Ramsey has us looking around the Third and plundered World for voices to support, and focusing on journalism in seven nations in Latin America, which have socialist presidents (three of whom suffered prison and torture directly connected to the genocidal US foreign policy).

Yours truly, however, has faith in the eminent and most widely read independent alternate media dissident historians who are presently advising everyone to take seriously the military preparations, diplomatic threats and propaganda for war. These scholars, are keeping keep activists informed, activist, who are on the lookout for clues that would bring tactics to mind that might serve to cripple criminal corporate media seeking to postpone indefinitely the arrival of lawsuits for compensation, reparations, indemnification and other forms of restitution to victims and survivors of US-NATO genocidal crimes against humanity.
These excellent journalists have helped millions stay informed and are listed in gratitude as mentors:

Tony Carlucci of Land Destroyer
Paul Craig Roberts
Christof Lehmann of nsnbc
Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research
Pepe Escobar of Asian Times.
Finian Cunningham of Strategic Culture Foundation
Thierry Meyssan of VoltaireNet
Bruce Gagnon of Global Net Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

In conclusion, authors of seminal history books from which tens of millions have learned which side is up:
Arundhati Roy, Capitalism - A Ghost Story
Ramsey Clark - The Fire This Time - US war crimes in the Gulf
Noam Chomsky - The Year 501 - the Conquest Continues, The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Ed Herman - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media - highly documented articles
Michael Parenti - To Kill a Nation - the Attack on Yugoslavia
Joel Kovel - The Enemy of Nature:The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Mahmood Mamdani - Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda, and articles on Africa
Bill Blum - statistics on history of military interventions and covert activities
Michael Moore - film Bowling at Columbine and others
Jay janson is a regular contributor to Counter Currents, Kerala, India, and Minority Perspective Birmingham, UK; is coordinator of the Howard Zinn and Ramsey Clark founded, King Condemned US Wars International Awareness Campaign and historian of the Ramsey Clark co-founded Prosecute US Crimes Against Humanity Now, an educational and stimulus website featuring the laws pertaining and a country by country history of US crimes in nineteen countries.

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