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Regretting Western Intervention in the Middle East
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/20/regretting-western-intervention-in-the-middle-east/
“Wars for oil, control and strategic dominance were cloaked in the language of democracy” — Ann Wright delivers an argument at the Cambridge Union Debates. Here is a video of the entire debate; author’s segment 2:39 — 14:16. By Ann…
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Today in Labor History May 12, 1940: Edgar Lion, a 20-year-old Austrian Jewish student at the University of Edinburgh, was arrested by British police and shipped off to the Isle of Man with thousands of other Jewish detainees. The British government locked them all up in hotels surrounded by barbed wire. He was later deported to Canada, where he was interned with 2,300 other Jewish refugees in camps alongside German Nazis and forced to perform brutal physical labor for virtually no pay. “There were real Nazis interned with us! They were Nazis who happened to be caught by the war in Great Britain. They were bragging, and they kept telling us, ‘wait till Hitler wins the war, we’ll cut all your throats!’”
As appalling as the Trump administration is, with its arrests, deportations, and use of brutal concentration camps for innocent immigrants, as well as many legal residents and citizens, it is a misrepresentation of history to suggest that this sort of behavior is similar only to that of the Nazis, and is somehow extraordinary for modern democracies like the U.S., Britain and Canada. Concentration Camps, with forced labor, brutal living conditions, and sometimes torture and violence against inmates were operated by numerous so-called democratic Western nations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and even today. Australia used them during both World Wars, and currently runs some for refugees on Nauru and Manus Islands. During both World Wars, Canada imprisoned 8,579 male "aliens of enemy nationality" in concentration camps with forced labor, including thousands of Jews. They also interned Japanese residents. Denmark, Sweden and Finland also had concentration camps. French concentration camps, along with the torture and starvation inflicted on their inmates, and the casualties from its war of conquest in Algeria, resulted in up to 1 million deaths. And then there were thousands of Jews who were imprisoned in concentration camps under the Vichy government, most ultimately deported to Germany, where they were executed. Even Germany’s legacy of concentration camps predates Hitler, with deadly camps utilized during the Herero and Namaqua genocide they committed in Africa (1904-1908). In addition to their internment of Jews during World War II, Britain also ran offshore and land-based gulags in Ireland in the 1920s, which housed over 500 men, under brutal conditions, without charge or trial. They also ran concentration camps on the Isle of Man during both world wars.
The U.S., in particular, has a long, sordid history of using concentration camps that precede the ones they used during World War II to imprison Japanese-Americans. The first document U.S. concentration camps used for a specific ethnic group occurred in 1838, when President Van Buren imprisoned Cherokee in camps at Ross's Landing (Chattanooga, Tennessee), Fort Payne, Alabama, and Fort Cass (Charleston, Tennessee). Many died in these camps from disease and hunger. In 1862, Minnesota executed 38 Dakota warriors in the largest single-day mass execution in U.S. history. President Lincoln pardoned another 361, but placed them in a concentration camp. And in the following winter, another 1600 Dakota men, women and children were forced into other concentration camps. Up to 300 died from disease in these camps. Thousands of other indigenous people were forced into U.S. concentration camps throughout the 1800s and early 1900s. The U.S. also operated brutal concentration camps for prisoners and civilians during its war on the Philippines in 1901. During the 1950s-1960s, the U.S. maintained concentration camps for political dissidents, primarily communists, but officially never used them. More recently, there are the examples of Abu Ghraib, in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Under Reagan, there were plans to imprison thousands of Central American Solidarity activists in concentration camps. And today, Trump continues to talk about sending “homegrowns” to offshore gulags in El Salvador, Guantanamo Bay, and Africa.
I remember when George w. Caesar was President, and it came up about #AbuGhraib and American torture. And I think the White House Council office wrote an argument saying that what the United States was doing in Iraq or any of the black site torture facilities, wasn't torture. Because America doesn't torture people. Therefore everything we do, isn't torture. And they said it with a straight face.
Il parallelismo fatto da #Mattarella ci può anche stare, per me #Putin era un criminale pure prima, ma lascio il giudizio agli storici.
Quello che stona è il doppio standard, e a volte pure il silenzio, del Presidente: come definire il #Genocidio di #Israele a #Gaza? E #AbuGhraib o #Afghanistan
A grim reminder of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was the torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison. | NPR
@davetroy #JulianAssange was just a hired ‘middle man’ when #AbuGhraib torture, #DemocraticParty nomination rigging, and other ‘classified’ information was published by #Wikileaks.
Since #ElonMusk is the middle man in the #DOGE heist, there is no reason for Assange to be involved. I suspect #Russia to broadcast some info on #RT but keep other information secret for its own most ‘effective’ and nefarious uses.
#Resist to #SaveAmerica.
#DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #warcrimes / #internationallaw / #icc / #arrestwarrants / #guantanamo / #abughraib
„Arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders are putting international law to the test. Do Western states only support UN courts when it serves their interests? Can the "principle of universal jurisdiction" save international criminal justice?”
https://qantara.de/en/article/what-the-Netanyahu-warrant-teaches-us-about-international-law
Great, that only took horrible acts of torture and 20+ years of the victims' lives. Still and all, big ups to the survivors and their supporters for sticking with this for so long. Abu Ghraib and the insane system of Bush-era "private contractors" (i.e., mercenaries) should never be forgotten or rehabilitated -- which includes, you know, not running for office on the support of the Cheney family.
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Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury in a federal court found a Virginia-based government contractor liable for its role in the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003-2004 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages, for a total of $42 million. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed in 2008 against CACI Premier Technology, Inc., on behalf of three men who endured the sorts of torture and abuse made infamous by leaked images that horrified the world twenty years ago. The jury in an earlier trial last April was unable to reach a unanimous decision; today’s verdict comes from a retrial with a new jury.
The jury found CACI liable for conspiring to torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of Suhail Al Shimari, a middle school principal, Asa’ad Zuba’e, a fruit vendor, and Salah Al-Ejaili, a journalist. The men were all held at the “hard site,” the part of the prison where the most severe abuses occurred. Along with hundreds of other Iraqis tortured at Abu Ghraib, they have suffered long-standing physical and emotional effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XX9HROtCiM
#Iraqis Tortured at #AbuGhraib Win $42Million Judgment AgainstbU.S. Military Contractor 
#CACI 
US military contractor CACI to face retrial over allegations of torture at #Iraq prison
Tyler Li | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA
June 15, 2024
"The case against #CACI is one of many legal actions against private military contractors accused of detainee abuse, including those against #TitanCorporation (later known as L-3 Services) and CACI for their roles in alleged abuse at #AbuGhraib, as well as against #Blackwater for incidents like the #NisourSquare massacre in #Baghdad. Many of these cases faced similar legal challenges, specifically dismissals based on national security concerns and the complexities of applying US law to actions taken in war zones."
#Iraqis Tortured at #AbuGhraib Win $42 Million Judgment Against U.S. Military Contractor #CACI
#DemocracyNow
November 14, 2024
"A federal jury in Virginia has ordered the U.S. military contractor CACI Premier Technology to pay a total of $42 million to three Iraqi men who were tortured at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. The landmark verdict comes after 16 years of litigation and marks the first time a civilian contractor has been found legally responsible for the gruesome abuses at Abu Ghraib. We discuss the case and its significance for #HumanRights with Baher Azmy, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented the Abu Ghraib survivors. 'This lawsuit has been about justice and accountability for three Iraqi men — our clients, Salah, Suhail and Asa’ad — who exhibited just awe-inspiring courage and resilience,' he says."
Watch (full transcript available later today):
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/14/baher_azmy_caci_guantanamo_lawsuit_torture
I didn't see this on The Guardian or the NYT. Thought it's worth spreading the news
https://thedissenter.org/jury-finds-us-military-contractor-caci-guilty-of-abu-ghraib-torture/
> What unfolded was a “rare instance” in the past 20 years since 9/11, “where torture survivors were heard and vindicated in a U.S. court."
Millionenentschädigung für drei Folteropfer aus Abu-Ghraib-Gefängnis
Fotos von gefolterten Häftlingen im Gefängnis Abu Ghraib im Irak sorgten vor rund 20 Jahren für Entsetzen. Elf US-Soldaten wurden seitdem verurteilt. Jetzt wurde drei früheren Häftlingen eine Millionenentschädigung zugesprochen.
This article is another example of how sometimes the title of a piece alone communicates precisely everything you need to know about an issue, in this case the reality that Israel is running illegal torture camps for Palestinian prisoners right out in the open - even if the Pig Empire media is curiously disinterested in talking about it:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-prison-torture
Where Is the Mass Outrage Over Israel’s Abu Ghraib?
"In recent days, it has become all too clear that something comparable to Abu Ghraib—and very possibly worse—has been taking place in Israeli prisons since October 7 when the war on Gaza broke out.
This week, appalling leaked video footage captured Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, just as a report from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem highlighted the state’s policy of systematic prisoner abuse and torture since the start of the war.
The report, based on interviews with 55 Palestinians detained since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, is distressing to read. It provides evidence of degrading treatment, arbitrary beatings, and sleep deprivation, as well as the “repeated use of sexual violence, in varying degrees of severity.”
As I've mentioned before while pursuing my own writing and research, I personally find the lack of mainstream reporting on Israeli atrocities against Palestinian prisoners (particularly at the notorious Sde Teiman prison) absolutely dumbfounding unless one simply accepts that it's clear evidence of the Pig Empire establishment's *active* attempts to cover up the crimes involved here on behalf of a MENA region ally; something that objectively runs counter to everything journalism is supposed to be about. What I hadn't considered however, was how much clearer the picture of an intentional cover up becomes when you compare the media response to these stories, and their reaction to the exposure of Iraq War-era abuses by American military personnel at the equally notorious Abu Ghraib prison just over two decades ago. In that context, the author's use of the term "omerta" to describe the intentional blanket of silence being placed over this story (and numerous other stories of Israeli human rights abuses just like it) is more than apt, and taken together makes it clear that the entire Pig Empire establishment, at both the state level and in for-profit media organizations, is actively complicit in those crimes in a very real, legally-defined sense of the word.
Now with global media focussing on the aerial bombardment of #Beirut and the #assassination of Ismail Hanniye in #Tehran, nobody talks about #SdeTeiman anymore. The Israeli detention centre judged more atrocious than #AbuGhraib even by Israeli institutions was the site of a rare confrontation with the ugly truth about the Israeli military (and society) only a couple of days ago, when military police arrested ten soldiers for gang raping Palestinian prisoners and the base being subsequently stormed by the extreme right.
So please, read about #SdeTeiman. You could start here: https://www.haaretz.com/search-results?q=Sde+teiman, https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sde+teiman&as_sitesearch=www.theguardian.com
“Più orribile di #AbuGhraib”: l’avvocato Khaled Mahajneh racconta la visita al centro di detenzione israeliano di #SdeTeiman.
Ne avevo postato un riassunto qualche giorno fa, qui la versione completa in italiano.
Credo meriti di essere letto interamente.
#30giugno #Gaza #Palestine #WestBank #Israel #IsraeliOccupation #ApartheidIsrael #HumanRights #StopArmingIsrael #StopAlGenocidio
