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Hard to pretend this is the actions of a few bad apples when the US still won’t join the International Criminal Court [1], going so far as to threaten retaliati
by wunderland 3y ago
Hard to pretend this is the actions of a few bad apples when the US still won’t join the International Criminal Court [1], going so far as to threaten retaliation if US officials are brought before an international tribunal [2].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_International_Criminal_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...
2: https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-be...
- krapp 3y agoAnyone who lived through the cultural zeitgeist in the US after 9/11 and the Bush Administration (and right wing media) attempts to normalize torture as "enhanced interrogation" and the like knows it isn't anomalous, it's part and parcel of the racist brutality of American imperialism that's usually hidden under its glossy Hollywood pop culture mask, and sometimes slips.