Iraq War Crimes to NASA: Free Assange

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Worms Against Nuclear Killers: "You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war"

Upon hearing that one of the victims is a young girl, the pilots laugh, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids to a battle". Wrong.

https://wingsoveriraq.blogspot.com/2010/04/why-coin-for-aviators-is-so-important.html

The Collateral Murder video depicts a U.S. Apache attack helicopter killing 12 people, including two Reuters journalists, and a passerby who stopped his van to rescue the wounded. Also wounded were two children in the van. Finally, a U.S. tank drove over one of the bodies, cutting the man in half. These acts constitute three separate war crimes under the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Army Field Manual.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-injustices-of-manning-s-ordeal/

Collateral Murder
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate
slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the
time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying
of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
Injustices of Manning’s Ordeal

For exposing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pvt. Chelsea Manning suffered nearly seven years in prison, an ordeal President Obama finally is ending but without acting on the crimes she revealed https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/25/injustices-mannings-ordeal

George Bush and Tony Blair Should be Behind Bars Not Julian Assange

The absence of bitterness from John’s conversation with me is remarkable and testimony to his compassion and understanding of world affairs. His admiration for his son’s courage and strength is huge. Julian Assange committed no crimes. He is in a prison cell while real war criminals like George Bush and Tony Blair escape justice. They are the ones who lied and bullied and bribed and blackmailed the UN to try and get a second resolution justifying invading Iraq. They failed.

The invasion and subsequent occupation were illegal and they should be held responsible for the one million civilian deaths which resulted.
https://solidarity.scot/10yrs-on-from-iraq-war-logs-bush-blair-should-be-in-prison-not-assange/

You are saying that Julian Assange won’t receive a fair trial in the United States?
Without doubt. For as long as employees of the American government obey the orders of their superiors, they can participate in wars of aggression, war crimes and torture knowing full well that they will never have to answer to their actions. What happened to the lessons learned in the Nuremberg Trials? I have worked long enough in conflict zones to know that mistakes happen in war. It’s not always unscrupulous criminal acts. A lot of it is the result of stress, exhaustion and panic. That’s why I can absolutely understand when a government says: We’ll bring the truth to light and we, as a state, take full responsibility for the harm caused, but if blame cannot be directly assigned to individuals, we will not be imposing draconian punishments. But it is extremely dangerous when the truth is suppressed and criminals are not brought to justice. In the 1930s, Germany and Japan left the League of Nations. Fifteen years later, the world lay in ruins. Today, the U.S. has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council, and neither the «Collateral Murder» massacre nor the CIA torture following 9/11 nor the war of aggression against Iraq have led to criminal investigations. Now, the United Kingdom is following that example. The Security and Intelligence Committee in the country’s own parliament published two extensive reports in 2018 showing that Britain was much more deeply involved in the secret CIA torture program than previously believed. The committee recommended a formal investigation. The first thing that Boris Johnson did after he became prime minister was to annul that investigation.
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

Assange’s conviction opens the door for a broad assault on press freedoms, but the issue is not how a conviction of the “bad” Assange threatens the “good” New York Times. The political and media establishment in the United States may revile Assange, but it’s illuminating to take stock of his international supporters. They include former heads of state like ex-Brazilian president Lula da Silva, himself recently a political prisoner, and ex-Bolivian president Evo Morales, deposed by a coup. High-profile leftist politicians like Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon have publicly opposed his extradition.
https://jacobin-v2.positiondevapp.com/2020/10/julian-assange-wikileaks-espionage-act-war-crimes

Chris Hedges: The execution of Julian Assange
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/543082-execution-assange-empire-lies/

Aim of Assange’s prosecution is to ‘scare others’ – Rafael Correa
https://www.rt.com/news/542890-rafael-correa-assange-case/

18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
I don’t think anyone from the Bilderberg Group is being tortured in solitary confinement right now. Yet Julian Assange is for revealing who they are.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/18-ways-julian-assange-changed-the-world/

When NASA Got WANKed
WANK started at NASA, but it didn't stay at the space agency. Workers at the Department of Energy in the U.S., CERN in Switzerland, and RIKEN in Japan soon found their computers "WANKed" as well.
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/01/12/when_nasa_got_wanked.html

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