By Robert Parry
March 5, 2009
New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof – like many of his American colleagues – is applauding the International Criminal Court’s arrest order against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for his role in the Darfur conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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Anonymous // March 5, 2009 at 10:51 pm |
Insightful piece on how risk-averse “group think” festers in the Washington press corps, and it’s a good reminder why Consortium News journalism is so needed.
My check is in the mail.
Correction requested: I scoured Dana Milbank’s Washington Post article on efforts to form a truth commission, but found nothing even remotely “clever.”
Anonymous // March 5, 2009 at 11:06 pm |
I know these clever journlists think they are helping Bush with his defence. But my thoughts are they are just weaking our country and the world with there snide hypocrisy………….
“U.S. journalists are cheering war crimes charges against Sudan President Bashir”
sanda // March 5, 2009 at 11:56 pm |
The good news is that Americans don’t agree with Kristof or Milbank (neither of whom I’d read; that’s Robert Parry’s “job”/choice). I do prefer the summary. And Kristof’s names list did make me laugh.
As a woman, I think Dennis Kucinich’s English-born wife is beautiful, tall and smart. How smart of Kucinich to marry her.
On the serious side, Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, guest on today’s “DemocracyNow” summed it up very well: the “truth commission” Leahy suggests, would be a diversion, possibly wreck prosecutions in the future by granting immunity and Sen. Leahy is not all that far from where the Republicans would like to be on the issue. I support a special prosecutor and investigative commission (as does Ratner, but clear said), working in tandem, NOT a “truth commission…then move on”. The Sept. 11th, 2001 Commission is the best reason for not having another commission (they never asked all the question, nor followed the money). This is a different problem: US laws broken by persons in the US government. If the US judicial system doesn’t do the investigation/prosecutions, then other countries will do it.
http://www.democracynow.org for video,transcipt of show(s) I hope Robert Parry will again be a guest on the show, soon.
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