Charge U.S. War Criminals! No, Seriously.
Arrest warrants have been issued for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who compares this to arresting US Presidents, so... why don’t we?
Just this week, the International Criminal Court, the international tribunal set up to prosecute crimes against humanity, has officially issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In the court’s bombshell statement, the two men are charged for their involvement in the siege on the Gaza Strip, which is estimated⁺ to have killed around 335,500 Palestinians, the overwhelming majority of whom are civilians. The exact words of the court specified the charges are for “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024,” so this seems to not yet include charges for war crimes committed in Gaza after May of this year. This time frame would also exclude Israel’s terrorist attacks in Lebanon and the invasion of the West Bank, which was internationally recognized as illegal.
President Biden immediately denounced the ICC arrest warrant application when they were issued in May in a statement saying, “there is no equivalence –none– between Israel and Hamas.” It goes without saying that the warrants implicate US leadership as well for abetting genocidal actions, thus necessitating America’s condemnation. Nicholas Kristof for the New York Times reported in late November that aid workers he interviewed overwhelmingly agree that Israel is using starvation as a tool of war. In October, undeniable reports came out that Israel was deliberately blocking essential aid from Gaza, and the UN reported less than 40 aid trucks per day were entering compared to 500 last year. After intense international pressure, the US State Department sent a secret letter to the Israeli Defense Minister ‘threatening’ to put conditions on military supplies in 30 days if they did not comply with nineteen requirements to improve humanitarian measures. A comprehensive study by Refugees International investigating Israel’s compliance with those requirements found that Israel failed 15 of 19 measures and only partially implemented 4 measures, a finding parallel with seven other aid agencies investigating the matter. During this time, videos came out of Palestinians resorting to collecting spoiled flour from landfills for sustenance, as refugee markets were getting next to no food. When the 30 days were up, the US State Department blatantly lied on November 13th, saying that progress had been made, that Israel had complied with their letter, and that no conditions would be placed on them. This stubborn alliance with the Israeli state carrying out deliberate starvation is precisely why the ICC poses a threat to US leadership.
A critical note is that the United States and Israel are only ‘partial’ members of the ICC and do not recognize its jurisdiction. This is generally because both countries would have to investigate their own war crimes and then hold their own leader accountable for committing those crimes. Originating from the Nuremberg Trials of 1946 and the subsequent desire of the international community to have a central court to try war criminals, the ICC was established under the Rome Statute in 1998, beginning operation in 2002. Its singular purpose is to adjudicate genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. Until now, no American or Israeli has ever been charged by the ICC.
The United States has, however, been held accountable by the International Court of Justice, part of the United Nations. Unlike the ICC, the ICJ adjudicates all sorts of legal matters between UN member states, not just the worst war crimes. All member nations of the UN are automatically part of the ICJ, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they have jurisdiction. The United States withdrew from the ICJ’s compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 after being charged with violating Nicaragua’s sovereignty. America was found liable for sending arms and financial support to the right-wing rebel Contras fighting against the Marxist Sandinistas to create disorder within the country. Again, the US rejects jurisdiction, meaning it cannot have cases brought against it or bring cases against other nations. This rejection is for the same reason: over the years, America has been the primary hegemonic power that has broken international law countless times and does not want to be challenged.
In late December last year, South Africa brought a case against Israel for the crime of genocide. This 84-page case is exceptionally credible, laying out Israel’s implicit and explicit intent to systematically exterminate the Palestinian people. Citing the genocide convention, something Israel has signed, it defines genocidal intent as:
“killing members of the protected group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the protected group.”
The case provides detailed evidence that Israel is guilty of indiscriminately mass killing civilians, mass destruction of homes, expulsion of civilians, targeting essential medical facilities, deliberate starvation, and Israeli leaders rhetorically supporting the extermination of Palestinians. While this case will write the historical record, the case will unfortunately not have any jurisdiction because Israel, uncoincidentally, is not a member of the ICJ.
When these arrest warrants were issued in May, CNN interviewed Netanyahu to defend himself against the accusations from the ICC but more so to spread Israeli propaganda on American media. During this interview, you’ll notice he isn’t speaking to the international community, Israelis, or even the interviewer but to the American people themselves. Rather than making objective arguments about his innocence, he focuses on obfuscating the truth by making cartoonish deflections. In his address to Congress this year, he said that protestors saying ‘gays for Gaza’ is like ‘chickens for KFC’ despite his own country being very unfriendly to the queer community in many ways. Back in 2002, Netanyahu wrote a WSJ op-ed about a wild, fictional scenario where Al-Qaeda had a nuclear bomb to get the American public on board with the Iraq invasion. Then, in this CNN interview, he compares his being charged for war crimes with George Bush being charged for war crimes:
“[These charges] are beyond outrageous. This is a rogue prosecutor that has put false charges and created false symmetries that are both dangerous and false. And first of all, these symmetries. He equates the democratically elected leaders of Israel with the terrorist tyrants of Hamas. That's like saying that, well, I’m issuing arrest warrants for FDR and Churchill but also for Hitler. Or I’m issuing arrest warrants for George W Bush, but also for Bin Laden. That’s absurd.”
Statements like these exemplify how Netanyahu is a better American politician than most American politicians today. First and foremost, Israel relies on the US financially and politically, something he understands deeply. He speaks perfect English, his rhetoric is sharp, and he knows exactly how to speak to an American audience– giving punchy quips with the illusion of fact rather than dealing with reality. And this is what makes him come off so sinister and evil: using what amounts to jokes to justify ethnic cleansing.
If we were to carry his analogy to its logical conclusion, why shouldn’t we charge war criminals like George Bush? Since he mentions it, he’s right– it would be like George Bush and Bin Laden. That would be more than fair; the way they were elected doesn’t change the fact they both have committed despicable crimes against humanity. Making such an equivalence in the first place gets to the root of America and Israel’s foundational hypocrisy, where they claim the pedestal of righteousness, order, and equality– yet the people of other nations are treated as worthless, where slaughtering innocent civilian people in other countries can somehow be justified and carried out without consequence.
As Americans, we live in a hyper-patriotic society where the flag is seemingly everywhere, and when the anthem plays, not standing is taboo. Patriotism has become so bastardized that disrespecting or lacking respect for these American symbols is equivalent to disrespecting veterans themselves. For all it touts being a free, democratic society, can America really claim that if its leaders can’t be responsible for something as atrocious as war crimes and genocide? The extreme patriots in our country will antagonize the idea that America is a fundamentally immoral country from its founding up until today. They will argue that exploitation, racism, sexism, slavery, and systematic injustice are long in the past, and we live in a fair world today– but how could that possibly be if our entire country itself is immune from any international responsibility?
If none of our leaders will ever be held accountable for their crimes, this raises larger questions. What is the point of international law? Why even have State Department press conferences? Why even bother trying to pretend that America is beholden to justice? The answer lies with our consent. Our government cannot carry out these crimes if the majority doesn’t believe America is too great to be criticized.
Say, however, we did live in a world where our leaders were held accountable. Say they had to answer for their actions that affect the lives of everyone around the world. Who would we charge as war criminals?
Jimmy Carter, barely hanging onto life at age 100, is most well known to have had no active conflicts during his presidency besides his fumbling of the Iran hostage crisis. More importantly, but less well known, is his refusal to support Vietnam after such a devastating war that was initiated by the US, where it committed countless war crimes. Carter infamously carried out Operation Cyclone to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen, throwing more fuel on the fire in a proxy war to fight the Soviet Union. Carter increased the funding of the Indonesian troops who were mass killing people in East Timor, a conflict that would kill 200,000 people. This was part of his continuing the Jakarta strategy, where the CIA funds and arms right-wing rebellion groups in socialist nations around the world to create political unrest and thus facilitate civil wars. Under Carter, this exact method was carried out in Angola and Nicaragua to oppose communist coalitions, along with allegedly working with Saddam Hussein in Iraq to pressure the Iranian Revolution.
Henry Kissinger, who died last year, comes to mind as someone who undoubtedly should have been charged. As Secretary of State during the Vietnam War, he was primarily responsible for America’s hawkishness and cruelty during that time, most notably carpet bombing Cambodia. Part of one of the deadliest periods in US interventionism, he directly oversaw the deliberately planned Bengal Famine, which killed 3 million people, supported Israeli apartheid, the South African apartheid, and the Chilean coup, which destroyed the nation for years to come, to name a few. Kissinger also served as an advisor to every current President and their State Secretaries, likely a massive factor in the ongoing brutal legacy of US foreign policy. He died last year, escaping accountability, living well into old age, a luxury they stole from his millions of victims. Upon his death, some articles bizarrely described him as a ‘controversial statesman’ as if a legacy so vile deserves any neutral terminology.
George H. W. Bush, a four-year president, served much like the overtly neo-imperialist Reagan administration. He also escaped accountability in 2018 after living to be 94 years old. During the Gulf War, the US dropped over 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq and Kuwait in 43 days, targeting military and civilian infrastructure. After defeating the relatively weak Iraqi army, the US continued deep into the nation, bombing and notoriously attacking retreating troops. This response was so devastating that it would submerge Iraq’s economy for decades and lay the political groundwork for the subsequent Iraq War. Earlier in his career, he was CIA director and Vice President under Reagan, where he abetted offensive wars and the destruction of nations that were politically opposed to American interests.
Bill Clinton officially shifted the country toward a neo-liberal approach to foreign policy by emphasizing economic destabilization rather than overtly sending arms to nations deemed problematic. Afraid to repeat the failure of UN intervention in Somalia, the Clinton administration dragged its feet in responding to the Rwandan genocide that killed 800,000 people. Despite his many diplomatic efforts throughout the years, he solidified the US policy of instituting regime change in Iraq, which would later become the Iraq War. Clinton also bombed a major medical manufacturing facility in Sudan, something which still affects the country today. The most impact on the current day is Clinton’s supporting the Oslo Accords, which seemed like a step toward Israeli-Palestinian peace but was instead forced upon the Palestinian people, who deserved far more concessions than just recognition. In effect, it discredited the PLO, leading to the rise of Hamas while legitimizing illegal settlements in the West Bank. Recently, he made racist statements toward Palestinians, such as saying that Israel killing civilians in Gaza is justified and blamed the horrific war on Palestinians because Yasser Arafat didn’t accept the second Oslo Accords.
George W. Bush was undoubtedly responsible for far more death and destruction than Osama Bin Laden could ever have been while part of Al-Qaeda. It would be an immense stretch to blame the entire War in Afghanistan on Bin Laden, but even if you did, it still wouldn’t even come close to the human cost of the Iraq War carried out by the Bush administration. Under his watch, Bush, the Israel lobby, the oil lobby, and the war hawks in his cabinet manufactured the War on Terror, offensive wars with little justification. Both the Iraq and Afghan Wars over 20 years combined to displace an estimated 38 million people, directly kill 904,000 people, and indirectly kill an additional 3.8 million people– wars which are now generally agreed upon to be at the least a failure, but more accurately, among the worst crimes against humanity in history. Not only the overall human civilian cost but the lasting economic and political effects have put lasting scars on the region and its people. The US military in these wars notoriously committed many massacres of civilians, carried out no-knock raids, and tortured many people.
Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush, abetting all the war crimes in the Gulf War. Then, under George W. Bush, serving as Vice President, was the architect of the war crimes committed in the offensive War on Terror. Cheney was labeled a war hawk long before he even got his hands on power; come to find out, he abused the position to carry out his imperial will. Cheney was one of the main figures who pushed the false ‘weapons of mass destruction’ narrative to justify invading Iraq. Not only that, but during the War on Terror, Cheney oversaw the systematic torture of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay and at CIA black sites, something he still defends to this day.
Paul Wolfowitz was the architect of the Iraq and Afghan Wars. Wolfowitz crafted the Defense Policy Guidance, which formalized the policy of preemption that underpinned the justification for the War in Iraq. Wolfowitz is known to have loathed what he called a ‘premature’ end to the Gulf War. Understood to be the primary voice in the Bush cabinet pushing to invade Iraq after 9/11, he was likely the one to plant the seed for the President to go along with it.
Lewis Libby was the primary person in charge of executing the false story by pressuring the CIA to corroborate evidence that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had WMDs and was linked to Al-Qaeda. Libby was also convicted of lying to investigators about the Plame Affair to cover the administration’s retaliation against the press for leaking that the rumor of uranium shipments from Niger to Iraq was false.
Colin Powell, as Secretary of State under Bush, in an infamous moment, lied in front of the UN, presenting fabricated evidence that Saddam Hussein had WMD inside of Iraq. This was despite the Iraqi government overwhelmingly cooperating with UN inspections. The lie would later justify the Iraq invasion in 2003 and the senseless eight-year war. A CIA investigation in 2005 after the invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein found that no WMDs were in Iraq. Powell would escape accountability in 2021 at the age of 84.
Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under Bush, assisting in architecting the war and playing a prominent role in instituting the torture regime against international pressure. Rumsfeld had a particular contempt for international law, the Geneva Convention rules, and human rights. Early in his career, Rumsfeld played various roles supporting the Nixon administration during the disastrous Vietnam War. Rumsfeld was focused on the Afghanistan War during the Bush administration, where he took a brutish, excessive-force approach to the invasion. Rather than more precisely targeting Al-Qaeda, the war dragged on for over 20 years, fighting the Taliban as well and decimating the country in the process.
Richard Pearl, as Defense Policy Committee Chairman, urged Bush to accelerate plans for regime change in Iraq under the false pretense that America was under imminent threat.
Bill Kristol was Vice President and Chief of Staff under Dan Quayle in 1989 and was a prominent strategist in the Republican party throughout the 90s and 00s. Kristol is considered the ‘godfather of neoconservatism’ and one of the most prominent people advising the Bush administration, ardently urging the policy of preemptive wars. Kristol’s role in the Iraq War was to justify the invasion, obfuscate the truth, and spread fear to the Americans on public media like Fox News and CNN.
John Bolton, as Ambassador to the UN under Bush and later National Security Advisor under Trump, was co-architect of the Iraq War, providing support for the false WMD narrative. With his role in the international community, he has strongly resisted and threatened any efforts by the UN to restrain the United States and Israel in their many crimes against humanity. Bolton has been a strong ally of the Israel lobby and coordinated aggressive foreign policy with Israel in the region. Bolton is a fanatical advocate for ‘regime change’ across the Middle East, along with going to war with perceived enemies like Iran and North Korea.
Condoleezza Rice, as Secretary of State under Bush, despite being skeptical of the preemptive attack plan, eventually bent the knee and supported it along with the torture regime. Rice’s role was leading the generation of the state’s false justification, excuses, lies, and manufactured consent during the Iraq War. Rice is known for the infamous “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” comment made in regard to the alleged uranium shipments to Iraq and even wrote an editorial three months later in the New York Times titled “Why We Know Iraq is Lying.”
Michael Chertoff, as Secretary of Homeland Security under Bush, helped draft a memo justifying the CIA’s torture regime, directed the illegal detention of hundreds of people suspected of terrorism, and was co-author of the Patriot Act.
John Rizzo, as Senior Deputy General of the CIA, requested legal cover for the torture regime from the DOJ, which was affirmed and signed by Steven G. Bradbury, who was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel under Bush. This action legally allowed prisoners to be beaten, waterboarded, walled, put in stress positions, exposed to extreme temperatures, and deprived of sleep.
Barack Obama, as President, oversaw the institution of the unmanned drone strike policy, which killed an estimated 10,000 people across the Middle East. Though he pulled troops out overall, the war was said to have been converted from boots on a boots-on-the-ground operation to a covert war from the sky. Obama’s foreign policy was still one of interventionism, just far less public. Often, the individuals targeted were not investigated thoroughly and were often attacked merely for ‘suspicious activity.’ Many of these attacks would kill innocent civilians and the target’s family. Under his administration, drone attacks killed at least 4 American citizens. In late 2009, Obama ordered a troop surge into Afghanistan, continuing to fuel a war that had no strategic or political gain for the US. During this surge, direct civilian deaths would spike during the surge making it the deadliest year of the war for civilians. Despite posturing against the war prior to the election, Obama did nothing to hold the previous administration accountable, continued many of their policies, and refused to expose the torture regime.
Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State under Obama, was complicit in the drone strike policy, which went against international law and the war crimes during the War on Terror. In particular, her State Department fabricated evidence that Libyan troops were committing mass rape and human rights abuses to justify supporting regime change which ended in the total destruction of Libya’s economy and political stability. Clinton wanted to drastically escalate the War in Afghanistan and wanted to expand the War on Terror by increasing the already massive quantity of drone strikes. Before this, as a Senator, she was among the few Democrats who sided to support the Iraq War and continued to defend her vote long after there was plenty of evidence and public backlash against the war. It wasn’t until Clinton ran for President in 2008 that she began to backtrack and support withdrawing troops when it was most politically advantageous to do so. Clinton even criticized the Bush administration in 2006 for not being harsh enough on Iran. Once Clinton became the head of the State Department, she criticized the Obama withdrawal and urged for more troops to be sent. Clinton even called Obama’s historic Iran Nuclear Deal to be ‘irresponsible’ despite it being a massive step forward for nuclear nonproliferation. Clinton’s support for regime change in Libya eventually backfired when the Ansar al-Sharia group, which took over shortly after Gaddafi’s assassination, launched a coordinated attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi that killed 4 American diplomats.
Donald Trump, as President, quickly got to work committing war crimes, issuing drone strikes on Yemen, and ordering a raid that killed tens of Yemeni civilians in his first week. Throughout his Presidency, Trump drastically loosened the rules of engagements, leading to his administration killing well over three times the number of civilians with drone strikes compared to Obama. It was reported that Trump’s administration conducted at least one strike daily for the first 75 days of his Presidency. In Afghanistan, despite promising a withdrawal, Trump increased troops from 11,000 to 15,000 while delaying until after he was out of office. Trump made a politicized deal with the Taliban in 2020, which led to the destruction of the new Afghan government and rendered the 20-year ‘nation-building’ effort wasted. In March 2017, Trump authorized an airstrike that killed over 200 civilians in Mosul. In April 2017, Trump approved the use of the largest non-nuclear bomb, the MOAB, which was an unnecessary use of force that destroyed many homes and caused long-term damage to the agriculture and civilians of an impoverished area in Afghanistan. Trump was also a strong champion of Israel, creating the Abraham Accords, which emboldened Zionist colonization, legitimized the apartheid, and ultimately destroyed any hope of a peace process leading to the current conflict. Trump pardoned the perpetrators of the Nisour Square massacre in Iraq, who murdered 17 civilians. Trump has also advocated publicly for ‘taking out’ the families of ‘terrorists’ along with making the threat of “totally destroying North Korea” in front of the UN.
Mike Pompeo, as Secretary of State under Trump, was largely responsible for creating and implementing policy as Trump let his cabinet make many foreign policy decisions for him. Pompeo advocated for removing restrictions on drone strikes along with supporting the aggressive covert war on Yemen. Pompeo also helped sanction the ICC when it tried to investigate the US for its many war crimes in Afghanistan.
Joseph Biden was a prominent member of the Senate who strongly advocated for the War on Terror, holding hearings to support the false WMD story. In 1999, Biden helped provide ‘legislative cover’ for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which killed hundreds of civilians and went against the UN Security Council. As Vice President under Obama, he was a zealous supporter of ‘counterterrorism,’ which was really just interventionism to assert US interests. Biden was complicit in supporting the use of covert drone attacks in Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, something he continued into his presidency. Like Obama, Biden failed to prosecute the war crimes of his predecessors and continued much of their policies. Being a self-proclaimed Zionist, Biden almost religiously supported Israel throughout his career, especially his presidency. Biden backed Israel in 2021 when the ICC determined under the Rome Statute that their settlements in the West Bank violated international humanitarian law, something that, left unresolved, helped lead to the current Gaza genocide. In 2023 and 2024, Biden was the key world actor in enabling the Gaza genocide. Holding the lynchpin between the genocide continuing or not, Biden balked time after time when the international community had been raising many alarms that starvation, civilian targeting, and prisoner abuse had been occurring. Biden has approved three different bills that gave arms to Israel over 600 weapons shipments to help commit this genocide, including massive 2,000lb bombs to be used on dense civilian areas. With this, Biden is also breaking the Leahy Law, the Foreign Assistance Act, and the Arms Export Control Act in the United States, which restrict arms sales to nations carrying out human rights abuses. In total, Biden has given over $13 billion in military aid to Israel this year and has placed zero restrictions on that aid. In the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Biden has approved a massive $175 billion in aid to Ukraine throughout the war, $69 billion of which was for military purposes. Meanwhile, Biden has been at least dragging his feet, if not getting in the way of the peace process. Biden made the irrational decision in November to allow Ukraine to use US long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia, along with sending landmines to the Ukrainian army.
Lloyd Austin, as Secretary of Defense, was an integral part of the war, especially the drone strike regime under the Biden administration. Austin also played a role in obfuscating the Israeli military’s atrocities in Gaza, denying that it is committing genocide in the face of the ICJ and ICC statements. Austin has many times reaffirmed the United State’s ‘ironclad’ support of Israel. Austin also withheld releasing evidence of Russia’s war crimes from the ICC since they were in conflict over the Gaza genocide.
Anthony Blinken, as Secretary of State, assisted the Biden administration in sowing lies surrounding America’s role in the Gaza genocide. The State Department sent a document requesting Israel to improve the humanitarian situation, especially the lack of food aid trucks, indicating that they were fully knowledgeable about the deliberate starvation. After a month of Israel ignoring this request, the State Department lied about Israel’s compliance and did nothing to restrict Israel’s deliberate starvation. Blinken failed to fire his head spokesman, Matthew Miller, who has been entirely unprofessional, blatantly smirking and even laughing during press conferences regarding the Israel-Gaza situation. As early as January, it was reported by ProPublica that during a meeting, Blinken described the situation in Gaza as “absolutely gut wrenching and heartbreaking” yet continued to bend the truth, put out lies, and ultimately fund the genocide. It was also reported that arms contractors were manipulating the State Department to push through weapons sales. After an American citizen was murdered in the West Bank by Israel, Blinken did nothing to punish them, only feebly condemning it. After internal State Department staff urged Blinken to sanction the Israeli military for provable rape of prisoners and civilian killings, he took no action.
This list could’ve been much longer and could’ve included far more details. There were far more actors involved who had significant agency in executing war crimes. This only covers the most notable war criminals in modern American history and does not even scratch the surface of gross humanitarian atrocities the United States has committed in its history. From George Washington ordering the murder of Indigenous Americans to Truman dropping the atomic bomb to Nixon carpet-bombing Vietnam, there are essentially no US Presidents or administrations that have not been complicit in crimes against humanity.
Making sense of this gets to the core of how Americans think of our place in history. An honest reading of history will tell you that America rarely fights for freedom but rather to maintain its place as the world’s primary hegemon. But in the classroom and our media, America is at best portrayed as a neutral entity protecting ‘democracy’ and, at worst, justified in defending against ‘evil’ or ‘communism.’ We live in a nation that spends more on its military than most countries produce in total GDP while failing to provide adequate healthcare, retirement, and education for most citizens. Such a fact is something that may be vaguely understood by the American people but is simply not presented enough to have any influence in politics. A collective cognitive dissonance is necessary to maintain this glaring contradiction, and the force maintaining it is the powerful mythology of nationalism.
Nationalism is found everywhere to differing degrees; it can galvanize positive change and revolution, but it can also be used to justify hegemony and fascism. Americans indoctrinate each other into this nationalism, which becomes why Americans subconsciously believe other people are inherently less valuable. Americans broadly don’t think they believe this, but it expresses itself when they excuse the actions of their government, past and present. The mythology of nationalism is why we think that veterans ‘die for their country’ and not that their country sent them to die for no good reason. It’s why an American soldier dying is a tragedy, while the mass death of thousands of civilians in Mosul, Baghdad, or Gaza is business as usual. And while it’s entirely normal to feel a bit more sympathy for people of one’s own country– what isn’t normal is xenophobia, wanting revenge, or justifying atrocities.
Breaking this mindset is integral to solving the many of the world’s problems, especially our own. In solidarity with our fellow humans, we can see both that we are all inherently equal and that our struggles are all interconnected. That the reason why a health insurance company keeps denying your claims and threatens to put you in debt is the exact same reason why that person you drive past is living on the street is the same reason a young Iraqi child grew up without parents… the reason is capitalism.
With a more sober mind, governments cannot exploit our fear to justify war. With a sober mind, we are all equally valuable humans, and no crime against humanity is acceptable. With a sober mind, we can abandon our nationalist tendencies to fight capital together.
When are they going to go after Fauci for the millions of deaths he’s caused worldwide for decades?? He was defending no country, just getting richer and richer.