Fujimori Guilty

The news of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's conviction in Peru has not attracted as much attention as perhaps it should have.

As is pointed out:

The Lima judicial proceeding represents a major milestone, the first trial of a democratically elected head of state in his own country.

The Western powers since the end of WW11 have been notorious for their double standards and hypocrisy, beginning with the Nuremburg trials themselves. Nazi war criminals have been chased to the ends of the earth to this very day, more than 60 years after the war ended, but their own have never been prosecuted or charged, in spite of a ceaseless record of crimes and atrocities comprising many millions of victims.

One day this will change. The wheels of justice move slowly, but move they do.

The news of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's conviction in Peru has not attracted as much attention as perhaps it should have.

As is pointed out:

The Lima judicial proceeding represents a major milestone, the first trial of a democratically elected head of state in his own country.

The Western powers since the end of WW11 have been notorious for their double standards and hypocrisy, beginning with the Nuremburg trials themselves. Nazi war criminals have been chased to the ends of the earth to this very day, more than 60 years after the war ended, but their own have never been prosecuted or charged, in spite of a ceaseless record of crimes and atrocities comprising many millions of victims.

One day this will change. The wheels of justice move slowly, but move they do.

Fujimori Guilty

Rodrigue Tremblay: Imperialism and Fascism are on the Rise in the USA

Imperialism and Fascism are on the Rise in the USA: Discussion of specific laws and actions which suggest the Bush Administration have put in place the mechanisms of tyranny. Extraordinary, really. Most Americans (most people in the world) seem to have been sleepwalking through this huge constitutional crisis.

In the event of some new crisis like 9/11, US democracy could be more or less actually abolished. But with the huge decline in the political fortunes of the Bush gang, one ought be sceptical of how far they can really proceed with these plots. More likely, the formal concentration of power will continue in the US system, at the same time as both grassroots and international challenges to that power rise to confront it.

Imperialism and Fascism are on the Rise in the USA: Discussion of specific laws and actions which suggest the Bush Administration have put in place the mechanisms of tyranny. Extraordinary, really. Most Americans (most people in the world) seem to have been sleepwalking through this huge constitutional crisis.

In the event of some new crisis like 9/11, US democracy could be more or less actually abolished. But with the huge decline in the political fortunes of the Bush gang, one ought be sceptical of how far they can really proceed with these plots. More likely, the formal concentration of power will continue in the US system, at the same time as both grassroots and international challenges to that power rise to confront it.

Rodrigue Tremblay: Imperialism and Fascism are on the Rise in the USA