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      Mourners cry at vigil for Nashville victims.

      No Motive Needed When Dehumanization Reigns

      From wars abroad to massacres at home, dehumanization makes so much that is hideous possible!

      Robert C. Koehler
      Mar 30, 2023

      “Chief Drake said it was too early to discuss a possible motive for the shooting, though he confirmed that the attack was targeted. The authorities were reviewing writings, and had made contact with the shooter’s father. . . .”

      Yeah, they’ll figure it out.

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      A mother cries after learning that her son Mohammed Nasr was not released along with others from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

      Blowing Out the Candles in Iraq

      We're talking about murdering children, for God's sake, annihilating a social structure, driving millions of people out of their homes and shattering their lives. Somehow the term "failed policymaking" doesn't do it justice.

      Robert C. Koehler
      Mar 23, 2023

      I read the news—invasion of Iraq! twentieth anniversary!—and struggle to transcend the abstraction of my remorse. A million killed? Half a million? The mortality stats vary depending on the source's politics.

      But beyond the numbers looms an indifference that defines what is called "news."

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      Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush

      Russian War Crimes in Ukraine 20 Years After US Criminal Invasion of Iraq

      How can there be real accountability for war crimes when international law is replaced by an undefined "rules-based order"?

      Phyllis Bennis
      Mar 23, 2023

      This week marked the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. The war left at least 800,000 to 1.1 million Iraqis dead, and certainly many more injured, maimed, and permanently displaced.

      The invasion and subsequent military occupation destroyed Iraq's once-modern infrastructure and much of its environment while shredding the country's social fabric. The war gave rise to religious and ethnic divides, created unfathomable levels of corruption, left a legacy of sectarian militias and terrorist organizations including ISIS. War crimes by the U.S. military and private contractors, even beyond the initial crime of aggression, exploded from Abu Ghraib to Fallujah to Nisour Square and beyond.

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