[Goanet] Our Hypocrisy on War Crimes | Fintan O’Toole | The New York Review of Books

2022-05-05 Thread ymirconsulting
While we are very right to condemn Russia and Putin over Ukraine, where were we when Bush and Blair lied to us to bomb Iraq into the Stone Age? And similarly in Afghanistan and Syria and Lybia? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/05/26/our-hypocrisy-on-war-crimes-fintan-otoole/ Sent from

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2022-05-05 Thread John Fernandes
"A picture is worth a thousand words" has never been more true than what we see everyday of the Russian/Ukraine war. All wars have wanton death and destruction, immeasurable pain and suffering, unfairness and hypocrisy. I think this war is different because of the unprecedented coverage of

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2022-05-05 Thread Anita Dias
True But 'Real time' images can be biased too. Ukranian soldiers demonstrated racial biases against the Africans and Indians...acc to some reports pushing/shoving them with their weapons and being very unpleasant. Threatening them too. Treating them like animals..herding them in various