American Nuremberg
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911
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American national security
Author_Rebecca Gordon
black sites
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detention centers
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drone assassinations
drones
Dubya
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George Bush
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
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human rights
human rights violations
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ISBN13=9781510703339
Language_English
national security
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President W Bush
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PUB=Skyhorse Publishing
September 11
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Subject=Warfare & Defence
US detention centers
US drones
US national security
US surveillance
US torture
US war crimes
war crimes
war on terror
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- ISBN 9781510703339
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 411g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 30mm
- Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Publication City/Country: NY, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government has taken after 9/11 in the name of national security. Torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or black sites”), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed by U.S. intelligence agencies and armed forces, no high U.S. official has been prosecuted for these violations which many legal observers around the world consider war crimes.
The United States helped establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes starting with the Nuremberg tribunal following World War II, when Nazi officials were held accountable for their crimes against humanity. But the American government and legal system have consistently refused to apply these same principles to our own officials. Now Rebecca Gordon takes on the explosive task of indicting” the officials who in a just society should be put on trial for war crimes. Some might dismiss this as a symbolic exercise. But what is at stake here is the very soul of the nation.
The United States helped establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes starting with the Nuremberg tribunal following World War II, when Nazi officials were held accountable for their crimes against humanity. But the American government and legal system have consistently refused to apply these same principles to our own officials. Now Rebecca Gordon takes on the explosive task of indicting” the officials who in a just society should be put on trial for war crimes. Some might dismiss this as a symbolic exercise. But what is at stake here is the very soul of the nation.
Rebecca Gordon is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, which has been hailed as a morally challenging” and courageous work” that reveals how torture has been sanitized” in America. She teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco. Prior to her academic career, Gordon spent decades working as an activist in peace and justice movements in Central America, South Africa and the United States. She lives in San Francisco.
