PNAC on Trial

[TNOE]

http://www.brusselstribunal.org/

Questioning the New Imperial World Order
A Hearing on the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC)




"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." - Tacitus


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The BRussells Tribunal is a hearing committee composed of academics, intellectuals and artists in the tradition of the Russell Tribunal, set up in 1967 to investigate war crimes committed during the Vietnam War. The hearing is scheduled for 14-17th April 2004 at The Beursschouwburg and Les Halles in Brussels. It will be presided by Professor François Houtart, one of the founding fathers of the World Social Forum in Porto Allegre. It is directed against the war in Iraq and the Imperial war policies of the Bush II administration. Its main focus will be the ‘Project for the New American Century’, the think tank behind this war, in particular three of the co-signatories of the mission statement: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, as they are the physical link between the discourse and the brutal practice of the New Imperial World Order as designed by PNAC. Read more...



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[qb]

1. Damn, that has a nice ring to it!

[AJ BENDER]

2. PNAC = WAR PROFITEERS & TRAITORS TO HUMANITY

Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, , Rumsfeld, Perle, Powell, Rice ... et. al should be arrested & turned over to the World Court in the Haage.

[Kanary]

3. I hope the rest of Europe rallies behind this!

I've been thinking that the way to *really* be effective in getting that mass of criminals behind bars is if other countries start applying pressure. This could be a start in the right direction, if people in Europe jump on this.

I have my fingers crossed.

Kanary

[LunaC]

4. WOW!

Somebody is FINALLY going to put the PNAC under a microscope! Yippee-ti-oh-ti-ay! It's about damn time!

(Clue-in your family and friends.....visit "The Whispering Campaign" link below!)

[TNOE]

5. Just a little

afternoon kick.

[freeminder]

6. proud belgian weighing in ashamed of myself

Hey! I didn't know about this! So glad we're doing this.

Pressure from Europe could weigh, but I'm pretty scared Bush* is capable (? ther's two words you don't often find together) of throwing all pressure out of the window.

Anyway, thanks for pointing this out!

:thumbsup:

[freeminder]

7. and *click* a bookmark for that site as well

below is the day 2 schedule. Looks pretty interesting imo

PNAC POLICIES AND THE WAR IN IRAQ
(Salle des Fêtes / Feestzaal)

09.00: "Benevolent hegemony ?" The neoconservative policy as a break with longstanding standards of US foreign policy (written testimony by Immanuel Wallerstein)
09.30: "The Rulers of the world": Geopolitical strategies behind the New Imperial War Policy (Michael Parenti)
10.30: The Global War has begun: the neocon blueprint of wars to come (Michel Collon)
11.30: Coffee break
12.00: "Weapons of mass deception": The UN inspections and the premeditated war in Iraq (written testimony by Scott Ritter)
13.00: Lunch break
14.30: "Pre-emptive strike": the war against Iraq, the UN and international law (Hans von Sponeck)
15.30: The horrors of occupation and the wholesale of Iraq (Haifa Zangana)
16.00: The collateral consequences of PNAC policies on the ground in Iraq (Amal Al-Khedairy )
17.00: coffee break
17.30: Plea of the defense ('amicus curiae', Jim Lobe)
18.15: Speech of the prosecution team (Karen Parker)
19.00: Closing of the tribunal by the Chairman
19.30: End of the sessions