Depleted Uranium: A Review of its Properties, Potential Danger and Recent Use in Yugoslavia
Presented at the 1999 Independent Commission on War Crimes during the Bombing of Yugoslavia
The issue of depleted uranium (DU) has been a source of intense debate since it’s first major use in the Gulf War in 1991. While the governments of the United States and other “Allied Powers” steadfastly maintain that DU is safe enough to eat in small quantities, the public and especially those likely to have been exposed to DU such as Gulf War veterans and Iraqi civilians …
International Law and the Rogue Superpower: The Bombing of Kosovo
Presented at the 1999 Independent Commission on War Crimes during the Bombing of Yugoslavia
The notion that humanitarian violations can be redressed with random destruction and killing by advanced technological means is inherently suspect. This is mere pretext for our arrogant assertion of dominance and power in defiance of international law.
-Walter J. Rockler, a Washington lawyer who was also a prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial (letter to the Chicago Tribune, 23 May 1999).
I advocate world government because …