The judges at their bench (left) in Room 600 at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, during proceedings against leading Nazi figures for war crimes at the International Military Tribunal (IMT), Germany, 1945. Image Wikipedia.

“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

These words, spoken by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson at the opening of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal of Nazi war criminals, might give pause to White House and Pentagon strategists who appear anxious to launch a U.S. war on Venezuela, if only they had a fear of violating international law.

With a U.S. President who self-enriches and hurls insults like a gangland mob boss, it’s become routine to watch the White House orchestrate criminal acts in broad daylight: kidnapping college students using masked agents and unmarked vans; ordering mass arrests and detention of Spanish speakers without charges; flying kidnapped persons in chains to foreign countries and foreign prisons without due process or appeal rights; blowing up dozens of unknown persons in Caribbean fast boats and broadcasting the murders like a bloody video arcade.

The Trump Administration’s vicious crime spree........

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