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American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes
Rebecca Gordon
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Description for American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hot Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
432g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
NY, United States
ISBN
9781510703339
SKU
V9781510703339
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About Rebecca Gordon
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 ... Read more
Reviews for American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes
Praise for American Nuremberg: In American Nuremberg [Gordon] trades academic nuance for a plainspoken, even folksy, prose style. The effect is to present damning legal arguments as common moral sense. The book is eminently valuable in distinguishing the categories of potential crimes and the national and international laws relevant to them.
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