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Journalism of Horror and Helplessness
Jay Janson
How many of us working, with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark’s support,[1] to seed confidence that Nuremberg Principles law will soon come down on citizens of US, of NATO nations and of allied nations, including the still contested state of Israel, which exists primarily on seized, stolen and ethnically cleansed land, are freaking sick of reading, even during ongoing genocide, excellently and professionally written, moralistic journalism of horror and helplessness.
It’s as if there were no laws against genocide. We constantly read reportings of genocidal inhumanity presented in outrage and frustration, high indignation, projected vicarious suffering, and expressed anger instead of calls to action and any demand for organizing action to stop the horror.
As far as anyone can know, over the seven decades of professed anti-war, anti-imperialism and progressive journalism since World War Two’s end, not a single life has been saved, or subsequent new slaughter prevented in the next small nation targeted by Wall Street investor speculative profit-line calculations. Your author can testify to people in bombed and invaded nations expecting nothing from anti-war intellectuals living in the nations that bombed and invaded them.
The best informed and intelligent professors of alternative media in the First World (read Plundering Neocolonial [white] World) have been detailing and ‘exposing’ commercial media lies and reporting the mass-murder of people in their own beloved countries, as often as not in the very homes, since the very unpopular ‘police action’ in Korea begun in 1950. However, most all of these highly politically educated writers almost never refer to any events during of the now millions-fold total slaughter as prosecutable crimes against humanity under universally recognized Nuremberg Principles laws.
How many special courts invoking “crimes against humanity” have already been created to try leaders of African nations for genocide, as their nation are targeted by US-NATO for a next round of plunder and exploitation. What will it take to see First World intellectuals calling for special courts to prosecute fellow First World citizens, with a resultant seizure of assets, overwhelming in amount, to compensate unlawful death in the millions, indemnification for injuries in the tens of millions and the reparations for mega destruction of property and natural resources that will end all future investment in invasions, bombings and covert atrocities for their unprofitability.
Question: If the best informed members of the world’s aggressing society are not the most responsible that US-NATO and allies genocide continues on, who then is?