Audio and Video of first session of the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration is now available at the Commission web site http://www.bushcommission.org !

For the first time brought together, four categories of indictable crimes:

1) Wars of Aggression, with particular reference to the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

2) Torture and Indefinite Detention, with particular reference to the abandonment of international standards concerning the treatment of prisoners of war and the use of torture.

3) Destruction of the Global Environment, with particular reference to systematic policies contributing to the catastrophic effects of global warming.

4) Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights, with particular reference to the genocidal effects of forcing international agencies to promote "abstinence only" in the midst of a global AIDS epidemic.

Included in this remarkable first session are keynote speakers Marcus Raskin, Howard Zinn, and Michael Ratner, followed by searing testimony from such witnesses as Barbara Olshansky (coordinator of Guantanamo defense attorneys), Denis Halliday (former head of UN Humanitarian Mission In Iraq), Camilo E. Mejia (U.S. Army retired!), Ted Glick (Climate Crisis Coalition), and suvivors from New Orleans of the Bush policies before, during and after Hurricane Katrina.

To contact the Commission write to: commission@nion.us.


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Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

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