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American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes Hardcover – April 5, 2016

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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 establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes – starting with the Nuremberg tribunal following World War II, when Nazi officials were held accountable for their crimes against humanity. But the American government and legal system have consistently refused to apply these same principles to our own officials. Now Rebecca Gordon takes on the explosive task of “indicting” the officials who – in a just society – should be put on trial for war crimes. Some might dismiss this as a symbolic exercise. But what is at stake here is the very soul of the nation.
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"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." --Jeremy Varon, Los Angeles Review of Books

Praise for Mainstreaming Torture:

"Gordon’s terrific 2014 book Mainstreaming Torture put her on the map as a compelling human rights advocate. The book dissects the role of political rhetoric, media discourse, popular culture, and even academic treatise in making torture (by whatever name) acceptable. It stands as an instant classic among accounts of 9/11 and its aftermath, joining the path-breaking research of Alfred McCoy, Jane Mayer, Andy Worthington, and Karen Greenberg." --Jeremy Varon, Los Angeles Review of Books

About the Author

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 in Central America, South Africa and the United States. She lives in San Francisco.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hot Books (April 5, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510703330
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510703339
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Rebecca Gordon received her B.A. from Reed College and her M.Div. and Ph.D. in Ethics and Social Theory from Graduate Theological Union. She teaches in the Philosophy department at the University of San Francisco and for the university's Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good. Previous publications include Letters From Nicaragua and Cruel and Usual: How Welfare "Reform" Punishes Poor People .

Prior to her academic career, Gordon spent a few decades working in a variety of national and international movements for peace and justice. These include the movements for women's liberation and LGBT rights; movements in solidarity with the struggles of poor people in Central America; the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and South Africa; and movements opposing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 1984, Gordon spent six months living in the war zones of Nicaragua, and in 1990, three months teaching desktop publishing at an anti-apartheid newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a founder of Californians for Justice, a statewide organization dedicated to the political enfranchisement of marginalized people, especially young people, poor people, and people of color. Other organizations she has worked with include the Applied Research Center, the Center for Third World Organizing, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, and the Asian-Pacific Environmental Network. She is an editor of WarTimes/Tiempo de guerras, a which seeks to bring a race, class, and gender perspective to issues of war and peace.

Contact Rebecca Gordon: rgordon at usfca dot edu

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Toytoy369
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books to read.
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2024
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In an extremely important, well researched, well organized and well written book, Rebecca Gordon makes the case that between 2001 and 2015, both the Bush & Obama administrations, along with the CIA & the Pentagon, committed numerous war crimes and criminal human rights violations including horific illegal tortures and killing thousands of innocent civillians, in the name of an illegal "war on terror," which failed to make the U.S. any safer. The author lists in detail many of the crimes involved and some of the innocent people whose lives were ruined by this illegal activity, as well as exposing those who were most responsible for these international crimes. Gordon goes on to explain that not only does justice require that the people responsible stand trial for their crimes, and that victims be provided restitution. But it is also a necessity for the maintenance and future of democracy, justice and peace, that such as trial occur. She goes further to explain by what means this might actually take place. A most important book and a Must-Read for everyone who cares at all about the world that our children and grandchildren will inherit.
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Brendan Raymond
4.0 out of 5 stars “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2017
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In a speech delivered roughly around 1990, Noam Chomsky once stated “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.” Rebecca Gordon seems to have written a book that covers just that thought experiment. Though not as far reaching in time as Chomsky’s statement would apply, she covers the extent of war crimes committed by American leaders in a post 9/11 world. Her ultimate indictment includes 22 names in the similar fashion of the 22 convictions of the Nuremberg trials.

This thought experiment is morally instructive and engaging, diving through report after report, providing example after example on the subject of enhanced interrogation techniques (a euphemism for torture), extraordinary rendition (kidnapping), and assassination performed mainly under the instruction of the CIA. Gordon attempts to construct a legal framework while providing what members of the Bush and Obama administrations might have countered in return to such charges. American Nuremberg does draw from both international and domestic law citing primarily from the Geneva conventions (for international humanitarian law), and the 1996 war crimes act.

The excruciating detail brought to the fore by Gordon is appropriately shocking for those who have not read into the subject of torture prior to reading this book. The use of white phosphorous in the siege of Fallujah was particularly alarming but delivers one of Gordon’s best lines in the book. “It is perhaps particularly ironic that the United States should invade Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein was producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, only to employ its own chemical weapons against Iraqis.”

A quick read worthy of consideration regarding American intervention in the Middle East.
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Diane Palme
5.0 out of 5 stars Even the current administration is called to account
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2016
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Santayana's seminal quote, while often dismissed as trite, has the ring of truth to carry it forward. Rebecca Gordon’s newest book is an attempt to give us, as a nation, an opportunity to remember a past that we’d much rather forget.

While I initially had some measure of discomfort with the evocation of the Nuremberg Trials, mainly because of the scope of the Holocaust seems so much greater than that of the so-called “War on Terror”, Gordon’s thorough and meticulous account of the multitude of crimes committed by nearly a generation’s worth of American politicians was incredibly persuasive. She has clearly done her homework - as evidenced by her ability to not only cite chapter and verse of applicable International Law, but also to guide the reader through her argument with documented facts and, in many cases, the words of the accused themselves.

She pulls no punches and spares no one. Even the current administration is called to account for it’s advocation of drone strikes as a cleaner method to fight our own Dirty War. It is particularly dismaying to realize that what could have been a legacy of renewal for the Obama administration, after two terms of bitter political divide and the weariness of nearly a decade of war, will be forever marred by a continuation, if not escalation, of the mistakes of it’s predecessors.

This book has particular relevance today, in the heat of an unprecedented level of bellicose campaign rhetoric and an increasing frequency of attacks in Europe and the Middle East. Our next president will have to make a choice on how to deal with ISIS, whether or not to take us into a third decade of an undefined war, and whether or not to bring an end to an indefensible treatment of fellow human beings. I would hope that each and every candidate for elected office, from municipal to federal level, takes a few hours to read this book and think hard about how far we have removed ourselves from our humanity. Because while our elected officials are, indeed, responsible for their own actions, we are the ones that not only put them there - we are the ones that keep them there.

I look forward to a new Nuremberg.
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Robert S. Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Hard lessons to learnin the age of American exceptionalism
Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2018
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It would be nice if a good portion of Americans were to read this. Of course the demon Exceptionalism would intervene to make many question the information Ms. Gordon presents. It is sad that that is the case. The lessons are difficult to learn, particularly when they are about best held myths.
Thank you Ms. Gordon.
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Max Schumacher
5.0 out of 5 stars Die Richter warten umsonst
Reviewed in Germany on October 27, 2018
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Endlich gibt es eine Neuerscheinung, die in der Tradition von Chomsky / Herman steht, aber anhand neuer und neuester Beispiele den Nachweis führt, dass sämtliche US-Präsident seit dem Invasionscowboy Ronald Reagan (der aktuelle Nobrainer Trump fehlt leider noch) so viele und so schändliche Kriegsverbrechen begangen haben, dass sie ohne Ausnahme und nach den Maßstäben ihrer eigenen Propaganda vor den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag gestellt werden müssten (dessen Statut die USA wohlweislich nicht ratifiziert haben).
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M. Zarrar
5.0 out of 5 stars Delighted.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 13, 2016
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On time and as described. Delighted.
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