#Madeleine Albright

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THROWBACK TO 1998: STUDENT CALLS ON U.S. TO IMPLEMENT INT’L LAW FOR ALL

In this 1998 clip, an Ohio State University student told then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (1997-2001) that US policy should be consistent in enforcing international law, whether in Iraq, Israel or East Timor. He alleged the United States disregards international law for its allies, such as Israel, which has received the most US foreign aid since 1948.

The United States emerged as a superpower after World War II, which some call the second imperialist war. During that time, the US conducted the first atomic bombardment, killing an estimated 214,000 Japanese and leaving thousands of others to suffer disfigurement, side effects of radiation exposure, and diseases like leukaemia and cancer.

The United States became one of the founding members of the United Nations, which gave it veto power on the UN Security Council, the UN body with the power to pass legally binding resolutions.

Unfortunately, this has allowed the United States to use its military force and diplomatic and economic power to subjugate other countries, such as Korea, Vietnam and others. After the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, the United States began to invade countries without international consensus and under the premise of the UN’s ‘Responsibility to Protect’ principle.

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people HAVE BEEN speaking up about US war crimes

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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

— Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright by Stephan Vanfleteren

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"The US/UN sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s resulted in the deaths of over a million Iraqis. The 1990 war on Iraq had already devastated the country, destroying its modern infrastructure and denying Iraqis the right to security, access to water, health, shelter, and, more generally, the requirements for a decent life. Denis Halliday, an assistant secretary-general who was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Baghdad, resigned after a thirty four-year career with the UN in protest of the sanctions regime. He stated: "I don't want to administer a programme that satisfies the definition of genocide." Another UN humanitarian coordinator, Hans von Sponeck, also resigned in protest and penned a book that laid out the devastation caused by the US/UN sanctions. Madeleine Albright, secretary of state during the Clinton administration, was asked by journalist Lesley Stahl on the show 60 Minutes whether the price of sanctions in the form of half a million dead Iraqi children was worth it, and without hesitation Albright replied, "we think the price is worth it." Iraqis were marked by a vulnerability to premature death, through a deeply racist logic. The draconian sanction regime was acceptable to the political elite because it advanced US imperial aims."

- Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Fascism: A Warning

Finally, and even more seriously, I fear a return to the international climate that prevailed in the 1920s and '30s, when the United States withdrew from the global stage and countries everywhere pursued what they perceived to be their own interests without regard to larger and more enduring goals.

When arguing that every age has its own Fascism, the Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached “not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.”

If he is right (and I think he is), we have reason to be concerned by the gathering array of political and social currents buffeting us today—currents propelled by the dark underside of the technological revolution, the corroding effects of power, the American president’s disrespect for truth, and the widening acceptance of dehumanizing insults, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism as being within the bounds of normal public debate.

We are not there yet, but these feel like signposts on the road back to an era when Fascism found nourishment and individual tragedies were multiplied millions-fold.

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Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now

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"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." ― Madeleine Albright

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I was delighted to find a #signedbook by Madeleine Albright the first female #secretaryofstate and #author

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DR. MADELEINE ALBRIGHT // DIPLOMAT

“She was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright was the first woman to hold that post. Following the 1992 presidential election, Albright helped assemble President Bill Clinton's National Security Council. She was appointed United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997, a position she held until her elevation as secretary of state. Secretary Albright served in that capacity until President Clinton left office in 2001.”

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Just noticed the resemblance ...

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The goal we seek, and the good we hope for, comes not as some final reward but as the hidden companion to our quest.

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War by Madeleine Albright

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Madeleine Albright: killing half a million Iraqi children was worth it!