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11/27/2004:

"U.S. Threatens to Cut Aid over International Criminal Court"

UNITED NATIONS -- The Republican-controlled Congress has stepped up its campaign to curtail the power of the International Criminal Court, threatening to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid to governments that refuse to sign immunity accords shielding U.S. personnel from being surrendered to the tribunal.

The move marks an escalation in U.S. efforts to ensure that the first world criminal court can never judge American citizens for crimes committed overseas. More than two years ago, Congress passed the American Servicemembers' Protection Act, which cut millions of dollars in military assistance to many countries that would not sign the Article 98 agreements, as they are known, that vow not to transfer to the court U.S. nationals accused of committing war crimes abroad.

Full Article : commondreams.org

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Saturday, November 27th, iyah360 posted:

WIll Europe give up its exploitation and pillage of the "3rd world" as well? I DON'T THINK SO. They can hide behind their liberal feel good ICC while pointing fingers at the blatent and out in the open wickedness of the U.S., but tell me are they ready to face a REAL U.N. or a REAL I.C.C. which will judge with harshness Europe's genocide and exploitation and political manipulations and pillagings and crimes against "non-white" humanity?

The U.S. damn well makes the world safe for Europe to do business as usual, this squabble IMO, just like the squabble in the U.N. security council about Iraq is about who gets the best seat at the table of capitalist feasting.