{"content":[{"text":"The alleged comment by Stalin to Churchill is chillingly apropos: The death of one man is a \n tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.051633,"width":0.79407,"height":0.033372}},{"text":"Coincidentally, as Rice demanded less criticism of Israel in the HRC, the Israeli army \n launched another attack on Gaza, with 21 Palestinian deaths so far, including Hamas deputy \n military chief Ahmed Al-Jaabari.. Earlier attempts to assassinate him include an air raid in \n 2004 which killed his eldest son, his brother and several of his cousins. (Rest assured, the \n US HRC rep will do his/her best to keep this oﬀ the agenda.)","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.102234,"width":0.794093,"height":0.08682299999999997}},{"text":"But though the slaughter and torture in Afghanistan and Gaza continues on a daily basis, \n with hardly a peep from the media, the force of world opinion has meant that US leaders \n commanding the likes of Bales, such as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and virtually all Israeli \n leaders, now have to be more careful about where they go. People around the world who \n refuse to consider the death of millions as an inconsequential statistic are waiting to enforce \n citizens’ arrests.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.206285,"width":0.7940840000000001,"height":0.10464099999999998}},{"text":"This week, four survivors of US torture ﬁled a complaint against Canada with the United \n Nations Committee Against Torture for the country’s failure to investigate and prosecute \n Bush during his visit to British Columbia last year, the ﬁrst such complaint ﬁled with the UN \n Committee. As a signatory to the 1984 Convention Against Torture, Canada has an \n obligation to investigate and prosecute a torture suspect on its soil, argued the Canadian \n Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) and the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.328154,"width":0.794091,"height":0.10464000000000001}},{"text":"Canada’s attorney general refused to consider the CCIJ’s call to conduct a criminal \n investigation during Bush’s visit last year, and the British Columbia provincial attorney \n general quickly shut down a private criminal prosecution. Bush cancelled a trip to \n Switzerland last year after he heard of plans for a similar prosecution and the apparent \n unwillingness of Swiss authorities to stop it.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.450023,"width":0.794141,"height":0.08682299999999993}},{"text":"Citizen diplomacy is coming alive. So far, there is no such campaign to try Obama for \n continuing the drone operations that kill civilians and non-civilians, men women and \n children, indiscriminately. However, popular support for Assange convinced Ecuador to give \n him asylum. As for Israel, its actions are increasing resistance rather than quelling it. Hamas \n militants in Gaza vowed to continue on the path of resistance, asserting that “the \n occupation opened the gates of hell.” Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi vowed that such \n violations of human rights would no longer be tolerated by Egypt, as they were in the past \n 30 years under US ally ex-President Hosni Mubarak.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.554074,"width":0.794085,"height":0.14027500000000004}},{"text":"The US and Israel have become infamous for their eagerness to torture and/or kill those they \n don’t like. US and Israel attacks have killed dozens, if not hundreds of Beheshtis daily for \n decades, and not at home, but as part of their aggressive wars abroad. Guantanamo, Abu \n Ghraib and Operation Cast Lead may have been crowded out of western media, but the \n crimes committed there will not go away.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.711577,"width":0.793976,"height":0.08682299999999998}},{"text":"A US Viet Nam War veteran at a Remembrance Day rally in Toronto this week spoke of “the \n heaps of corpses generated by modern industrial warfare. Every time I attended such \n ceremonies in the US, I speak up for the millions of Asians who died in that criminal folly. We \n slaughtered millions.”","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.815629,"width":0.794174,"height":0.0690059999999999}},{"text":"But this is merely the US agenda, just as US distaste for criticism of Israel on the HRC is, in \n preference for Iran. Just as is the US penchant for torture and killing, borrowed from Israel","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.901863,"width":0.794173,"height":0.03337200000000007}},{"text":"| 2","bbox":{"left":0.905167,"top":0.951943,"width":0.02340999999999993,"height":0.01659200000000005}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}