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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The New York Time's M. Gessen writes an opinion piece on Sweden's longest criminal trial. Characterizing the often mundane hearings as "the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes." The trial examines the actions of oil company executives working to succeed in the war-torn Sudan in the 1990s.

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They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet 25 years later, in the #Lundin trial in Stockholm (Sweden), the oil company's former security chiefs remember almost nothing.

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-- Justice Info (@justiceinfo.bsky.social) Nov 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM

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Corporations are people too, right?

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-30 09:29 AM | Reply

War Crime Dementia.

It's a common affliction.

People just "forget" the Horrors but they KEEP the MONEY.

Its always about the Money.

ALWAYS.

They never forget about That...

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-30 09:36 AM | Reply

Theoretically, the obvious answer would be 'yes'. Legally, I reckon it's a bit more complicated.

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-30 09:57 PM | Reply

Anyone heard of I.G. Farben? How about Krupps?

Maybe not war crimes, but crimes against humanity, fer sure. Lots of German businesses used forced labor during WWII.

#4 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-31 06:23 AM | Reply

Evonik Industries, formerly known as Degussa AG, is a German chemical company. During WWII, the company produced Zyklon B, a pesticide that was later used in the gas chambers. After the war, two of the company's executives were executed for knowingly selling Zyklon B to the Schutzstaffel for use on humans.

#5 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-12-31 06:28 AM | Reply

Dow Chemical Company
Vietnam
Napalm
Agent Orange

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-31 06:58 AM | Reply

Who owns the large corporations, at the corporate board level, but the very rich and the very...fearful.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-12-31 07:05 AM | Reply

Caterpiller will always have a special place in the annals of genocide participants.

Industry has always been part of the eugenics movement by the right wing:

"Prescott Bush was Hitler's banker in America and was referred to by the New York Tribune as Hitler's angel."

..

"1904:

German Alfred Ploetz founds the Archive for Racial and Social Biology, which becomes the chief journal of the German eugenics or race hygiene movement. Ernst Haeckel popularized eugenics in Germany.

John D. Rockefeller issues "Occasional Letter No.1" detailing plans to mold the people, reduce national intelligence to the lowest common denominator, destroy parental influence, traditional and customs, and eliminate science and real learning, "in order to perfect human nature".

Eugenics laboratory established at Cold Springs Harbor on Long Island constructed by Charles B. Davenport. Cold Springs Harbor was also the location of the estates of both Dulles brothers. Cold Springs facility is funded in excess of $11 million by the Harrimans and the Rockefellers."

"1931:

W.A Harriman merges with the British firm Brown Brothers. Thatcher Brown, Prescott Bush and the two Harriman brothers were the senior partners in the new firm of Brown Brothers and Harriman. Robert Lovett son of Robert Scott Lovett and a close friend of Prescott Bush became a partner in the new firm. Lovett would later serve as Asst. Sec. for Air during the war, as Under Sec. Of State 1947-1949, as Deputy Sec. of Defense 1950-1951 and as Secretary of Defense 1951-1953. Prescott Bush ran the New York office while the London office of the new firm was ran by Thatcher Brown. Montagu Collet Norman, governor of the Bank of England and close friend of Prescott Bush often staying with the Bush family on his visits to New York was a partner of Brown Brothers. He also was a well-known Nazi sympathizer. His grandfather had been boss of Brown Brothers during the Civil war when Brown Brothers were directly responsible for shipping seventy five percent of the cotton from the south to England.

Precott Bush and George Walker hosted host of the Third International Congress of Eugenics. The purpose of the event was to call for the sterilization of fourteen million Americans.

Bank of International Settlements formed."

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-12-31 05:12 PM | Reply

@8


#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-31 05:46 PM | Reply

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