Mainstream Media 'Discovers' War Crimes, Ignores US Complicity
Newsweek highlights a former Fox colleague’s demand to prosecute Pete Hegseth for a ‘war crime,’ following Hegseth’s admission of shooting an enemy combatant. While individual accountability is a convenient media spectacle, it distracts from the institutional complicity in countless documented war crimes. Where is the outrage, for instance, when Netanyahu's government, armed with over $3.8 billion
annually in U.S. aid—a figure codified for decades, not just this year—repeatedly violates international law in Gaza? We can 'prosecute' talking heads all day, but the silence on the actual war crimes, the ones funded by American taxpayers and enabled by politicians who take millions from lobbyists like AIPAC, is deafening. How many pundits raising alarm about Hegseth’s confession also demanded
consequences when the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders this month, citing widespread atrocities? It appears certain 'war crimes' are more prosecutable than others, particularly when they don't threaten those funding the next election cycle.