Welcome, friends. This is James Corbett ofcorbettReport.com reporting today via global research.ca

On the Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War.

For those who have not seen my recent report on this subject, I would suggest that you check it out.

It is called War is a Crime, and it presents the proceedings of a conference that took place in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia

just a few weeks ago. And I was in attendance at that conference. It was a 20th anniversary

commemoration of the signing of the Kuala Lumpur initiative to criminalize war. And all of the

background and meaning and explanation of that initiative is provided in that

aforementioned report. So I will put that in the show notes so that you can go and check it out if you have not yet done so,

along with my interview with former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahatir Mohamed, the person who spearheaded,

launched, and helped to sign that initial declaration.

Long story short, that declaration was a bold and obviously aspirational, but very important and

very simple idea, simply the idea that aggressive war is a crime in and of itself and deserves to be prosecuted as such.

Now, again, that's an interesting concept, and you can see my report on that anniversary

commemoration that I attended so that you can find out more about that idea where it came

from, how it unfolded, and where it's going. But as part of those proceedings,

Professor Michelle Chosadowski, who was one of the original signers of that original declaration

back in 2005, was, of course, invited to attend that event, but was unable to. So I attended

in his stead, but I was able to record a conversation with Professor Chosadowski, his reflections and

ruminations on the meaning of that 20th anniversary of that initiative. What is that initiative? Why is it

important? What does it say that we have made, if not little progress, perhaps even the antithesis of

progress towards that ideal of criminalizing war. And

Professor Chosidowski has some very interesting things to say about that. Along the lines of,

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