Tuesday, August 2, 2011

12 U.S.-related Human Rights Stories the Press is Missing

"When accused of acting inconsistently with human rights, our leaders employ plausible deniability, diplomatic doublespeak and spin, or the trump card of national or even global security.
Then those leaders ask people around the world -- as well as their own people -- to trust them, even though they resist any oversight of their own actions.

And they can count on getting away with it because of the American public's profound ignorance of what human rights really are."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28713.htm

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