Venezuela: A look at fake news and our own arrogance
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 11 2019 16:30
Fake news about Venezuela is a lesson wrapped in a lesson of why we are not in a position to decide the fates of other countries.
1977-83: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Protest Disapearnces in Argentina
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 26 2017 23:07
A history of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. A group of Mothers whose children had been killed and disappeared by the Argentinian government.
1984-85: Gay Activists Campaign Against Discrimination in Manitoba
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 25 2017 03:30
Article detailing the campaign to add sexual orientation to discrimination legislation.
The friendly face of US imperialism: USAID and Haiti
A report on the role of USAID in Haiti, demonstrating how international aid can be used to break up resistance and support foreign intervention and oppression.
Syrian and Latin American refugees, “worthy” and “unworthy” victims
Submitted by Soapy on Sep 25 2016 17:52
Obama speechifies about the plight of Syrian refugees, but his administration’s treatment of refugees from Latin and South America says more than anything.
On July 3rd remember Iran Air 655 and the true meaning of "American Exceptionalism"
Submitted by Soapy on Jul 2 2016 22:40
Every July 3rd we pass over a notable chapter in our history of "American Exceptionalism". This year marks 28 years since the US downing of Iran Air 655 killing all 290 people on board.
US commitment to human rights on display as staunch ally executes 47
Submitted by Soapy on Jan 5 2016 19:22
The US is implicated in the mass execution in Saudi Arabia more than the media likes to let on.
Colonial law and ideology: Israel and the Occupied Territories - Ben Cashdan
Investigation into the ways in which the law has been used by the Israeli state to ideologically legitimise land expropriations and the erosion of civil liberties for Palestinians.
The political economy of human rights - Robert Kurz
In this article written in 2002 during the build-up for the second Iraq War, Robert Kurz exposes the ideology of human rights in the context of capitalist society as more of a “threat” than a “promise” for the economically “superfluous”, who are no longer the subjects of rights and, as such, forfeit all claim to value, and calls this “the principal secret of all political economy and, most pertinently, of modern democratic politics” and claims that “the emancipatory critique of human rights is the precondition of all critique in the 21st century, just as the critique of religion was the precondition of all critique in the 19th century”.
Ideal illusions: How the U.S. government co-opted human rights - James Peck
Drawing on thousands of documents from the CIA, the National Security Council, the Pentagon, and development agencies, James Peck shows in blunt detail how Washington has shaped human rights into a potent ideological weapon for purposes having little to do with rights—and everything to do with furthering America's global reach.
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