Venezuela: A look at fake news and our own arrogance
1977-83: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Protest Disapearnces in Argentina
1984-85: Gay Activists Campaign Against Discrimination in Manitoba
Article detailing the campaign to add sexual orientation to discrimination legislation.
Syrian and Latin American refugees, “worthy” and “unworthy” victims
On July 3rd remember Iran Air 655 and the true meaning of "American Exceptionalism"
US commitment to human rights on display as staunch ally executes 47
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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