Monday March 16, 2009
Who Is America to Judge?
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian
After Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary renditions, other countries now challenge America's standing on human rights.
The US state department's annual human rights report got an unusual amount of criticism this year. This time the centre-left coalition government of Chile was notable in joining other countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela and China - who have had more rocky relations with Washington - in questioning the moral authority of the US government's judging other countries' human rights practices.
read full story
Posted in: by bubblejam at 06:43 PM | Comments (0) | Email This Entry