World-News

Ed Kinane, Truthout: ''Drone warfare is cowardly. A technician jiggles a joystick. Seconds later, thousands of miles away, a Reaper drone robot airplane fires a Hellfire missile, maiming or dismembering unsuspecting, unarmed, often unidentified human beings. That technician, along with his or her chain of command, plays god, a god who takes no risk in taking those human lives.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9161-drone-warfare-killing-our-civil-liberties-with-a-joystick



Somebody Else s Atrocities

Noam Chomsky, Truthout: ''In his penetrating study 'Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,' international affairs scholar James Peck observes, ''In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us', whoever 'us' is. Almost any moment in history yields innumerable illustrations. Let s keep to the past few weeks.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9555-noam-chomsky-somebody-elses-atrocities

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America s 23-Year War

By Anthony Gregory

If nothing else, this war has been effective at one thing: it gives cover for the steady erosion of human rights. Indefinite detention and surveillance, is there reason to believe any of this will end so long as the U.S. is at war?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31423.htm



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=human+rights
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