Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
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Land Rush in Africa
Don’t worry, we’ll still pillage Africa: Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for […]
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UN Concludes UK Complicit in Torture
Tighten that noose: United Nations human rights investigators have concluded that the British government has been complicit in the mistreatment and possible torture of several of its own citizens during the “war on terror”. In a report published today that will make difficult reading for ministers who repeatedly denied the UK’s involvement in torture, UN officials […]
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CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding
Dear CIA, this is why we don’t believe anything you say: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate […]
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Guantanamo Guard Reunites with Ex-inmates
Only a matter of time before Maury or Tyra jumps on this: “You look different without a cap.” “You look different without the jump suits.” With those words, an extraordinary reunion gets under way. The last time Ruhal Ahmed met Brandon Neely, he was “behind bars, behind a cage and [Brandon] was on the other […]
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I Know How to Save $30 Billion
I’ve never really understood why Israel can’t fund their own military: As the single largest expense of the 2010 foreign aid budget, President Obama approved $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel, the first payment in a decade-long commitment that will reach at least $30 billion. Last year, Israel’s military budget amounted to $13.3 billion, […]
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54% Americans Okay with Torture
Too much Jack Bauer: Most notably, 19% of the public says the use of torture is often justified to gain important information from terrorist suspects, while 35% say the use of torture in these circumstances is at least sometimes justified. Just 2% of [Council on Foreign Relations] members say torture is often justified, and 11% […]