Human Rights Abuse Report 2008: The Fox-Chicken Coop Analogy

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/index.htm

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/02/27/us-state-dept-issues-report-on-world-human-rights-abuses/4224/#comment-2802
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03/01/2009 :: 04:02:36 PM
Chithra KarunaKaran Says:

Which nation-state has bloodstained hands? A few. Is the US among them?

As a state sponsor of terror, example starting with the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the invasion and occupation of VietNam; invasion and continuing occupation of Iraq; the toppling of Mossadegh in Iran; a 60-year track record of destabilizing elected governments and freedom movements in various parts of the world, what gives the US the right to monitor human rights in sovereign nation-states? The US should absolutely monitor its own egregious actions in violation of human rights and accept the condemnation of nonpartisan non-governmental groups like Amnesty and HRW.

The vitally important work of developing (rather than merely monitoring) human rights world-wide, is best carried out by a *combination* of intergovernmental orgs. like the UN, and NGOs like Amnesty and HRW.

The development of Ethical Democracy requires a far more equitable reordering of geopolitical power and civil society priorities.

Chithra KarunaKaran
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice
http://EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com
see US and NATO out of South Asia
see Theory of Systemic Whiteness and related articles.