The argument that outsiders should not be allowed to criticize countries is being used more and more to thwart human rights campaigns By JOHANN HARI Commondreams.org Posted by Bulatlat.com Should you shut up about human rights abuses because they are happening far away, to people you don’t know, who have a different culture or color…
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Bitten by History: From the Gulf to Gaza and Afghanistan, the Familiar Way Proves the Wrong Way
By TOM ENGELHARDT Posted by Bulatlat.com History, or the future (however you want to look at it), has a funny way of rearing up and biting leaders who think they know what they’re doing. Take Barack Obama. Only weeks before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, he made a “pragmatic”…