Human Rights Watch Keeps the Distortions Coming about Venezuela
By Joe Emersberger | Zblogs | April 11, 2014
In a blog post for the New York Review of Books, Daniel Wilkenson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote:
New York Review of Books
Human Rights Watch Keeps the Distortions Coming about Venezuela
By Joe Emersberger | Zblogs | April 11, 2014
In a blog post for the New York Review of Books, Daniel Wilkenson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote:
One papal hand washes another papal heinie -- and so it goes
Above the fray: The saintly, now sainted, John XXIIIonce again provides cover for a darker "promotion.""[I]t is a bit sad to see Pope Francis, who has been doing wonderful things in his short time at the Vatican, play the old game of self-certification at the top of a saint-making factory. Many hope he will make needed changes in the church.
"I thank God there is no God to see what we've done to the world" ("part-time pessimist" Charles Simic)
"Recently a reviewer complained that my new book of poems is much too preoccupied with death. He appeared to suggest that I ought to be more upbeat, dispensing serene wisdom in the autumn of my life, instead of reminding readers every chance I get of their mortality. Just you wait, I said to myself, till you reach my age and start going to funerals of your friends.
