source Does US meddling in Myanmar risk Syria/Libya-style war? Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss US meddling in the protests in Myanmar with geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic, and how Washington seeks to weaken a neighbor of China and key ally in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. We address the coup by the Tatmadaw military, the […]
Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. Transcript below. By Anya Parampil A new report by a special mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council was released in September and is making headlines after it accused Venezuela’s government of crimes against humanity. Because it is getting so much attention, several people have reached out to me asking for clarification regarding the information […]
Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. Transcript below. By Anya Parampil A new report by a special mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council was released in September and is making headlines after it accused Venezuela’s government of crimes against humanity. Because it is getting so much attention, several people have reached out to me asking for clarification regarding the information […]
Kofi Annan, who led the UN for 10 years, beginning in 1997, attending the Munich Security Conference in April 2018. He died suddenly on Aug. 18, 2018, at 80 years old, a day before the anniversary of the 2003 terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. CREATIVE COMMONS
Opinion — One of the most ingenious propaganda weapons ever developed is that the powerful nations of the West—led by the United States—have a moral responsibility to use military force to protect the rights of people being repressed by their governments. This “responsibility to protect” (R2P) always had a dubious legal standing, but its moral justification also required a psychological and historical disengagement from the bloody reality of the 500-hundred-year history of U.S. and European colonialism, slavery, genocide and torture that created the “West.”
The West is rushing toward another major war in the Middle East, in Syria, behind the “responsibility to protect” banner, which may justify endless U.S. military interventions, says Conn Hallinan at Foreign Policy in Focus. By Conn Hallinan While the mainstream…Read more →
By Jovanni Reyes · NYTX · August 20, 2013
