Diplomats should think hard about why their policy of aiding and trading with the regime went so wrong, write Phil Miller and Matt Kennard.
Britain Must Learn from Burma Bloodbath
Category: Human Rights
COVID-19: Brazil & the Need for a ‘New Solidarity’
Brazilian health expert Margareth Dalcolmo says Covid-19-induced mortality has a social component that cannot be ignored — people are dying because they are poor.
How America’s Official Secrets Act Ensnared Julian Assange
If the U.S. wins its appeal, Julian Assange will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.
People-to-People Projects Build Israeli Impunity
Yara Hawari details how citizen-diplomacy legislation passed by U.S. Congress in December undermines Palestinian rights.
Calling Chauvin a ‘Bad Apple’ Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence
Regardless of the trial outcome, Marjorie Cohn says the entire system must be indicted as racist and violent.
Unaccompanied Minors Sent to Contaminated Military Bases
An environmental group blasts Biden’s plan to use toxic military sites as detention centers for migrant children in U.S. custody.
Reminder: US Weaponizes ‘Human Rights’
In response to the sanctions imposed on Chinese officials, Caitlin Johnstone spotlights a 2007 leaked State Department memo describing the U.S. double standard for allies and adversaries.
Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA
From the Archives: For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can…
Britain’s Secret Political Police
A who’s who of the U.K. radical left over the past half century was infiltrated by “spycops,” reports Asa Winstanley, who has personal involvement with this story.
Biden Continues US Indifference to Palestinian Suffering
James Zogby finds Washington, in the past few weeks, giving Israel the usual green light to behave with impunity.