Talking Rights

In important and dangerous ways, the US is building an “anti-human rights” culture, part of which is the constant drumbeat of fear intentionally created by the Bush Administration to support policies that deny or violate human rights. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, wrote a piece about this in the [...]

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Rosie goes after Elizabeth on this recent “View” episode. Elizabeth seems determined to “naturalize” torture a la Jack Bauer. If the guys are really bad, she says, then torture is A-OK…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiq2Il7T5xQ

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When the activists who campaigned against the slave trade in Britain needed to get the word out about the horrors of the Middle Passage, they used a printing press. A 15th century invention, this machine was as revolutionary as the creation of writing itself, since it allowed books to be copied in large numbers, drastically [...]

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