“That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense.”
“Many of its current members — they include China, Saudi Arabia and Egypt — have poor human rights records themselves.”
“Flattering Kim with a few meaningless comments designed to foster goodwill is absolutely mild in comparison with the tangible support the US lends to other dictatorships.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/429889-trump-kim-us-dictators/
“If the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it ‘denuclearizes,’ why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/20/cuba-denuclearized-in-1962-why-continue-the-embargo/
“The ACLU’s move from neutral protector of civil liberties to partisan advocate of liberal politics is both a symptom and consequence [of extremes gaining power].”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/391682-the-final-nail-in-the-aclus-coffin
“The OLC argues that the presidential order, issued without authorization by or consultation with Congress, was nevertheless lawful because the president ‘had reasonably determined that the use of force would be in the national interest and that the anticipated hostilities would not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.'”
“The government of Sweden has reinstated the military draft and sent a war propaganda brochure to all Swedes promoting fear, Russophobia, and warlike thinking.”
Read more: http://davidswanson.org/swedens-military-madness/
“The UK paid legal fees for the defense of Pinochet against efforts to extradite him in light of severe human rights abuses, later paying the same barrister again to aid Sweden in its effort to extradite a journalist, Julian Assange, without charge.”
Read more: https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/06/from-pinochet-to-assange-a-tale-of-two-extraditions/
“America is now one of the world’s chief, unrepentant, unapologetic, still-polling-positive-on…torturers. How did we get here?”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/confronting-america-the-torturer/
“As the Saudis attack the Yemeni port town of Hodeidah, the stated goal is to starve the residents into opposing the Houthi forces controlling the city. The US is actively participating in what is clearly a war crime against civilians. Why?”