Stubbing out hypocrisy
Speak softly and carry a big carrot. We have to adapt to a situation where European norms and values face genuine opposition and cannot be universally dictated to others. Rule of law and promotion of democracy and human rights form the essence of the European Union. I am not saying we should abandon this.
Yes you are. Quoting Iivi Anna Masso: "When exactly, since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the UN General Assembly, did human rights become "European norms and values" that "cannot be universally dictated to others"?
Mexico's War of Terror
At least 25,000 people have been slaughtered in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón hurled the Mexican Army into the anti-cartel battle. The war, assisted by the US, terrorizes the Mexican people and generates thousands of documented human rights abuses by the police and Mexican Army. Here is the US policy in a nutshell: we pay Mexicans to kill Mexicans, and this slaughter has no effect on drug shipments or prices.
How does the escalation in violence benefit the drug smuggling business which has not been diminished at all during the past three years of hyper-violence in Mexico? Each year, the death toll rises, each year there is no evidence of any disruption in the delivery of drugs to American consumers, each year the United States asserts its renewed support for this war. And each year, the basic claims about the war go unquestioned.
Let us make this simple: no one knows how many are dying, no one knows who is killing them, and no one knows what role the drug industry has in these killings. There has been no investigation of the dead and no one really knows whether they were criminals or why they died. There have been no interviews with heads of drug organizations and no one really knows what they are thinking or what they are trying to accomplish.
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/37916/who-behind-25000-deaths-mexico
The Pied Pipers of Putinism
Four civic activists and Russia experts in Finland have published a statement condemning the actions of the so-called Finnish "Anti-Fascist" Committee (SAFKA) and Kremlin's parallel propaganda campaign against Finland. The statement's signatories call on Finnish public opinion to give its assessment of the committee's actions. The authors state that Russia's habit of doing politics on the situation of distressed people living in Finland is unacceptable.
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