“It takes a lot to get K Street to distance itself from a regime. Egypt’s ruling military junta has manged the feat by investigating a group of American NGO workers for criminal prosecution”:
- With Americans Holed Up in Cairo Embassy, Egypt’s Lobbyists in DC Quit (Christian Science Monitor)
“My 14-year-old son once asked if what he learns at school about rights and liberties was nothing but theory, or a reality that he can believe in. One evening, he concluded that the ‘bad guys [FBI] are using good laws to destroy the lives of good guys.’ Dismayed, he then asked, ‘Is this really America?’ “:
- The FBI Spied on Me and Then Lied About It (Truthout)
“This pernicious law poses one of the greatest threats to civil liberties in our nation’s history“:
- Why the NDAA is Unconstitutional (Counter Punch)
A spokesman insists “a majority of the people of Syria believed in a peaceful struggle against the regime. ‘Some security force members and commanders who couldn’t stand the killings of the people left the military, these people sometimes engaging in armed struggles for self-defense. Apart from these, there are no armed groups in the country” …
… and likewise, in Egypt, FJP leader Mohamed Al-Beltagy, said, “I am against the monopolization of the revolution … when one group claims to speak for the revolution. As long as a demonstration is peaceful, does not disrupt, threaten, burn down or clash, I do not oppose itâ€:
Is the Brotherhood heading “very far from the principles of the movement”?
- Pakistan Repeats Condemnation of Drone Strikes (Voice of America)
Even after the criticism it received for its passivity during the Rwandan genocide, the UN remains reluctant to interfere with  inner state human right violations:
- The United Nations Then and Now; and What It Means for Syria (Council of Foreign Relations)
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