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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

"Human Rights Watch" exposed!! Hypocrites, doublespeak users and tools of the USA


Just read about Human Rights Watch reporting once again that Syria's Assad has used chemical weapons in April 2014.
From AP via TimesColonist:
Human Rights Watch says there's strong evidence Syrian army used chemical weapons last month.
 BEIRUT - An international human rights group said Tuesday it has strong evidence that Syrian army helicopters dropped bombs carrying chlorine gas on three rebel-held towns last month.
The report by the New-York based Human Rights Watch adds to concerns that chemical weapons are still being used in Syria, eight months after a chemical attack killed hundreds of civilians in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus.
The Syrian government did not immediately comment on the HRW claims. It has accused rebels of using chlorine gas in the past.......

AND, in the midst of of my tsk, tsk-ing, I happen upon this:

From Global Research:
....Nobel Peace Laureates to Human Rights Watch: Close Your Revolving Door to U.S. Government.
The following letter was sent today to Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth on behalf of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Mairead Maguire; former UN Assistant Secretary General Hans von Sponeck; current UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Richard Falk; and over 100 scholars.

Dear Kenneth Roth,

Human Rights Watch characterizes itself as “one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.” However, HRW’s close ties to the U.S. government call into question its independence.

For example, HRW’s Washington advocacy director, Tom Malinowski, previously served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton and as a speechwriter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In 2013, he left HRW after being nominated as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor under John Kerry.

In her HRW.org biography, Board of Directors’ Vice Chair Susan Manilow describes herself as “a longtime friend to Bill Clinton” who is “highly involved” in his political party, and “has hosted dozens of events” for the Democratic National Committee.

Currently, HRW Americas’ advisory committee includes Myles Frechette, a former U.S.ambassador to Colombia, and Michael Shifter, one-time Latin America director for the U.S. government-financed National Endowment for Democracy. Miguel Díaz, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst in the 1990s, sat on HRW Americas’ advisory committee from 2003-11. Now at the State Department, Díaz serves as “an interlocutor between the intelligence community and non-government experts.”

In his capacity as an HRW advocacy director, Malinowski contended in 2009 that “under limited circumstances” there was “a legitimate place” for CIA renditions—the illegal practice of kidnapping and transferring terrorism suspects around the planet. Malinowski was quoted paraphrasing the U.S. government’s argument that designing an alternative to sending suspects to “foreign dungeons to be tortured” was “going to take some time.”.............

Poof! goes  the credibility of the Human Rights Watch, just like the credibility of the United Nations, the USA and NATO.  The propaganda used by all three entities is something extraordinary.  We can be fooled 90% of the time but the 10% when we are not,  should be relegated to pen and paper and spread around.
Go read the whole thing at the link and check out the names of the well over 100 scholars (many of them recognizable names) who have signed that letter.

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