Worlds Most Tyrannical Regime Can Not Stop Babbling About "Human Rights" by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-05-03 at 00:08:47 )

Worlds Most Tyrannical Regime Can Not Stop Babbling About "Human Rights" by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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"America will not back away from our commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms," reads a Wednesday tweet from the presidential Twitter account. "No responsible American president can remain silent when basic human rights are violated."

The tweet, an excerpt from the United States presidents prepared congressional address, was retweeted on Saturday by Secretary of State Tony Blinken with the caption, "We will always defend human rights at home and abroad."

Like all United States secretaries of state, Mr. Blinkens public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is Americas duty to defend those rights.

Which is very silly, considering the fact that the United States government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.

And it is not even close!!

There is no other government that is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it via invasion, proxy wars, blockades, economic warfare, staged coups, and covert operations.

There is no other government on earth whose violence has killed millions of people and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century.

There is no other government waging nonstop wars around the world and dropping scores of bombs per day on human beings in foreign nations in order to perpetuate its iron-fisted domination of our planet.

And it just says so much about who is controlling the dominant narratives in our society that these actions are not considered human rights violations.

Clearly we should all have a human right to not be murdered by explosives dropped from the sky, and we in nations where this does not commonly occur would be very upset if it suddenly began happening to us.

Clearly it is an abuse of human rights to deliberately starve children to death because you do not approve of the people who run things in their part of the world.

Clearly it is an abuse of human rights to turn a nation to rubble and chaos for profit and geostrategic control.

Not a day goes by when the United States government is not doing these things, both directly and through its imperial member states.

Yet the United States secretary of state spends all day tweeting that other governments are guilty of human rights violations. Because, as far as power is concerned, narrative control is everything.

If mass murder is not an abuse of human rights, then "human rights" is a meaningless concept.

But even if bombing campaigns and other acts of military butchery do not transgress your personal definition of human rights, the United States still does not care about human rights.

As journalist Mark Ames recently flagged, a few years ago the imperial narrative managers were very keen on informing us that Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was a despotic human rights abuser, but we have not been hearing much about what an evil brute he is of late.

So what happened??

Did Mr. Duterte cease promoting the extrajudicial killings of drug users and spontaneously transform into a cuddly wuddly human rights advocate??

Of course not.

What happened, as Mr. Ames points out, is that Mr. Duterte ceased publicly toying with the notion of pivoting from Washington,D.C. to Beijing as he had been doing since taking office, shifting to a hard line against China in support of Manilas longtime imperial overlord.

We saw the change in coverage because Washington,D.C. and its imperial spinmeisters only care about human rights abuses insofar as they can be exploited against the few remaining nations like China that have insisted on their own sovereignty instead of allowing themselves to be converted into member states of the United States-centralized empire.

We know this not only from naked eye observations of the empires behavior from year to year, but also because they have blatantly said so.

As I never tire of reminding readers, a leaked 2017 State Department memo spelled out in plain English how the United States only cares about human rights when they can be weaponized against its enemies, and has a standing policy of ignoring them when they are committed by its allies-vassal states.

In December 2017 Politico published an internal memo that had been sent the previous May to then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by virulent neocon Brian Hook.

The memo provided useful insight into what it looks like when a toxic swamp monster orients a political neophyte to the inner mechanics of the empire, explaining the way "human rights" are really just a tool to be cynically leveraged to advance the goal of planetary hegemony.

It reads like an old veteran explaining the backstory to the new guy in the pilot episode of a new TV series.

"In the case of United States allies such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines, the Administration is fully justified in emphasizing good relations for a variety of important reasons, including counter-terrorism, and in honestly facing up to the difficult tradeoffs with regard to human rights," Mr. Hook explained in the memo.

"One useful guideline for a realistic and successful foreign policy is that allies should be treated differently - and better - than adversaries," Mr. Hook wrote. "We do not look to bolster Americas adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to United States relations with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them strategically."

In Imperialist Brain Worms World, "human rights" is nothing other than a propaganda weapon to be used for building antagonistic international coalitions, manufacturing consent for invasions and regime change ops, and spinning the dominant narrative in support of starvation sanctions and world-threatening cold war escalations. It is just mass-scale concern trolling of the most destructive and malignant sort imaginable.

This is what you are feeding into, by the way, when you parrot State Department lines about how horrible and tyrannical United States-targeted governments are.

You are helping to circulate the narratives our rulers are spending billions of dollars circulating, and you are doing it for free.

You are making the jobs of the imperialists that much easier, because you are unwittingly operating as a pro bono Pentagon propagandist.

Do not be a Pentagon propagandist, pro bono or otherwise.

Do not be an imperial concern troll.

Do not let the worst human rights abuser on the face of our planet get away with pretending to support human rights.

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