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Sep 12

2013

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Humanitarian Agencies, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

anti-war human rights and liberalism human rights theory Humanitarian Intervention R2P racial justice Right to Protect U.S. attack on Syria U.S. foreign policy U.S. intervention in Syria

Humanitarian Intervention: The Human Rights Gift that Keeps on Giving to U.S. Imperialism

"Humanitarian intervention and the right to protect evoke the unacknowledged white supremacist assumption that the “international community” – read as the governments of the capitalist/colonialist West – has a duty and a right to arrest, bomb, invade, prosecute, sanction, murder and violate international law anywhere on the planet to “save” people based on its own determinations and values."

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Aug 27

2013

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, The War on Libya - There Was No Evidence, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

anti-war Bashar al-Assad chemical weapons Egypt Gulf War humanitarian imperialism Humanitarian Intervention Jean Baudrillard Libya R2P Syria U.S. intervention “Responsibility to Protect”

The “Arab Spring” and the Seduction of the Western Left

"Seduction is not rape. It needs the complicity of its victim. It needs the victim to want to be seduced. Indeed, it is the victim that dictates the terms on which the seduction will take place. The Arab Spring appeared on our corporate TV screens as it did, because this was how the Western Left wanted to be seduced."

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