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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