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Irony Alert: U.S. Calls On Russia To Respect Peaceful Protests

December 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON — The United States called Friday on both Russian authorities and protesters to remain peaceful as opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin prepared major weekend demonstrations against his rule.

Putin has angrily accused the United States of inciting the protests after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised concerns about the fairness of parliamentary elections that Putin’s party won but with a reduced majority.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the United States supported the right to peaceful protest in Russia as it does “anywhere in the world.”

“We expect that those demonstrations will remain peaceful on behalf of all parties, whether they’re the demonstrators or whether they are those keeping social order,” she said.

“So our expectation is that if there are protests, that they will be peaceful and that they will be allowed to proceed peacefully,” Nuland said.

The State Department earlier denied Putin’s allegations that the United States has funded Russians so that they would challenge him, saying that Washington supports groups that work for democratic governance in general.

Russia’s opposition is organizing rallies in at least 15 major cities including Moscow, where the demonstration is expected to draw some 30,000 people under the slogan “For Fair Elections.”

 

Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/09/irony-alert-u-s-calls-on-russia-to-respect-peaceful-protests/

 

 

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US Internet Freedom Hypocrisy

December 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on a world which respects Internet freedom as the US Justice Department targets WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

The Justice Department is pressing the court to require Twitter to turn over private information about the use of its services by three WikiLeaks supporters.

The US champions a free flow of information, free speech and a free Internet, until it is no longer in their favor.

America calls for a respect for the rights of others, their privacy and free expression, but goes after US citizen’s cell phones, computer activity and other personal data.

“Our commitment to Internet freedom is a commitment ot the rights of people, and we are matching that with our actions,” Clinton stated in a her speech.

Former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts said the US government is a blatant public hypocrite and has been for a long time.

“It’s [US government] always lecturing everybody else, but it never follows its own advice,” Roberts said.

He argued the US has actively trampled on the civil liberties of its own people under the auspice of the War on Terror, yet at the same time the government lectures others on responsibilities to protect freedoms.

“We are really the worst offender,” he added. “This should show the world what a hypocrite the United States is!”

Roberts said, as an American, he is embarrassed by the blatant hypocrisy his government represents.

On one had the US has worked to support Twitter and Facebook use in Egypt, and now Iran having lunched Twitter sites in local languages.

America likes to use technology to undermine others. But as soon as the tables turn they flip their stance, such as the case of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Pfc. Bradley Manning.

He argued the US wants to terrify the rising new breed of Internet journalism, using fear to shut them up.

“Bradley Manning’s civil rights are being blatantly violated by the United States government, Roberts said. “Yet nothing is done about it.”

Source: http://rt.com/usa/news/usa-internet-freedom-hypocrisy/

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Guantanamo Hypocrisy

December 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As America speaks out on human rights violations worldwide and attempts to “spread democracy,” the States is becoming the culprit of the very violations it so often condemns.

As detainees say goodbye to Gitmo, first-hand accounts of the atrocities they experienced at the hands of America are surfacing. According to investigative reporter Jason Leopold, “It’s one of the issues that no one seems to want to mention.”

Even if that’s the case, detainees are coming forward to describe what they endured and expose the hypocrisy of America and Leopold says “What’s really important is this isn’t going away.”

The US, says Leopold, are “Vilifying other countries, other governments for human rights abuses…in many cases the same types of human rights violations” that America itself is guilty of.

“I can’t tell you how many press releases I’ve read from the State Department in the past three months talking about sanctions and human rights abuses that match exactly what the Bush administration had done to detainees,” he says. The Obama administration isn’t being any different, and as America fails to hold itself accountable, others are crying “hypocrite.”

“I think other countries are looking at us at being hypocritical,” he says. “They don’t really believe the rhetoric coming out of President Obama’s mouth and that goes for Secretary of State Hilary Clinton as well.”

And why isn’t America stepping up for their own atrocities? “Apologizing would perhaps be accepting some sort of complicit,” says Leopold. “It would be acknowledging that detainees have in fact been tortured.”

And that, he says, “is something we know that this administration has refused to do.”

 

Source: http://rt.com/usa/news/rights-violations-human-america/

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