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Amnesty International

The most prominent names in the western human rights business behave, essentially, as weapons in the imperial arsenal. Amnesty International’s campaign against Syria, analyzed below by Felicity Arbuthnot, is the latest illustration of the organization’s slide from its lofty founding ideals to a role of simple mercenary for empire and sworn enemy of international law.

Suzanne Nossel, former assistant to Richard Holbrooke in his capacity as UN Ambassador and currently Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Assistant for International Organization Affairs, has been selected as the new Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. In the discharge of her duties at the State Department, she diligently exploited human rights to benefit imperial ambitions.
Ms. Nossel had previously worked for Human Rights Watch, as well as for Bertelsmann Media Worldwide and the Wall (...)