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Think of us as having two presidents.  One, a fellow named Barack Obama, cuts a distinctly Clark Kent-ish figure.  In presiding over domestic policy, he is regularly thwarted in his desires by the Republicans in Congress and couldn’t until recently get his most basic choices for government positions or the judiciary through the Senate.  For the most minimal look of effectiveness, he has to rely on relatively small gestures by executive order.  In the recent history of the American presidency, he is a remarkably powerless figure presiding over what everyone who is a media anyone claims ... Read more »

Category: Politics | Views: 673 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/02/28 | Comments (0)

Everyone knows that when it comes to abysmal human right records, China is the perpetual whipping boy - in most cases rightfully so - of the US whose own "pristine" record of human rights violations in recent years has also been exposed as mockery, courtesy almost exclusively of one NSA whistleblower. Of course, the US has been far more tacit in how it encroaches on the rights of its own civilians at home, if not so much abroad where US drone strikes have killed and continue to kill countless innocent civilians

Today, China decided to strike back at the US with its own report on US "human rights." In a nutshell, China launches a full frontal attack on the hypocrisy of the US, saying that "posing as "the world judge of human rights," the U.S. government "ma ... Read more »

Category: Politics | Views: 548 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/02/28 | Comments (0)

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