1/ Vivanco of @hrw explicitly called the US-backed dictatorship of @JeanineAnez a "democracy" in May - six months after it was installed by a coup & already perpetrated many of its worst atrocities. He still calls it an "interim government", and still tries to demonize Morales
2/ Quite a contrast with how Vivanco - for years - CONSTANTLY (as in virtually every time he tweets about #Venezuela or #Nicaragua) explicitly refers to their democratically elected presidents as "dictator" or their governments as "dictatorship".
3/ Vivanco immediately swallowed and regurgitated the OAS's totally discredited electoral fraud claims in October that were used to incite the coup against Morales
5/ As for #Bolivia's justice system. Judges on top court (thanks to changes brought in under Morales) are nominated by national assembly then elected by popular vote to 6 yr terms. Contrasts favorably with US system: lifetime appointments made by 2 factions of the ruling party
6/ BTW Vivanco's idea of a great judiciary is #Ecuador's - the one drastically "reformed" by Moreno so that #Assange's rights under Ecuadorian & int'l law could be trampled by Moreno with total impunity - & led directly to the show trial we are witnessing now in the UK
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This UN report does not show that Hamas-perpetrated rapes took place on Oct 7. It does not even claim they took place if you read the weaselly language carefully. Implicitly (ie in a cowardly manner) the report also rejects the “mass rapes” lie
This UN group covered its ass saying it did no investigation but then proceeded to adopt a low threshold “reasonable grounds to believe” regarding alleged incidents of rape. It collaborated with the “authorities” ( the genocide perps in “Israel”).
The report disregarded its “do no harm” principle regarding Palestinians (the victims of genocide we’ve been witnessing for months). As anyone could predict the report’s weaselly caveats (& some inconvenient conclusions) are being brushed aside by pro-genocide western media
Key facts I got from yesterday's @intifada podcast: 1) The ICC prsoecutor is "totally absent & derelict" in defending Palestinians 2) Even the vile @hrw has had to ask western leaders to hide their pro-genocide nature better than they have been (of course not the way HRW put it)
3) Israeli settlers in W Bank have gone a rampage since Saturday kiling 40 Pesltinians - crimes overshadowed by apartheid Israel's extermination campaign in Gaza 4) Specualtion that Israel's goal is to use "humanitain coridor" as pretext for mass expulsion to Egypt
5) Norway became the first Western country to condemn Israel's siege on Gaza its cutting off of food water electricity fuel medicines and other life essentials to 2.3 million people
So if rightwingers want Orwell for themselves, the left should say "you can have him!". And if we're taught to admire a CIA-promoted, unrepulsed by Hitler "leftist" maybe we should rethink saying Orwell's anti-Stalinism is "commendable" (as Chandler Dandridge said) ....
1/ In #Ecuador , the former Auditor General who was key to the brutal persecution of Correaists since 2017 has now been sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption. Will former President Moreno now be sentenced for "pyschic influence"? Unlikely. Moreno handed over #Assange
2/ Moreno did everything you could expect from a pro-US rightwing lpresident in the Americas. The only remarkable thing about Moreno is his level of cynicism. He won the presidency in 2017 by running as a loyalist to former left wing President Correa! counterpunch.org/2017/08/28/len…
3/ In 2020, I interviewed @ecuarauz about the now convicted Pablo Celi
If you pretend Putin’s legal case for invading Ukraine is remotely as bad a Bush’s case for invading Iraq you’re already helping keep the likes of Bush & Biden from ever paying for their crimes.
Start by looking at a map & compare Iraq - USA distance to Ukraine - Russia
In an interview with Corbyn last year, Bastani asked Corbyn about McDonnell +doing+ the interview (Corbyn said it was a mistake) but Corbyn was NOT asked, nor did Corbyn offer up, any comment on McDonnell's remarks about Blair