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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The degree to which the US approach to human rights has shifted during President Obama’s administration is a highly controversial matter. Notwithstanding the extent to which Obama’s administration has followed or changed his predecessor’s lines of action, President Obama’s foreign policies increasingly rely on his rhetorical commitment to the promotion of human rights, freedom and democracy across the world. Whereas the administration of President Bush justified US interventions in a much more overtly imperialist and self-defensive manner, President Obama bases his policies on allegedly humanitarian solidarity with the wellbeing of the Other. […] A critical reader may well ask, does President Obama make the same demands of the Tea Party and the fundamentalist Christian right in his home country? The flagrant gap between the diligent vigilance he selectively shows towards sexual rights violations abroad and the lack of concern about what happens at home is indeed striking.
Orientalism and the modernisation of sexuality.
As Jasbir Puar puts it, ‘homosexual subjects who have limited legal rights in the US civil context gain significant representational currency when situated within the global scene of the war on terror’.
Praise be. Don’t forget to read this.
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The NDAA just keeps getting better and better.
It’s now up in the air whether the Obama administration will actually veto the NDAA. In past weeks, the president has established his firm opposition to the bill that would allow for the “indefinite detention” of terror suspects (though only because he wants the power for himself). Today, the Huffington Post reported that sponsors of the National Defense Authorization Act are “[adding] language on national security waivers and other changes that they [hope] would ensure administration support for the overall bill,” after hearing “personal appeals” from the administration to amend the bill.
Perhaps it’s Obama’s conscience coming to save the day!
Unfortunately, it’s quite the opposite. The administration called for amendments to the bill that would allow for greater “flexibility” for executive, military, and legal procedures in handling cases of terrorism. In short, Obama wants to be able to dictate what he wants the letter of the law to be when it is convenient. Pretty fucking scary if you ask me.
But wait! There’s more!
According to Senator Carl Levin, it was actually the Obama administration that first pressed lawmakers to ”remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to [indefinite detention].” Wonderful.
If this doesn’t look like the prologue to a dystopian novel, I don’t know what would. But the cherry on the top to all of this? FEMA detention camps are being prepared for operation. Surrounding by threatening barbed wire fences, these frightening constructions are reminiscent of the Japanese interment camps set up by Executive Order 9066 in 1942. And it’s believed that these will be used to lock up mass amounts of people in the case of a declaration of martial law.
If this isn’t enough evidence to make you suspicious of what your government is plotting, I don’t know what would suffice.
I’m sorry, but this has me convinced.
This is one of the many reasons I hate Obama and America.
Fuck. FUCK. Get me out of here.
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Libya: US Ambassador Echoes Cecil Rhodes
By Stephen Gowans
Here’s US ambassador to Libya, Gene A. Cretz:
We know that oil is the jewel in the crown of Libyan natural resources, but even in Qaddafi’s time they were starting from A to Z in terms of building infrastructure and other things. If we can get American companies here on a fairly big scale, which we will try to do everything we can to do that, then this will redound to improve the situation in the United States with respect to our own jobs.
New York Times’ reporter David D. Kirkpatrick noted that “Libya’s provisional government has already said it is eager to welcome Western businesses (and)…would even give its Western backers some ‘priority’ in access to Libyan business.”
A bread and butter question. Also a profit-making one.
fuuuuck you economic imperialism. D:
That’s all Libya needs, corporations exploiting people.
No, no, NO!
Libya does not need corporate hooks in it. Let it get up on its feet, and then PLEASE just leave it alone. Stop trying to make every land we go into a colony.
Aside for the history lovers: Hey, anyone remember what our policy was when we occupied Japan after World War II? I think we explicitly ordered the disbanding of zaibutsu (corporation-like structures in Japanese business) because we feared they would gain sway over the government. Or am I remembering incorrectly? I’ll look for sources, but please correct me if I’m wrong.
