[news] The Useful Idiots of Empire: Humanitarian Wars and Associated Delusions

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The adoption of the humanitarian war rationale has had a particularly damaging effect on what remains of the Left in Western countries; one of the basic tenets for Leftists should have been to oppose imperial wars, and it has been disconcerting to witness the adoption of the human rights lingo to...co-cheerlead wars...Jean Bricmont's book, _Humanitarian Imperialism_, is a clearly written guide through this moral maze...and an antidote to the principal malaise afflicting our times: hypocrisy.

  


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