The Imperialist Nature of “Human Rights Abuses”

In propaganda theory when a word has only good connotations like “human rights”, it is a sign that it is a “virtue” word, part of a larger category called “loading the language”. Watch the 2 minute report which reveals that those who stand in judgment of which countries are accused of abuses and which are not accused work for the CIA and NATO. Attacks on human rights abuses are selectively imperialist.

Watch on teleSUR
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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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