How Human Rights Sell War
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By: teleSUR
Amnesty International campaign poster issued during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. | Photo: Links.
teleSUR spoke to author Jean Bricmont on how the industry and ideology of human rights has been used to justify imperialism and undermine the European and North American left.
teleSUR: Your book “Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War” was released in English back in 2006 following the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and the British, so for those not familiar with the book could you briefly outline the contents and the argument and tell us what exactly inspired you to write it?
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