Presidential Pardons and the United States’ Unpardonable Crimes
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By: Belén Fernández
From L-R: Oscar López Rivera, Leonard Peltier, Chelsea Manning, and Mumia Abu-Jamal | Photo: teleSUR
The U.S. has its own fair share of prisoners of conscience, as well as crimes against humanity that it needs to answer for.
Over recent decades, the United States has strived to perfect the art of the double standard in the international arena, with impressive results. For example, it is now known that when other countries allegedly meddle in the internal affairs of sovereign nations it’s called meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, but when the U.S. does it it’s called freedom and democracy promotion.
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