Please don’t miss one of the most astute foreign affairs commentators of our time, Diana Johnstone, and her take on the The Decline of Political Protest, over at Counterpunch. Ms. Johnstone points out the process of the human rights establishment becoming an arm of the US government and but another arrow in the quiver of the “global revolutions” that are the hallmark of US foreign policy. The distortion of language and meaning that comes from the US government literally infiltrating human rights organizations and turning their missions into policy goals of the American state. Writes Johnstone in this highly recommended … Continue reading The Decline of Political Protest