[2/2] … actions, and sometimes unjust US actions, helped bring about this result does not make it a good thing. Iran is a cruel, repressive state, much like Russia and China which are its allies. We face, this time for real, an "axis of evil."
Canadian man who claimed wildfires were a federal conspiracy admits arson. That demonstrates the moral values of right-wing conspiracy thinkers in a nutshell. They treat their country and its people as "the enemy", and try to harm them both by any possible means.
[2/2] … influenced. With all the meddling that Putin directs in Russian elections, there is no space for anyone else to meddle. Meanwhile, people who criticize Putin are likely to end up in prison. This sort of lie is typical of right-wingers. Whatever accusation could be validly made against them, they make it against their critics, because the truth is of no significance to them.
Putin's official accuses US of plan to meddle in its election. The first level of lie in this accusation is the assumption that Russia is free enough that its elections could be …
[2/3] … actually win. (The US government likewise assumed it would eventually win in Vietnam and Afghanistan, but it never did.) The governments of El Salvador and Ecuador may not win either. Haiti's government eventually surrendered to gang rule. I don't know what these governments should do. Maybe it is hopeless. But it seems to me that this war is an extension of the US "war on drugs". If the US switches to a harm-reduction policy, with decriminalization and treatment, it could reduce the …
Several countries in Latin America are tossing human rights on the garbage pile in trying to defeat gangs by making war on them in parallel with arbitrary imprisonment of suspects. This war of repression looks like "the only way" for the government to end gang violence, but that assumes the government will win the war — and they don't seem to …
Human Rights Watch warns that the Taliban's bar on women as teachers means unqualified men now teach boys, fewer subjects are taught and beatings of students are routine.
