As a new generation of Phillippines leadership tries to target Walden Bello and accuse him of libel, John Cavanagh explained to Common Dreams why “they picked the wrong person to go after.”
His reputation as human rights defender did not protect him from – and indeed may have contributed to – the wrath of right wing judges.
Democrats and Republicans alike have long wished that U.S.-allied Arab states would forever remain docile dictatorships.
Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, dictators are cursing at Tunisia.
Washington has rightly condemned human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. So why not Equatorial Guinea?
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