Introduction For generations the US has proclaimed itself as a beacon of liberty and democracy to the world – and filling its own citizens with this propaganda – but it was instead the world leader…
Tag: Human Rights
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/tsa-naked-scanner-exposed-075/i48e28d4c6bab4f002ccdaaa059f2e678_00a77891.dv.flv] A blogger has shown that all the Transport Safety Association’s controversial nude body scanners and much-too-personal pat downs are not effective in the least, as more and more people in the US speak out…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/libya-rebels-torture-africans-679/if9ef5db15a4a0b9bd2f81798b819b7b2_blacks.dv.flv] A shocking video has appeared on the Internet showing Libyan rebels torturing a group of black Africans. People with their hands bound are shown being locked in a zoo-like cage and allegedly forced to…
The biggest hindrance of the West and the rest of the world in understanding China is the perceived lack of human rights tradition in China. China is an old civilization and a civilization cannot continue…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/us-agenda-middle-east-075/i3edd2c9ededd6193d23869bc70c80b7a_rttv-on-air_2012-02-24_01_04_16.flv] The pressure is ramping up on the Syrian regime as calls for a peacekeeping force to get involved in the crisis intensify. But retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski says such missions…
Big Brother aims to screen all online activity in UK. (AFP Photo / Thomas Coex) British security agencies are pushing for a law, which would allow vast amount of private data to be collected and…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/syria-un-security-council-211/ia41b01ea32eac8bdd8abc1e9d885675a_syria_portnaya_live_0200.flv] A major diplomatic battle over the fate of Syria has begun at the United Nations, with Russia and China the only permanent Security Council members challenging the UN’s right to ‘meddle’ in sovereign states’…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/libya-torture-death-detainees-817/icf8880948c67ab48d2cc72e9e259c244_libya-finoshina-0800.flv] Despite the changes sweeping Libya, violence and bloodshed have not stopped. In shocking revelations, military and security forces stand accused of torturing detainees to death. Rights groups say Libya’s new rulers have not addressed…
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/taliban-marines-urination-scandal-651/i91cf47c31f26ac85b64268ca917ee3e3_davidswansonafghanpisser.flv type=FLV] As Washington attempts to limit the damage done by the now-infamous YouTube video which apparently depicts US marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, critics say such actions are the inevitable outcome…