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In addition, she held prominent positions at the Wall Street Journal and McKinsey & Co. It's closely connected to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In other words, she's an imperial insider.
She helped propagate humanitarian intervention and Responsibility to Protect (R2P) notions. In 2004, she coined the term "Smart Power." It calls for military intervention. She said:
"To advance from a nuanced dissent to a compelling vision, progressive policymakers should turn to the great mainstay of twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy: liberal internationalism, which posits that a global system of stable liberal democracies would be less prone to war.""Washington, the theory goes, should thus offer assertive leadership -- diplomatic, economic, and not least, military - to advance a broad array of goals: self-determination, human rights, free trade, the rule of law, economic development, and the quarantine and elimination of dictators and weapons of mass destruction (WMD)."
AI, HRW, ICRC, and other prominent organizations like them shill for power. They're imperial tools. Their stock and trade is deception. They never apologize.
Their reports provide powerful propaganda weapons. Their imperial wars support sanitizes mass deaths and destruction. They're well compensated for their services.
In 2009, allegations surfaced about HRW "trolling for dollars in Saudi Arabia." It said doing so "compromised its integrity." Its Middle East/North Africa division director, Sarah Leah Whitson, responded saying:
HRW "accepts funding from private individuals and foundations the world over, which we never allow to affect the independence of our work."She added that a "Saudi" serves on its Middle East Advisory Committee. "Believe it or not," she said, "some Arabs believe in human rights too."
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