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[johnny9fingers]

Human Rights Watch are rather worked up about the way the UK, under Tony Blair, and the US under GWB,  have turned blind eyes to all sorts of unpleasant behaviours abroad: supporting regimes that are profoundly non-democratic for convenience.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2250176,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

That's a surprise.
What's also a surprise is that Tony's lead has been followed by Gordon.
Weird that, eh?

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Le plus que ça change...

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

Lying, manipulation, prevarication and obfuscation were always the 'stock in trade' of politicians - ask Senior Nicolo Machiavelli. It's just that in our age, control of mass-media makes it so much easier for them.