Sunday, April 07, 2013

Western NGOs and arms of the US government

"Nossel came to PEN after a year's stint as Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA (AI), in 2012. Before that she served in Hillary Clinton's State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs." "Before working at State, Nossel worked at Human Rights Watch, which has come under increasing criticism for its distorted accounts of the Chavez government in Venezuela and other official enemies of the US. And before that she worked at the UN under Richard Holbrooke as the Clintons masterminded the bombing of Yugoslavia and pushed NATO eastward in violation of assurances given by Reagan to Gorbachev." "Here we behold a revolving door between government and human rights NGOs, much like the one connecting the Pentagon and defense contractors or between regulatory agencies and the corporate entities they are to regulate."