Articles by Keane Bhatt
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(Castellano) La Hipocresía de Human Rights Watch
Keane Bhatt - TeleSur,
17 Feb 2014
¿Por qué Human Rights Watch, a pesar de proclamarse a sí misma como “una de las principales organizaciones independientes del mundo” respecto a los derechos humanos, ha mantenido tan sistemáticamente posturas y políticas semejantes a las de los Estados Unidos? Esta compatibilidad con la agenda del gobierno de EE.UU. no se limita a Latinoamérica.
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Keane Bhatt - NACLA Report,
10 Feb 2014
This affinity for the U.S. government agenda is not limited to Latin America. In the summer of 2013, for example, when the prospect of a unilateral U.S. missile strike on Syria—a clear violation of the UN Charter—loomed large, HRW’s executive director Kenneth Roth speculated as to whether a simply “symbolic” bombing would be sufficient.
→ read full articleHow the Media Sanitize Honduras’s Brutal Regime
Keane Bhatt – North American Congress on Latin America-NACLA,
11 Mar 2013
On the evening of Saturday, September 22 [2012], human rights lawyer Antonio Trejo stepped outside a wedding ceremony to take a phone call. Standing in the church parking lot he was shot six times by unknown assailants. In this insulated world, Honduran victims of economic hardship and state terror remain invisible. Pinochet, the original administrator of shock therapy, distilled the insouciance of today’s intellectual and media culture when, in 1979, he remarked, “I trust the people all right; but they’re not yet ready.”
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy
Keane Bhatt, NACLA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2012
Every so often, world affairs offer us paired examples—two nearly identical instances through which we can better understand the role of powerful institutions, like the media. So when Ecuador granted asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange in mid-August [2012], and then, two weeks later, the United States provided asylum to Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio, the two cases laid bare the hypocrisy of the establishment press.
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