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Jason Leopold, Truthout: 'Obama declared the week of December 10th as Human Rights Week, the same week Congress is set to pass the National Defense Authorization Act ... legislation that would grant the president the power to indefinitely imprison without charge ... anyone suspected of terrorist activity in the US. When the US voted in favor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it promised to uphold several ideals, including one that said, 'no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.'

http://www.truth-out.org/obamas-twisted-version-american-exceptionalism-laid-bare/1323961572

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The Myth of American Exceptionalism

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Zinn worries about an administration that deploys Christian zealotry to justify a war against terrorism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8632.htm



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