Jim Devine wrote:

>[**] Note that the US/NATO standards of "human rights" ignore the right not
>to starve, the right to a job, etc., things that show up in the Universal
>Declaration of Human Rights (cf. in English,
>http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm ). Under the latter (especially
>articles 23 and following), the US/NATO would be attacking countries that
>impose poverty and unemployment on their people as part of IMF/World
>Bank-type structural adjustment programs. 

Or, to reduce the likelyhood of collateral damage, perhaps Madelaine
Albright could just pistol-whip Larry Summers on the Jerry Springer show.


regards,

Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm




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