Archives US Hypocrisy - Page 6 of 12 - New Eastern Outlook

The cruel irony is that we probably need new Church Committee-style investigations more today than ever before, but the political will simply doesn’t exist. Why? Because the surveillance state has become bipartisan orthodoxy.

Weakened by its role in the proxy conflict in Ukraine and hampered by its trade war against China, the United States is moving toward purely rhetorical deterrence without any real evidence of its power.

The harrowing story of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist abducted and imprisoned under dubious charges, exposes the stark realities of injustice, human rights abuses, and systemic hypocrisy within the United States’ treatment of Muslim detainees.