Los derechos humanos bajo el socialismo del Siglo XXI (Spanish Edition)

Los derechos humanos bajo el socialismo del Siglo XXI (Spanish Edition)
Hugo Acha (Author), Jorge Zavala (Author), Janisset Rivero (Author), Guillermo Lousteau (Introduction)

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Human Rights

El Interamerican Institute for Democracy organizó, en diciembre de 2012, un panel para discutir la situación de los Derechos Humanos en Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia y Venezuela, los países bajo el Socialismo del Siglo XXI.
En estas cinco ponencias veremos que lo que falla no es el catálogo de derechos, sino que se ha desarticulado el sistema institucional que permitiría garantizarlos. Ya no hay poder legislativo separado, ni poder judicial independiente que vele por las garantías individuales, incluyendo las del debido proceso. Ni tampoco hay una prensa libre que pueda denunciar esas violaciones, y el uso político de la justicia es ya un lugar común.
El segundo gran problema es la ideologización de los derechos humanos. Su universalidad es una característica esencial, y sin embargo, pareciera que esos derechos sólo se aplican a un sector, y no se reclaman o ponen en evidencia, cuando afectan a otros sectores.

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• Published on: 2013-02-01
• Released on: 2013-02-01
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Them: Adventures with Extremists

Them: Adventures with Extremists
by Jon Ronson (Author, Narrator)
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Human Rights

America's Forgotten History, Part 2: Rupture

America's Forgotten History, Part 2: Rupture
Mark David Ledbetter (Author)
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Human Rights

From its small government, non-aggressive, republican beginnings, America has become a garrison state devoted to remaking the world in its own image. While Republicans and Democrats quibble over the details of policing the world and running a nanny state, Ledbetter looks at another way, a forgotten way, the way invented during a tiny window of opportunity by the Enlightenment philosophers who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. America’s Forgotten History is their story, a story once well-known but now lost to both historians and the general populace in the course of America’s mad rush into the future. Part One, Foundations, examined the Enlightenment underpinnings of the American system, the colonial period, the Revolution and Constitution, and the first generation of presidents. Part Two, Rupture, continues the story up through Lincoln and the Civil War.

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• Published on: 2010-04-12
• Released on: 2010-04-12
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Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community's Assault On Truth

Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community's Assault On Truth
Mark Howard (Author, Illustrator)
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Human Rights

When Fox News debuted it was crafted from scratch to be a partisan outlet for right-wing propaganda and a platform for advancing a conservative agenda. Its Internet community web site, Fox Nation, serves as the online gathering place for Fox viewers to absorb and spread the aggregated disinformation and conspiracy theories hatched by Fox News.

The statement of purpose posted on the Fox Nation web site says that it is “committed to the core principles of tolerance, open debate, civil discourse, and fair and balanced coverage of the news.” However, a cursory glance at the site reveals that they have fallen wide of their stated purpose by several light years.

This first volume of Fox Nation vs. Reality is a collection of some of the blatant falsehoods found on Fox Nation. These are not mere differences of opinion or discussions that might have varying degrees of perspective. They are obvious, provable, out and out lies. They are manifestations of a disconnect with the real world. But they are not the result of psychosis or mistake. They are deliberate and purposeful. They are aimed at an ill-informed audience that is only interested in having their prejudices affirmed. And Fox News is only too happy to accommodate them.

In Fox Nation vs. Reality you will find a compilation of articles originally published on the media analysis web site News Corpse. They provide an eye-opening look into the lengths that committed propagandists will go in order to fabricate an alternative political reality. And remember that Fox Nation is not some remote outpost on the Internet Superhighway. It is an integral part of Fox News whose executives are wholly responsible for the stain it produces on journalism.

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• Published on: 2012-11-15
• Released on: 2012-11-15
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Inventing Human Rights: A History

Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt (Author)
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Human Rights

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review

How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals far and wide. Hunt also shows the continued relevance of human rights in today’s world.

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• Published on: 2008-04-17
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 8.20" h x .70" w x 5.50" l, .48 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Hopes and Prospects

Hopes and Prospects
Noam Chomsky (Author)
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Human Rights

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forwardAin the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest "real progress toward freedom and justice."

Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.

"This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the worldAto millions, I suspectAfor the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him." AJohn Pilger

"In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism...the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us." APublisher's Weekly

"Chomsky’s commentary is razor sharp and offers a compendium of facts that make a well-supportedAand undoubtedly controversialAclaim of the incongruity between US actions and the democratic ideals it professes....A valuable resource for both academics and everyday concerned citizens." AForeWord

Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books are The New York Times bestsellers Hegemony or Survival and Failed States.

• Rank: #138250 in Books
• Published on: 2010-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.43" h x .87" w x 5.63" l, .96 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons

Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons
Nancy Kurshan (Author)

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Human Rights

The men held captive in the Marion control unit lived in an 8 x 10 foot cell for about 23 hours a day, seven days a week. There was no contact with other human beings. There was no way to know when it would end. Days, months, years would go by... Out of Control: A Fifteen-Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons tells the inspiring story of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). Founded in 1985 to organize against control unit prisons and related inhumane practices at the notorious federal prison in Marion, Illinois, the committee's work and influence spread nationwide, even as the practices at Marion became widespread in many other prisons in the U.S. and internationally. Written in a very accessible and eloquent style by Nancy Kurshan, a CEML co-founder and leading activist throughout its history, the book recounts how the committee led and organized hundreds of educational programs and demonstrations in many parts of the country and sought to build a national movement to expose and abolish 'end-of-the-line' prisons. Along the way the Committee wrote thousands of pages of educational and agitational literature, and developed new ways of analyzing and fighting against the 'prison industrial complex.'

• Rank: #65327 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages