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CHINA went head-to-head with Washington yesterday as it released a report on US human rights hypocrisy.
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014 was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, in response to 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which was issued by the US State Department on Thursday.
Washington accused Beijing of repressing opposition activists and holding tens of thousands of political prisoners.
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
While ordinary Americans were suffering in the wake of 2005’s deadly hurricane, the Bush administration was more concerned with maintaining its anti-Cuba stance than with saving lives, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS