Jared O. Bell is a former U.S. diplomat and scholar of human rights and transitional justice, dedicated to advancing global equity and systemic reform. In this article he warns of the growing use of doublespeak to twist the language of democracy and human rights into tools of repression, drawing on examples from the U.S. and abroad to show how rhetoric is being weaponized to erode freedoms.
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The Moore Report: War is not the answer
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr., Special to the AFRO My wife, Dana, and I spent 10 days in Israel in 2001. She was a guest of a Baltimore Jewish Council program, and I didn’t want her to go alone. Without getting into the long, tortured history and politics of the Middle East and the war […]