Pussy Riot and Amnesty International: The Decline of Political Protest
Submitted on August 28, 2012
By DIANA JOHNSTONE - Counterpunch
Since the end of the Cold War, the work of Amnesty International has become more complicated and more difficult...This has brought an organization whose core is Anglo-American under conflicting pressures...In the case of U.S.-backed “color revolutions”, human rights organizations such as AI and Human Rights Watch are enlisted...to denounce general abuses which may or may not be seriously documented. The United States has increasingly managed to take control of AI for its own foreign policy campaigns.
