Tony Cartalucci – Courtesy Infowars.com

August 22, 2012ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Mistakenly considered by many as the final word on human rights worldwide, it might surprise people to know that Amnesty International is in fact one of the greatest obstacles to real human rights advocacy on Earth. In its most recentƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 2012 annual report (page 4, .pdf), Amnesty reiterates one of the biggest lies it routinely tells:

ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Amnesty International is funded mainly by its membership and public donations. No funds are sought or accepted from governments for investigating and campaigning against human rights abuses. Amnesty International is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚

This is categorically false. Amnesty international is indeed funded and run by not only governments, but also immense corporate-financier interests, and is not only absolutely entwined with political ideology and economic interests, it is an essential tool used for perpetuating just such interests.

Image: From Amnesty International USAƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s website, ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Free Pussy Riot.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Help Amnesty International send a truckload of balaclavas to Putin.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ This childish stunt smacks of US State Department-funded Gene Sharp antics ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” and meshes directly with the US State DepartmentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s goal of undermining the Russian government via its troupeƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ of US-funded ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-opposition activistsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ including ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Pussy Riot.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ That Amnesty is supporting the US State DepartmentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s agenda should be no surprise, it is run literally by theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ US State DepartmentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢sƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organizations,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Suzanne Nossel.

Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s Funding

Finding financial information on Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s website is made purposefully difficult ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” specifically to protect the myth that the organization is ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-independent.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ Like any organized criminal operation, Amnesty separates compromising financial ties through a series of legal maneuvers and shell organizations. Upon AmnestyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s website it states:

ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-The work carried out through Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s International Secretariat is organised into two legal entities, in compliance with United Kingdom law.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  These are Amnesty International Limited (ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-AILƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚) and Amnesty International Charity Limited (ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-AICLƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚). Amnesty International Limited undertakes charitable activities on behalf of Amnesty International Charity Limited, a registered charity.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚

And it is there, at Amnesty International Limited, where ties to both governments and corporate-financier interests are kept. On page 11 of Amnesty International LimitedƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢sƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 2011 Report and Financial Statement (.pdf)ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ it states (emphasis added):

ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-The Directors are pleased to acknowledge the support of theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Oak Foundation,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Open SocietyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Georgia Foundation, theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Vanguard Charitable Endowment Programme,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Mauro Tunes and American Jewish World Service. TheƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ UK Department for International Development(Governance and Transparency Fund) continued to fund a four year human rights education project in Africa. TheƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ European Commission (EuropeAid)ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ generously awarded a multi-year grant towards Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s human rights education work in Europe.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚

Clearly then, Amnesty does take money from both governments and corporate-financier interests, one of the most notorious of which, Open Society, is headed byƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ convicted financial criminal George Soros. In March, 2012, it was reported that a BloombergƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s report, ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Soros Loses Case Against French Insider-Trading Conviction,ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ indicated that an appeal based on a ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-human rightsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ violation against Wall Street speculator George Soros had been rejected by the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-European Court of Human Rights.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚

Soros, whose Open SocietyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ also funds Human Rights WatchƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ and a myriad of other ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-human rightsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ advocates, literally attempted to use the WestƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s human rights racket to defend himself against charges of financial fraud in perhaps the most transparent illustration of just how this racket operates.

Soros, who wasƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ convicted and fined for insider trading in 2002ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ regarding French bank SociƒÆ’†’ƒ”š‚©tƒÆ’†’ƒ”š‚© GƒÆ’†’ƒ”š‚©nƒÆ’†’ƒ”š‚©rale shares he bought in 1988, has built an empire out of obfuscating global criminal activity with the cause of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-human rights.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ His support, as well as that of the British and European governments, of Amnesty International aims solely at expanding this obfuscating.

Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s Leadership

AmnestyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s leadership is also telling of its true agenda. Suzanne Nossel,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, for instance wasƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ drawn directly from the US State DepartmentƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” again, utterly contradicting AmnestyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s claims of being ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-independentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ of governments and corporate interests. Nossel continued promoting US foreign policy, but simply behind a podium with a new logo, Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s logo, attached to it. Amnesty InternationalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s website specifically mentions NosselƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s role behind US State Department-backed UN resolutions regarding Iran, Syria, Libya, and Cote dƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢Ivoire.

Image:ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Same lies, different podium. Suzanne Nossel previously of the US State Department, is now executive director of Amnesty International USA. Her primary function of dressing up aspirations of corporate-financier global hegemony as ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-human rights advocacyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ has not changed.

ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚¦.

It has been documented at great length how these issues revolve aroundƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ a decades long plan devised by corporate-financier interestsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ to divide, destroy and despoil these nations who are seen as obstacles to US global hegemony. In the case of Syria specifically, it was revealed that the current ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-human rightsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ catastrophe stems back toƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ a malicious 2007 conspiracyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ documented by ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-New YorkerƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ journalist Seymour Hersh, between the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia which sought to purposefully fund, arm, and deploy sectarian extremists to undermine and overthrow the Syrian government ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” thisknowing full well the human tragedy that would unfold.

NosselƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-contributionsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ then are simply to dress up naked military aggression and the pursuit of global corporate-financier hegemony with the pretense of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-human rightsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ advocacy.

A glance at AmnestyUSA.org reveals that each and every front the US State Department is currently working on and has prioritized is also coincidentally prioritized by Amnesty International. This includes rallies and campaigns to supportƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ US State Department-funded Russian opposition groups(currently fixated on ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Pussy RiotƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-), undermining the Syrian government, toppling theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ government of Belarus, and supporting theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Wall Street-London created Aung San Suu KyiƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ of Myanmar (still called by its British Imperial nomenclature of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-BurmaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ by Suu Kyi herself).

Amnesty International Betrays Real Human Rights Advocacy

Amnesty does indeed cover issues that are critical of US foreign policy, toward the bottom of their websites and at the back of their reports. Likewise, the corporate-media selectively reports issues that coincide with their interests while other issues are either under-reported or not reported at all. And it is precisely because Amnesty covers all issues, but selectively emphasizes those that are conducive to the interests of immense corporate-financiers that makes Amnesty one of the greatest impediments to genuine human rights advocacy on Earth.

Images: Manufacturing Dissent. ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Free Pussy RiotƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ (above). Ironically,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ FIDH is directly fundedƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ by the US State Department via theƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Neo-Con lined US National Endowment for Democracy (NED)ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ as well as George SorosƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ Open Society. ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Russia: Stop Arms Transfer to Syria!ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ (below). If the US State Department wants it, be sure that US State Department-run Amnesty International will stage a demonstration for it ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” and regardless of size or legitimacy of the demonstration, expect the corporate-media to make it headline news.

ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚¦.

Ordinary people are given the false impression that ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-someone is watching outƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ for human rights abuses, when in reality, all Amnesty and other organizations like it are doing, is managing public perception selectively of global human rights abuses, fabricating and/or manipulating many cases specifically to suit the agenda of large corporate-financier interests. This can be seen when entire reports out of Amnesty or Human Rights Watch consist solely of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-witness reportsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ compiled from accounts of US-backed opposition groups.

In the rare instance that a report includes references to actual photographic, video, or documented evidence, such as Human Rights WatchƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢sƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 2011 ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Descent into ChaosƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ (.pdf)ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ report, deceptive language is intentionally included along with throwaway passages to enable selective reporting and spinning by not only the Western corporate media, but by a myriad of faux-NGOs funded and run by Amnesty International and Human Rights WatchƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s sponsors and affiliates. The Descent into Chaos report, regarding Thailand, was promply and amply spun and manipulated byƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ US State Department-funded faux-NGO and ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-rights advocateƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ Prachatai.

When people erroneously believe that credible organizations are handling ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-rights advocacyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ they will not only become complacent, they will become negligent of their own responsibilities to objectively examine potential abuses and speak out against them. Wall Street and LondonƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s corporate-financier interests have filled a void -ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  that should be occupied by their greatest opponents ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” instead with a large advocacy racket of their own creation. Not only are they given a free pass to abuse human rights globally, theyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ve actually used their controlled opposition to attack their opponents.

It is clear that Amnesty International is by no means an ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-advocateƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ of human rights, but rather an affront to human rights advocacy. It goes without saying that it should be boycotted out of existence and at the very least, identified as illegitimate and fraudulent ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” from its funding to its compromised leadership.

Additionally, we the people must tackle real violations of each others rights at the grassroots ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” because it is absolute folly to believe that global spanning organizations, funded by corporate-financiers, echoing the agenda of governments driven by special interests has our best interests and rights in mind.

http://www.infowars.com/amnesty-international-is-us-state-department-propaganda/