Randy Short: US, empire based on military conquest
Press TV has interviewed Randy Short, a US civil rights activist from Washington, and George Lambrakis, a former US diplomat from London, to discuss the alarming record of human rights violations in the United States.
Short says “the United States is an empire,” which is based on political, social, economic and military conquest, adding that the country uses coercion in order to maintain the empire.
Some people such as African Americans, indigenous native Americans and Latino Americans are more likely to be mistreated by an imperial system, he argues, noting that the outcome of the imperial project in the US has been a class system and white supremacy along with “genocide and slavery.”
Pointing out to human rights violations in the US, the political expert maintains that Washington resorts to a dual exceptionalism in order to criticize other countries while the number of human rights abuses in America has increased in recent decades.
Short concludes there are several cases of general repression of poor people in the United States, adding that even white poor people are being beaten, killed and mass incarcerated due to lack of money.
Lambrakis also acknowledges that the United States is “far from” perfect.
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