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Taliban Cops vs American Cops, Who’s Worse?

Rall, Ted
http://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/23/taliban-cops-vs-american-cops-whos-worse/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  23/09/2021
Year Published:  2021   First Published: 
Resource Type:  Article

Criticizing how a nation treats its prisoners or responds to internal dissent implies that the behaviour being discussed falls outside international norms. If your own country does the same thing and you don’t mention it, your lie of omission strips your story of context.

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Violent suppression of peaceful protests should be covered and widely circulated, as was as the story—although it's not hardly surprising that a brand-new revolutionary government might not be terribly tolerant of criticism less than two weeks after seizing power. The same goes for the brutal mistreatment of reporters.

Compared with the terrifying arsenal of devices wielded by the police and other officials against peaceful marchers who dare to protest the policies of the two-centuries-old United States of America, those Afghan women got off easy.

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