[R-G] The Project For A New American Humanitarianism: Olympian Ambitions from Darfur to Tibet and Beijing

[Anthony Fenton]

The Project For A New American Humanitarianism
Olympian Ambitions from Darfur to Tibet and Beijing
by Michael Barker

(Swans - August 25, 2008)   This essay examines the role of the  
Project for a New American Humanitarianism in the ongoing human rights  
offensive that is currently being waged against China. While there is  
some awareness, in progressive circles, of the work of antidemocratic  
think tank and neoconservative Project for a New American Century  
(PNAC) the majority of the public remain in the dark about its  
machinations. Another equally sinister, but highly visible group that  
obtains little critical coverage -- in even the alternative media --  
is a coalition that might be loosely referred to as the Project for a  
New American Humanitarianism (PNAH). (1) Both groups promote America's  
imperial interests, but their activities differ in critical respects.  
PNAC favours military domination, or militaristic imperialism, which  
has been zealously promoted by a three-part coalition comprised of  
"aggressive nationalists..., Christian Zionists of the religious  
Right, and Israel-centred neo-conservatives." In contrast, the loose  
collection of concerned activists that coalesce within the Project for  
a New American Humanitarianism help sustain imperialism by both  
providing it with "moral cover, and sanctioning the abandonment of the  
rule of law in the purported interest of human rights." Ironically  
PNAH, like PNAC, is well supported by neo-conservatives.

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