A People(s) Centered Human Rights Critique of “An Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners”
by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, August 256, 2026 A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war. Several commentators have addressed the problem[…]
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