The other day, the US abstained from voting on a UN resolution condemning our decades-long trade embargo on Cuba. The US ambassador to the UN (I think) commented after the vote while we didn't veto the resolution, we are necessarily still concerned about Cuba's human rights abuses. And just to be clear, I'm sure that Cuba does commit human rights abuses.
Meanwhile, in the United States, people continue to be denied access to health care for not having "insurance." People continue to be overwhelmed by the costs of education and the debt they must accumulate to make themselves more competitive in the "job market." And also meanwhile, workers in "right to work" states as well as in the country more generally find themselves at the mercy of a system that denies them the right to bargain collectively with their employers for better working conditions and benefits.
Make no mistake: these are human rights abuses carried out by the United States on a massive scale, and apparently with no end in sight.
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