English: Amnesty International Sections, 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Link of the day: Amnesty International for long a respectedneutral window on political repression, has fallen under the influence of theUS State department, especially since the appointment of a former StateDepartment official as head of amnesty USA. Read this revealing article by Diana Johnstone, from Counterpunch,called “Pussy Riot and Amnesty International: The Decline of Political Protest.”