Thanks for sharing, your thoughts are aligned with mine. I too am really surprised and disappointed by this. You can't love people but love their political alignments more, and call yourself human rights. It doesn't sit right.
In Iran, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has become the go-to source for Western media. What they don't disclose is that they were bankrolled by NED (which does covert ops like the CIA), for over $900,000 in 2024 alone. HRF might not receive directly from gov't but funds could be shell companies, individuals with specific interests, or genuinely kind donors who had no idea.
The irony is Alex understands how economic colonialism works. He wrote essays exposing it. But HRF's political alignment follows the same selective pattern he critiques.
Human rights are universal. Alliances are political. This feels misleading.
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2026-03-02 23:17:01 UTC
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