Pompeo rolls out a selective vision of human rights — Nahal Toosi

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said property rights and religious liberty are “foremost” among human rights, and that the United States must take inspiration from the Declaration of Independence as it pursues a foreign policy that realistically promotes fundamental freedoms. Has the Secretary of State has been reading Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Rise of Capitalism?The speech leaves me speechless. Is he just off his meds, or is he full on nut job.Or it is just US politics: Pompeo, a former Kansas GOP congressman, is known to be eyeing a potential future presidential run, and his critics immediately pointed out that the speech had plenty of fodder for the electoral base of the Republican Party, including the media-bashing. If this is the case, he is pandering to

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