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The Voice of America is America’s version of the BBC World Service, but while the World Service manages to produce very balanced output, which is as likely to criticise the UK and its government as it is to promote it, every time I have listened to VOA it has presented a very one-sided pro-US stance. I guess that is to be expected, considering its name.

This week, it has posted a story on its site about the latest US government report on Human Rights, and saw no hypocricy in the following statement:

The State Department’s latest report on human rights says rights abuses worsened dramatically in communist-run Cuba last year. (Source: VOA News)

Naturally, the full report doesn’t even talk about the US itself, but then perhaps that, too, should not have been surprising.

Meanwhile,

Pentagon officials have confirmed that Guantanamo (Cuba) detainees may still be kept in detention, even if they are found not guilty by a military tribunal… A lawyer appointed by the US military to represent one of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be charged has also voiced his concern… “This is unlike any system we have seen since at least World War II - except perhaps similar military commissions in other countries that we frequently criticise as fundamentally unfair,” he said. (Source: BBC News)

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