It should not come as a surprise that the West has used the protection of human rights as a cover for its ongoing imperial project for decades in the Global South. And it has relied on a cadre of liberal apologists to provide justification for its aggression. Case in point, Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the UN under the Obama administration.

Power liked to portray herself as a champion of human rights. She skyrocketed to fame for her book “America and the Age of Genocide,” where she lambasted the Clinton administration for downplaying and ignoring the Rwandan genocide. But her role as the director of USAID under Joe Biden and during Israel’s genocide in Gaza has revealed her for the grifting ghoul she actually is.

Despite backlash from her staff, she refused to condemn Israel’s horrendous siege on the open air concentration camp that is Gaza. Even as entire families were erased. Even as images of blown up or bloated children flooded newsfeeds. Even as evidence mounted of Israeli war crimes. Power refused to call for a ceasefire. Instead, she parroted Israeli state lies which sought to justify the total destruction and mass starvation policies of the Zionist state.

After leaving USAID, Power seemed to want to whitewash her role in the genocide by lamenting: “I wish we could have ended the war in Gaza far sooner… and done more to end this hell that the people of Gaza have experienced.” But Power did not seem to have any such misgivings when she actually had influence over US policy.

None of this is new for the “human rights superstar.” A series of leaked files revealed recently that Power was colluding with Israeli diplomats to polish the apartheid, now genocidal, state’s global image and help them gain access to coveted UN committees as far back as 2013.

A correspondence between Power and Israeli ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, in November of that year revealed how the US ambassador assisted Israel’s admittance to the UN’s Western European and Others Group (WEOG). This helped Israel gain diplomatic cover while glossing over its egregious human rights record at the time.

Power was rewarded for her efforts with high paid speaking engagements. She would go on to scold the UN for its “anti-Israel” bias, while making no mention of its horrendous treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories, or its belligerent posture toward its neighbours in the region. Instead, she relied on questionable intelligence from the apartheid state to saber rattle on its behalf. And during the murderous rampage on Gaza in 2014, Power ran diplomatic cover for Israel as it slaughtered over 2000 civilians.

In 2016, Power, asked the Russians if they had any “shame” regarding their bombing campaign of East Aleppo, Syria. And this revealed her staggering hypocrisy. Russia deserved to be condemned for its military forays, but Power never condemned the US for its destruction of Iraq or Libya. And she never condemned its ally, Israel, for its ongoing project of annihilation of the Palestinians.

Indeed, Power’s service to American Empire, under the guise of humanitarianism, was lauded. That same year, she accepted the American Academy of Berlin’s Henry A. Kissinger Prize. And she was handed the blood-soaked award from none other than the murderous monster himself. Despite her damning criticisms of Kissinger in her books “A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” and “Sergio: One Man’s Fight to Save the World,” she was able to overlook his crimes and the mountain of corpses he stood atop for the shiny statuette.

Power is a visual aid to the duplicity and corruption of the American liberal elite, whose values always crumble under the weight of their fealty to the American imperial project. She is an emblem of the cruel and mendacious excuse it uses for every one of its wars or covert operations: “humanitarian intervention.” And for that, she has been handsomely rewarded.

Kenn Orfanos, November 2025