The World’s Right-Handed and Left-Handed Torturers By Thalif Deen Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/the-worlds-right-handed-and-left-handed-torturers/ UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 2025 (IPS) - Jeanne Kirkpatrick, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, once made a highly debatable distinction between “friendly” right-wing “authoritarian” regimes (which were mostly U.S. and Western allies) and “unfriendly” left-wing “totalitarian” dictatorships (which the U.S. abhorred). Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.