Barack Obama carries on his campaign to gut the democracy promotion and human rights efforts that had been pushed by Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. While he offers tacit support for Hugo Chavez and seems intent on supporting their would be dictator and denying the Honduran people the rights guaranteed them by their own Constitution, his State Department also wields the axe in one area of the federal budget: an Iran human rights watchdog group has had its funding cut to zero by the State Department:From a piece by Farah Stockman in the Boston Globe:   For the past five years, researchers in a modest office overlooking the New Haven green have carefully documented cases of assassination and torture of democracy activists in Iran. With more than $3 million in grants from the US State Department, they have pored over thousands of documents and Persian-language press reports and interviewed scores of witnesses and survivors to build dossiers on those they say are Iran's most...(Read Full Post)