United Nations
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Trump at the United Nations By Kim Petersen
Critical thinking demands an analysis of Trump’s words that is not provided by a cursory reading of the speech transcript, TV video coverage, or corporate media reporting. It is a given of corporatism that the US is unquestioningly not only great and good but the best of the best. Donald Trump would beg to differ,… Continue reading
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Unmasked: Trump Doctrine vows carnage for new axis of evil By Pepe Escobar
This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of “principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller. One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in, slowly. The president… Continue reading
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UN Security Council Resolution 2375 on North Korea: Preparation for War? By Carla Stea
There is now a discernible pattern to US manipulation of the UN Security Council when it wants UN endorsement for US-NATO acts of aggression. It is a formula which led to the destruction of Iraq and Libya, and in 1950-1953 led to the destruction of North Korea and most of South Korea. This deadly trajectory… Continue reading
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Mayhem! what we are we doing? Adding political to military strikes.“UN, US, UK devastation, complicity and double standards”
These words of journalist Felicity Arbuthnot reverberated as the writer belatedly discovered Josie Ensor’s report from Istanbul that a US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State fighters. Some eight families were hit as they tried to flee in one of the single deadliest… Continue reading
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The UN Security Council Has Become A “Rubber Stamp” To Wage US-NATO’s Illegal Wars. Disastrous Results of UNSC “Military Authorizations” By Carla Stea
Since 1991, and United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, which authorized the US-UK attack on Iraq, which, in the words of Marti Ahtissari “destroyed the infrastructure necessary to support human life in Iraq,” the United Nations has been dragged into destructive “adventures” that have literally created the crises it is now trying to resolve. Continue reading
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Ukraine and the MH17 Crash: Washington’s Use of the UN Security Council as an Instrument of Propaganda, “Regime Change” and War By Carla Stea
The agenda of the Malaysia draft resolution S/2015/562 was transparent, and any suggestion of impartiality was ludicrous. The war drums were beating, and without trial, without the presumption of innocence, and without any impartial investigation into the actual perpetrators of the internecine warfare which is now destroying Ukraine, Russia is condemned as the guilty party,… Continue reading
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Haitian lawyers condemn impunity for Sri Lankan soldiers raping children in Haiti
We shall not forget: Sri Lankan soldiers were found to have been systematically raping Haiti women and girls, some as young as 7 years old We shall not forget that rape is a war crime in military conflicts and that the UN gives itself a chapter seven combat mission in Haiti. If the UN had… Continue reading
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“Pardon Us For Our Country’s Existence in the Middle of Your Military Bases” – Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s Speech at the UN By Carla Stea
In a courageous and brilliant speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pierced the veil of obfuscation that characterizes too many speeches at the United Nations, and delivered a scathing denunciation of Western imperialism, imperialism that can only be accurately described as global theft. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Ban Ki-Moon Worked with Israel to Undermine UN Report
The General Secretary of United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-Moon collaborated in secret with Israel and the United States to weaken the effects of a Board of Inquiry’s report accusing Israel of human rights violations in Gaza in Dec. 2008 – Jan. 2009. Continue reading
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The United Nations is Complicit in the Massacre of Civilians in Ukraine By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Julie Lévesque
In what at first appears to be a neutral statement on the violence in Ukraine, urging “all sides to put down their arms” and condemning “strong hate speech from all sides”, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay tacitly placed the blame on the people of Donetsk and Lugansk, who are the unspoken victims of… Continue reading
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Justice Slaughtered by Politics: PCHR Shocked by Israel's Election by UN General Assembly as Vice-Chair of UN Special Committee on Decolonization
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is shocked by Israel’s election as Vice-Chairperson of the Special Political and Decolonization/4th Committee in the UN General Assembly. PCHR emphasizes that this step constitutes a shock to the human conscience and justice everywhere, and denial and disregard for the suffering of millions of Palestinians for more than… Continue reading
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Justice Slaughtered by Politics: PCHR Shocked by Israel’s Election by UN General Assembly as Vice-Chair of UN Special Committee on Decolonization
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is shocked by Israel’s election as Vice-Chairperson of the Special Political and Decolonization/4th Committee in the UN General Assembly. PCHR emphasizes that this step constitutes a shock to the human conscience and justice everywhere, and denial and disregard for the suffering of millions of Palestinians for more than… Continue reading
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Video: Syria’s Press Conference the United Nations Doesn’t Want You To See
Five minutes into the opening comments of Syrian Ambassador Bashar Al-Jaafari, the UN webcast cut off. The thousands of journalists, political analysts, and others who view UN webcasts each day from all over the world were denied the ability to watch the press conference, and hear what was said. This is not the first time… Continue reading
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Laurent Fabius and Justice By Thierry Meyssan
Laurent Fabius’ proposal to the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in Syria was rejected by the UN. Indeed, hidden behind the appearance of justice, the ICC is a tool of Western imperialism. Its procedure is grotesque, it does not hesitate to invent imaginary crimes to convict defendants and it participates in NATO propaganda operations.… Continue reading
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Syria: The UN is Turning Butchers into Partners for Peace By Ali Mallah
The UN now appeals for help to deal with the refugee crisis in Syria. Two of the main perpetrators of the crisis, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have been asked to provide help by the organization. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, France, the UK and the USA are the same countries that brought death and destruction to… Continue reading
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Russia: Aug. 21 Syria Chemical Attack Was 'Staged'
Russia’s ambassador told the council that the dramatic Aug. 21 attack that led to Syria agreeing to give up its chemical stockpile was “staged” and a “large-scale provocation.” Continue reading
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Syria's chemical weapons: is the UN exceeding its mandate? By Bob Rigg
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should be a technical agency of the UN. But it has arguably become a piece in a geo-political chess game dominated by the US, invited into Syria to act in contravention of its remit. Continue reading
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US plots to kill idea of global digital privacy at the UN – report
The United States is silently watering down the text of an anti-spying UN resolution introduced by Germany and Brazil in order to ensure any extra-territorial violation of online privacy remains legal, according to a document obtained by The Cable. Continue reading
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Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations By John Marion
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims… Continue reading
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NYT's OPCW "He Said, She Said" Reporting Misses Major Judgement
In 2002 José Bustani, the then head of the now Nobel prized Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was fired because his insistence on bringing Iraq into the Chemical Weapon Treaty conflicted with the war plans of the Bush administration. Continue reading
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