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UN at 70: “Foxes in Charge of Global Chicken Coup”?
June 24, 2015
The United Nations Charter was signed on June 26, 1945 70 years ago this Friday in San Francisco. [Note: IPA has a new online calendar a tool for journalists and others: accuracy.org/calendar.]
The Charter states: All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state
JAMES PAUL, james.paul.nyc at gmail.com. Paul was executive director of Global Policy Forum, a think tank that monitors the UN. He just wrote a two-part piece The UN Disappoints on its Seventieth Anniversary, the first part of which will be published today by Inter Press Service. (Part 2).
He said today: From time to time, it has seemed that the UN might have a breakout moment, that it might take the lead in a transition to what used to be called global governance more participatory, more just, more peaceful. But it never happened certainly not in the post Cold War world dominated by the United States and its Western allies. The UN effort to control transnational corporations collapsed by the mid-1990s, initiatives to make the Security Council more responsive to international law failed, the promising global conferences came mostly to naught. Washington forced Kofi Annan to purge his senior staff and toe the line, once the Iraq War was well under way. The White House crudely forced out UN ambassadors that did not conform to its wishes. And Congress threatened to pull the plug on funding. The foxes were in charge of the global chicken coop.
Full article: http://www.accuracy.org/release/un-at-70-foxes-in-charge-of-global-chicken-coup/
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UN at 70: “Foxes in Charge of Global Chicken Coup”? (Original Post)
polly7
Jun 2015
OP
The age of transnational global corporate rule above any group or entity.
appalachiablue
Jul 2015
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KoKo
(84,711 posts)1. So many of us had high hopes for the UN......
The UN effort to control transnational corporations collapsed by the mid-1990s, initiatives to make the Security Council more responsive to international law failed, the promising global conferences came mostly to naught. Washington forced Kofi Annan to purge his senior staff and toe the line, once the Iraq War was well under way. The White House crudely forced out UN ambassadors that did not conform to its wishes. And Congress threatened to pull the plug on funding. The foxes were in charge of the global chicken coop.
polly7
(20,582 posts)2. I know I did, KoKo.
I used to admire the UN so much for peacekeeping around the world and the improvements in so many people's lives they seemed to make.
It's very sad to see it powerless now, and actually used in some cases by those with the most clout to enable programs that now cause harm.
So disappointing.
appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)3. The age of transnational global corporate rule above any group or entity.
So very wrong.