July 11, 2024

List of Articles for DWF NEWS 7/11/24:

Why Is the West Taking the Entire World Toward Armageddon Over Ukraine?

by INTEL-DROP

Earth Constitution urgently needed but not yet on the agenda

The Summit of the Future

Jeffrey D. Sachs

US refuses to talk, a tactic to avoid peace with Russia?

My Life's Work Melting Before My Eyes

Scott Ritter

Another reason for a "new UN" utilizing the Earth Constitution

The Structure of America's Aristocratic Class

Eric Zuesse

Confronting NATO's War Summit in Washington

Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

Invoke Article 6 of the UN Charter:

Expel the US to Rescue the UN

Fritz Pointer

Why Is the West Taking the Entire World Toward Armageddon Over Ukraine?

by INTEL-DROP

EXCERPTS 7/7/24

Even for the Americans with their regime change war track record this is extreme. What possible reason can account for them driving all their allies forward into unlimited war over Ukraine?

The set goal of the USA is the removal of the political hierarchy in Russia (and China) as soon as possible and by whatever means possible. To allow Russia ANY additional security would be a disaster for the unquestioned and absolutely vital project (for the USA and its allies) to remake Russia, then China in the western image. ...  

To allow Russia any win from Ukraine is anathema to all western elites. It simply cannot be. It cannot be allowed. It will not matter HOW many gains the Russians have on the battlefield or HOW many Ukrainians die. This project simply CANNOT be ended because to end it is to leave anti-American forces at large and this, after 9/11 became unconscionable for the elites concerned. No matter what it takes they will NEVER say or do anything that allows Russia to win. Even if it means nuclear war. READ MORE

 Earth Constitution urgently needed, not yet on the agenda

The Summit of the Future

Jeffrey D. Sachs TRANSCEND Media Service

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21 Jun 2024 – The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we want or need. ... UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has wisely called for a Summit of the Future (SOTF) at the United Nations on September 22-23, a call that has been endorsed by the 193 UN Member states.

... The crisis of human-induced climate change (especially the warming of the planet) cannot be solved by any one country alone. Nor can the crises of wars (such as in Ukraine and Gaza) or the geopolitical tensions (between the US and China) be settled by one or two countries alone. ...

... The UN today depends too much on a few powerful countries, most on notably the US. When the US doesn’t pay its dues to the UN, for example, the whole UN system is weakened. ... 

... We also should make the UN institutions more representative of the world of 2024 rather than the world of 1945, when the UN was established. ...

Another core recommendation of the SDSN is to introduce a UN Parliamentary Assembly as a new chamber alongside the UN General Assembly (UNGA). ... A UN Parliament would represent the peoples of the world rather than the governments. READ MORE

US refuses to talk, a tactic to avoid peace with Russia?

My Life's Work Melting Before My Eyes

Scott Ritter

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In September 2023, the U.S. deployed two Mk 70 launchers onto the soil of Denmark as part of NATO military exercises. And in May of 2024 the U.S. likewise deployed the Mk 70 launcher on the soil of the Philippines. These actions prompted Putin’s response.

In short, we have literally gone back to square one when it comes to arms control and nuclear disarmament — to a time when Cold War politics nearly brought the U.S. and Russia to the edge of the nuclear abyss.

That is where we stand today.

There is no doubt in my mind that within the ranks of the Russian and U.S. diplomatic corps today are two men possessed of the vision and courage of Paul Nitze and Yuli Kvitsinsky who can, if given the opportunity, recreate the magic of the “Walk in the Woods.” That magic helped create the conditions for negotiations that helped pull the U.S. and Soviet Union from the nuclear abyss more than four decades ago. 

But two hurdles must be crossed first. It is difficult to imagine a U.S. and Russian diplomat walking and talking today when, as Professor Sergey Markedonev, a fellow participant at the Vienna round table pointed out, official U.S. policy precludes even shaking hands with Russian diplomats.

To cross that bridge the U.S. government needs a signal from the American people that such behavior is not acceptable.  READ MORE

Another reason for a "new UN" utilizing the Earth Constitution

The Structure of America's Aristocratic Class

Eric Zuesse

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The four centers of America’s ruling class are the Democratic Party’s super-rich in California, which is the high-tech-and-Hollywood, or Silicon Valley (venture capital) and propaganda, center; versus the Republican Party’s super-rich in Texas, which remains the fossil-fuels center; plus both Parties’ super-rich in Virginia near DC, which is the military-industrial-governmental complex, or basically the weapons-producing and lobbying center; plus the greater ...

Domestically, America’s aristocracy are united against the public (their consumers and workers); and, so, their internal policies are united — Republican versus Democratic ... However, on foreign policies, they are virtually 100% united on expanding yet further their empire, with virtually no difference on this “neoconservative” foreign policy — which is extraordinarily aggressive — to capture all countries that haven’t yet been brought into their ‘alliance’ (as being colonies of the U.S. empire).

There will be no way to reform the existing and highly institutionalized imperialistic international world order except by either reforming or replacing the existing U.N. If the detailed legacy of FDR on this is not to be cited as the historical foundation for this, then what would be? Whatever it is, must be stated, no longer ignored, because otherwise it will have no historical foundation and will therefore fail. READ MORE

Confronting NATO's War Summit in Washington

Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies     Common Dreams

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 As other countries have pointed out at the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. and NATO’s rejection of negotiation and diplomacy in favor of a long war they hope will eventually “weaken” Russia is a flagrant violation of the “Pacific Settlement of Disputes” that all U.N. members are legally committed to under Chapter VI of the U.N. Charter. As it says in Article 33(1) ...

When NATO leaders meet in Washington, what they should be doing, apart from figuring out how to comply with Article 33(1) of the U.N. Charter, is conducting a clear-eyed review of how this organization that claims to be a force for peace keeps escalating unwinnable wars and leaving countries in ruins.

The fundamental question is whether NATO can ever be a force for peace or whether it can never be anything but a dangerous, subservient extension of the U.S. war machine.

READ MORE

Invoke Article 6 of the UN Charter:

Expel the US to Rescue the UN

Fritz Pointer

Editor's note: Mr. Pointer's advocacy to expel the U.S. from the UN is not necessarily the view of Democratic World Federalists, but raises the issue of criminal national governments within the UN. The U.S. has a permanent veto, being part of the P-5 Security Council. The U.S. would not expel itself. But claiming to be a "democracy" does not give the U.S. government (or any other government) the right to mock and violate international Law and Order, or to threaten to withhold funding from the UN when it rejects or resists U.S. demands. -- R. Kotila

Invoke Article 6 of the United Nations Charter:

Expel the US to Rescue the UN

 Fritz Pointer

Article 6 of the UN Charter states:

A member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

The invocation of Article 6 to expel the United States from the United Nations is a concrete action that should be taken by the 192 member states of the UN General Assembly as well as NGOs and political activists and groups globally. This action involves the removal of the single most malignant, cancerous, force in that organization. Once that malignant force is removed then the UN has some chance of being reformed or rehabilitated; to become a genuinely representative global international consultative council of countries an insurer of states, which is what it is purported to want to be, what it’s supposed to be.

The aim of the UN Charter is to save humanity from war; to reaffirm human rights and the dignity and worth of the human person (Palestinian, Jewish, African, European, Asian, Latin. Etc.). To proclaim the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small; and to promote the prosperity of all humankind. The UN Charter is the foundation of international peace and security. 

The United States is the Greatest Threat to Global Peace and Security; the U.S. has consistently broken the principles of the UN Charter since the United Nations Security Council’s inception. For example, in October 2001, George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan, even thought Afghanistan had not attacked the United States. Two years later, Bush invaded Iraq to change its regime. Both of Bush’s wars – in Afghanistan and Iraq – violated the UN Charter. 

John Bolton, then Bush’s temporary ambassador to the United Nations admitted that the U.S. government considered the UN to be a tool of its foreign policy. Bolton declared: “There is no United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that is the United States, when it suits our interest and when we can get others to go along.” Bolton added, consistent with U.S. arrogance, racism, hubris and stupidity, “When the United States leads, the United Nations will follow. When it suits our interest to do so, we will do so.” 

Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton’s secretary of state called the UN “a tool of American foreign policy.” It was Albright who oversaw the US-led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, which also violated the UN Charter.

Barack Obama and his counterparts in France and Britain engaged in forcible regime change and murdered Libyan president Muammar Qaddafi. Here the US hid behind the doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” In accordance with Chapters VI and VIII of the UN Charter, this doctrine is intended to help protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic-cleansing, and crimes against humanity. It is not surprising that the US and its allies have not utilized the Responsibility to Protect doctrine to protect the people of Palestine from massacres and a genocide in progress by the United States /Israeli - Christian /Zionists (2023-2024).

Donald Trump followed suit by bombing Syria and Iraq and threatening to attack North Korea. In 2017 Trump sent 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles to attack Syria. Syria had not attacked the United States. The Security Council had not approved Trump’s use of force. It therefore violated the UN Charter.

Invoking Article 6 of the UN Charter to expel the United States is a practical and expedient solution to pursue World Peace.