Reuters The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday [18.10.23] that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip.
by Philip Giraldi 28.6.2018 : "The United States has decided to no longer participate in the United Nations 47-member Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The number one reason cited by U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley was that the council is unfairly critically focused on Israel [...] the U.S. withdrawal from U.N. agencies is, if anything, a sign of weakness rather than strength. If Washington were indeed confident in its own brand of international leadership it would welcome the opportunity to sit on panels and help shape the views of other countries with which it has a politically neutral or adversarial relationships. That it does not choose to do so suggests that there is an understanding that what Washington is selling no one is buying. The complete isolation of the United States at the United Nations and also elsewhere, to include G-7, was exhibited recently during June 1st votes at the U.N. Security Council. A resolution sponsored by Kuwait seeking an inquiry into the Israeli killing of unarmed demonstrators in Gaza and a motion by Haley seeking to blame Hamas for the deaths both were voted on. Haley’s was the only vote against the former and the only vote in favor of the latter. She predictably commented afterwards that “Further proof was not needed, but it is now completely clear that the U.N. is hopelessly biased against Israel.”
The United States has withdrawn from Unesco over what it claims is the organisation’s “continuing anti-Israel bias” – a move that has just been followed by Israel itself. The US State Department recently announced its intention to withdraw from the UN’s cultural, scientific and educational organisation and become a permanent observer instead.... The US has withdrawn from the organisation once before, during the Reagan administration. Former President Ronald Regan pulled the country from Unesco in 1984, claiming the body was biased in favour of the Soviet Union.
President George W Bush rejoined the organisation in 2002, but the US pulled its funding less than 10 years later after the organisation accepted Palestine as a member... the decision to withdraw from Unesco may also have been a financial one: the US owed more than $500m in arrears to the organisation and was at risk of losing it voting rights, according to Unesco documents. According to Foreign Policy, Mr Tillerson simply wanted to stem outgoings.
Mick Moore, 22 January 2010 : "It is no longer utopian to talk of substantial policy change within a few years. Where and how will it come about? There are clear, strong links between prohibition and the growing likelihood of defeat for the Western milita
Henry A. Wallace: The Way to Peace (September 12, 1946) When the United States were still mighty by all meanings, Wallace gave this speech in the New York Madison Square Garden. One week later he was forced to resign by President Harry S. Truman.
I maj 2006 sade den amerikanske FN-ambassadören, John Bolton: "Huvudsaken är att Ryssland och Kina är ense om att detta [Irans kärnforskning] är ett hot mot internationell fred och säkerhet enligt kapitel VII." Kapitel VII ("åtgärder i samband med hot mot
Jan Eliasson, FN:s biträdande generalsekreterare och tidigare socialdemokratisk utrikesminister i Sverige, ska resa till Ukraina på söndagskvällen, amerikansk tid.Tidigare på söndagen meddelade USA att utrikesminister John Kerry åker till Kiev på tisdag för att diskutera läget.
Jake Wallis Simons on Telegraph Blog, April 25th, 2013: "The UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur, Richard Falk, has provoked outrage by claiming in an essay in Foreign Policy Journal that American foreign policy was to blame for the Boston marathon bombings" ... "... the notion that Islamic terror arises merely as a response to US, Israeli and British action is gravely insidious." Jake Wallis Simons is a Telegraph features writer.
Transcript of an interview in March 2010 with Remy Brulin, who recently had finished "his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled "The US Discourse on Terrorism Since 1945, and how The New York Times has Covered the Issue of Terrorism" "... there were a couple of conferences, one in ’79 and one in ’84, that were both organized by an organization, an institute, called the Jonathan Institute. It’s called the Jonathan Institute after the name of Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother, Jonathan Netanyahu, and he was killed in the raid in Entebbe in ’76 [...] the first conference that was designed to define or come up with a consensus definition of terrorism" Definition : “terrorism is the deliberate systematic murder, maiming and menacing of innocents to inspire fear in order to gain political ends.” the Dodd (D) amendment, against wich Stevens (R) said "the Contras were freedom fighters" never reported by NYT
Anna MacDonald of Control Arms speaks at the start of the ceremony for the signing of the Arms Trade Treaty at United Nations headquarters in New York, Jun. 3, 2013