{"id":167368,"date":"2020-08-24T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=167368"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T09:21:25","slug":"the-irrelevant-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/the-irrelevant-un\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irrelevant UN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UN Headquarters New York, NY<\/p><\/div>\n

21 Aug 2020 – <\/em>The UN that exists today is not the one that had been intended. Today\u2019s UN is just an international PR forum for nations. Part of that PR is the organization\u2019s numerous \u2018humanitarian\u2019 operations, which concern what\u2019s happening to suffering groups within<\/em> nations, more than they actually concern the international relations between<\/em> nations \u2014 which international relations were supposed to have been<\/em> the UN\u2019s focus and area of concern and authority. So, this UN \u2014 the one that exists \u2014 is basically a fill-in for the one that was intended.<\/p>\n

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The UN, in the vision of its initiator, who was the anti<\/em>-imperialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was supposed to be an actually functioning international democracy composed of independent nations which would be interrelating on the basis of international laws that would concern only<\/em> international relations, and not at all<\/em> intranational relations or \u201cdomestic policies\u201d (including all<\/em> internal state matters). The basic idea was that each nation\u2019s internal policies would continue to be determined strictly by that given nation\u2019s own constitution and laws. FDR had no fantasy of having the UN become involved in the internal affairs of its constituent nations.<\/p>\n

However, FDR died on 12 April 1945 and became replaced by the pro<\/em>-imperialist Harry S. Truman, who produced, and mainly created, the imperialism-accepting UN that has since degenerated into the international lawlessness which prevails today, under the existing international PR-forum, which is today\u2019s United Nations. FDR had intended to design (and largely created the design for) a UN so as to avoid<\/em> the then-existing international lawlessness, which he said had produced both of the World Wars. That was the problem he was concerned with in creating the UN \u2014 to prevent WW III. He created it because he believed that only by avoiding the international lawlessness that had always prevailed can a Third World War be avoided. His intention was to devote the rest of his life to building and solidifying that UN<\/p>\n

The UN that the pro-imperialist Truman shaped, in violation of his predecessor FDR\u2019s anti-imperialist intention<\/a>, has degenerated so much, by now, so that it has become effectively dead (except as a PR forum). Truman\u2019s imperialism-accepting UN has died \u2014 become the walking-dead zombie it now is \u2014 because the U.S. Government no longer even has any need to be concerned about possibly being held legally to account under international law. Power corrupts, and, by now, the most-powerful (the U.S. and its allies) have no accountability at all, on the international stage. Without accountability on the part of the most-powerful, there is really no international law \u2014 no international government \u2014 at all. That\u2019s today\u2019s UN: it\u2019s this Truman-birthed zombie, the fill-in UN<\/p>\n

Throughout the world today, there is no effective international law in any instance in which the U.S. Government doesn\u2019t want international law to apply. If the U.S Government doesn\u2019t want international law to apply, then international law doesn\u2019t become applied to that particular instance. The U.S. Government, and any of its allies, is immune from international law \u2014 stands above<\/em> it (not nominally, but actually<\/em>) \u2014 though all nations that are not<\/em> allied with the U.S. are, in fact, subject to, and must adhere to, international law. This<\/em> is today\u2019s international reality.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Government doesn\u2019t only have a veto-power at the UN Security Council (which four other nations also have), but it \u2014 and it alone<\/em> \u2014 also has an effective ability, outside the UN altogether, to exempt from international law any international violation that the U.S. Government wants to exempt, which the U.S. Government routinely does want whenever the violation is being done by the U.S. Government or by an ally, such as Israel. This is a veto-power that is not within the UN, but entirely outside it \u2014<\/em> and only<\/em> the U.S. has this veto.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Israel are the most-frequent \u2014 and always un-prosecuted \u2014 violators of international laws; and the U.S. Government itself is also, and uniquely, the world\u2019s most common repudiator of the will of other nations in snubbing, and refusing to participate in, agencies of international law, such as the International Criminal Court, and international agreements to restrain global warming.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Government is not taking over any functions of international law, but is instead effectively destroying international law and the United Nations itself, by its own manifest ignoring and contempt of international law, and effectively imposing upon the entire planet an internationally lawless world, a rule by force, overriding any international rule by law.<\/p>\n

This is not the UN that FDR envisioned and hoped for; it is instead the rule-by-force that Adolf Hitler and the Axis powers during World War II intended to exist.<\/p>\n

The United States Government itself has taken upon itself the mantle of Hitler\u2019s intended Thousand-Year Reich, though with the aims of the U.S. regime, instead of with the aims of the German regime. Instead of aiming for a rule by force over the entire world by Germany\u2019s Government, today\u2019s reality is a rule by force over the entire world by America\u2019s Government. This is not Germany\u2019s imperialistic fascism ruling the world; it is instead America\u2019s imperialistic fascism ruling the world.<\/p>\n

What we see around us now is understandable realistically only<\/em> as reflecting the lawless world that the world\u2019s most powerful nation has created, and effectively imposes upon the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples:<\/p>\n

On July 21st, South Front headlined \u201cIsrael Responds With Force To Iranian Plans To Deploy Air Defense Systems In Syria\u201d<\/a> and reported \u201cLate on July 20, the Israeli Air Force carried out a new wave of airstrikes on the southern countryside of the Syrian capital of Damascus. According to Syria\u2019s state-run news agency SANA, Israeli warplanes launched missiles from the airspace over the Golan Heights at 21.48 local time.\u201d How is this invasion by Israel not an example of aggressive war<\/a>, such as was prosecuted at the Nuremberg Tribunal after WW II and such as is prohibited by the UN Charter? The invasion is routine by Israel and always unprosecuted by any UN agency. Furthermore, Israel militarily seized the Golan Heights from Syria and possesses no right to launch air strikes from Syria\u2019s territory there against the parts of Syria that Israel does not control. Israel can do this only because the U.S. regime allow it to.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The UN is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Rule-by-force pertains internationally. Unrestrained. Unpunished.<\/p>\n

Actually, for over a decade, ever since at least when the U.S. President Barack Obama came into power in 2009 and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his hypocritical rhetoric, and started his secret planning to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s Government<\/a>, such military invasions of Syria by the U.S. regime and its allies have continued unabated and destroyed Syria \u2014 and who has been punished for this?<\/p>\n

And he and his allies did it to Libya first, in 2011, and \u201cWe came, we saw, he died, ha, ha, ha!\u201d<\/a> How brazen is that? According to the Judgment at Nuremberg<\/a>, \u201cTo initiate a war of aggression \u2026 is the supreme international crime,\u201d and the Nazi leaders were executed for having produced it. The United States Government routinely produces it, such as in Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2012-, Yemen 2015-; and the U.S. regime\u2019s allies \u2014 Israel, UK, and others \u2014 likewise do. All leaders who do so must be executed, or else the Judgment at Nuremberg was mere victors\u2019 \u2018justice,\u2019 nothing such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading America\u2019s allies in WW II, intended. Furthermore, a strong case could likewise be made that America\u2019s coups which overthrew and replaced Governments in dozens of countries after WW II, such as Thailand 1948, Syria 1949, Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and up through to Ukraine 2014 and others that were attempted such as against Venezuela many times, likewise constitute the international crime of aggression, though perpetrated by subversion and bribery, instead of by paying outright armed forces in an overt military invasion.<\/p>\n

Consequently, there can be no reasonable question that the United States of America is uniquely the successor-nation to Adolf Hitler\u2019s Germany.<\/p>\n

For example: how was Obama allowed to overthrow and replace the democratically elected leaders of Ukraine in February 2014 in a barbaric and bloody coup by means of which his agent Victoria Nuland was able, in a telephone call on 27 January 2014 (prior to the February 2014\u00a0 coup), to instruct the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, whom to get appointed to lead the post-coup government, and to tell him that \u201cYats is the guy\u201d<\/a>? (And a month later, he was<\/em> appointed to lead that Government.)<\/p>\n

How can a national head-of-state who decides on his own which foreign heads-of-state will be regime-changed and how, and even which ones will be assassinated (as Libya\u2019s Gaddafi became, by U.S.-backed forces \u2014 and as Iraq\u2019s Saddam Hussein had been, by U.S.-backed forces, in 2003), and not himself face an international court and firing-squad, guillotine, or other means of public execution? Is such, a world, a world under international law, or instead, a world under international lawlessness?<\/p>\n

This can happen only<\/em> in an internationally lawless world \u2014 a world in which FDR\u2019s UN does not exist, at all. And it does not. And an internationally lawless world does now exist.<\/p>\n

Either the world will end this international lawlessness, or it will end the world, and this was the reason why FDR planned the UN \u2014 in order to save the world by establishing an international world by international laws, and not merely by international tyrants (such as America\u2019s leaders are).<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Obama was the norm for this regime\u2019s head-of-state. His immediate predecessor, George W. Bush, invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003 without any UN authorization, and destroyed the country \u2014 a country that had not invaded the United States nor even threatened to do so. (Just like Syria. Just like Libya. And just like Venezuela and Iran, which his successor Donald Trump wants to destroy.)<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s successor, Trump, has not only perpetrated yet more of Obama\u2019s invasions of Syria, and of Iraq, and of Iran, and of Yemen, and elsewhere, but he even continued Obama\u2019s coup-attempts against Venezuela, and cancelled the international agreement that enabled nuclear inspections in Iran, and refused to sign the tepid Paris Climate agreement, which \u2014 unenforced though it was \u2014 was nonetheless unacceptably strong for the U.S. regime to allow.<\/p>\n

How and why is it, then, that all three of America\u2019s recent international dictators still have heads on their shoulders, instead of in the ditch?<\/p>\n

Where international law is not enforced, international law does not exist.<\/p>\n

Hitler gave up his life for one cause above all else: a dictatorial world order. He died in that vicious cause. But ultimately he won WW II, because the America that followed after him and participated in killing him and his top followers is mainly his international regime of global conquest, not<\/em> FDR\u2019s democracy in an international democracy of independent nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hitler, in the deepest sense, won WWII. How long will his victory be allowed to stand? How long will his successor, the global American empire, be allowed to continue? What will bring it to an end? Will that be yet another imperialistic fascist regime? Or will it instead be FDR\u2019s vision<\/a>, of an international federation of independent nations, a global democracy of independent states \u2014 the UN that he had planned?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <\/em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/a>,<\/em> of\u00a0<\/em>Christ\u2019s Ventriloquists: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>, and\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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