{"id":223008,"date":"2022-10-31T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=223008"},"modified":"2022-10-31T04:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:33:42","slug":"strategy-to-open-the-door-for-a-new-un-and-for-an-earth-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/strategy-to-open-the-door-for-a-new-un-and-for-an-earth-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and for an Earth Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>29 Oct 2022 &#8211; <\/em>The United Nation&#8217;s primary job is to end war.\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t worked.\u00a0 It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it&#8217;s Russia against US\/Ukraine.\u00a0 To add to the frustrating madness, US\/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. And despite the new international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, nuclear war is feared over the Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The articles selected for DWF NEWS in this edition illustrate serious problems that the UN cannot fix.\u00a0 Take the Cuba story.\u00a0 Despite years and years of the UN majority declaring that the US economic blockade is illegal and wrong, nothing has changed and the people of Cuba continue to suffer.\u00a0 The same situation happens with Israel&#8217;s oppression of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a new international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, a number of nations refuse to comply.\u00a0 And multinational corporations\/Big Money greed appears to be one of the causes of the inflation hurting people around the world.\u00a0 Shutting off Russian gas and oil to Europe is another factor.\u00a0 The UN lacks authority to supervise and regulate opportunistic private capitalism taking advantage of the Ukraine situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Current UN Geopolitical System Has Reached Crisis Levels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is the solution to these dilemmas?\u00a0 A small core of world federalist think tanks has developed a strategy which evaluates the flawed UN Charter and compares it to the <em>Constitution for the Federation of Earth<\/em> (aka Earth Constitution).<\/p>\n<p>THE SAN FRANCISCO PROMISE is the strategy now underway which draws upon the fact that the UN has yet to fulfill the legal requirement of Article 109-3 which requires a review of the UN Charter (see the Center for UN Constitutional Research).<\/p>\n<p>The launching of a General Review Conference can occur in two different ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A handful of nations informally begin evaluating the Charter by comparing it to the Earth Constitution; or<\/li>\n<li>postponing a Review until a 2\/3s majority is reached in both the General Assembly (128 needed out of 193 nations) and also the Security Council (9 out of 15).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A serious flaw in the Charter includes the fact that there is no enforceable world law.\u00a0 When nations are in the conflict the final arbiter is war, not the UN.\u00a0 In a world federal union, nations in conflict resolve the problem nonviolently by going either to a World Court or to an elected UN World Parliament.\u00a0 For countries plagued by criminal leaders, under the Earth Constitution they can be held accountable as individuals.\u00a0 No longer will the leaders of Bully nations remain free to plunder, kill and overthrow other governments.<\/p>\n<p>The chaos and paranoia caused by covert agencies such as the CIA, Mossad, MI6, FSB and the ilk should become illegal.\u00a0 These secret agencies should no longer be allowed to function above international law.\u00a0 In a UN world federal union, these intelligence agencies can be utilized for universal inspections to insure disarmament.<\/p>\n<p>The World Constitution &amp; Parliament Association, working with Democratic World Federalists, is educating government officials and politicians on the need for a review of the Charter.\u00a0 WCPA&#8217;s brilliant<em>\u00a0Constitution for the Federation of Earth<\/em> is being proposed as a guide and model for a &#8220;new UN&#8221; once Charter review is launched.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine crisis would have never happened if we had a different United Nations Charter.\u00a0 The UN needs a world federal constitution.<\/p>\n<p><em>_____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roger-Kotila-e1631854035952.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-189940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roger-Kotila-e1631854035952.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a> Roger Kotila, Ph.D. is a peace activist and a psychologist (ret.) with many years of clinical experience with the California Dept. of Corrections doing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment with inmates. President of Democratic World Federalists he is co-editor of <\/em>DWF NEWS<em>, and editor of <\/em>Earth Federation News &amp; Views<em>.\u00a0He supports a \u201cnew UN\u201d under the\u00a0Earth Constitution. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthfederation.info\" >www.earthfederation.info<\/a> Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:earthstarradio@aol.com\">earthstarradio@aol.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Oct 2022 &#8211; The United Nation&#8217;s primary job is to end war.  It hasn&#8217;t worked.  It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it&#8217;s Russia against US\/Ukraine.  To add to the frustrating madness, US\/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. 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