South America Just Stood Up: Can I get a big "HELL NO!"

Well well well..... Let's see if the American Media report on THIS Major Piece of Breaking News. 

"Secretary-General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Ernesto Samper said this week that the body rejects “any attempt at internal or external interference that attempts to disrupt the democratic process in Venezuela.” The 12-nation bloc has agreed to hold a high-level meeting on March 14 in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss how to go about responding the new measures. The ad hoc meeting was announced urgently by Correa shortly after Obama’s remarks on how Venezuela is a threat to the US."

This, my friends, is the next major salvo in "Game Over" for the US Cabals stranglehold on the worlds proverbial testicles.  Will the Main Stream Media publish it?  Will they put some sort of desperate spin on it to try and make it look like mean ol' South America is ganging up on poor lil' USA?

Another salvo that went unnoticed by just about everyone, was a Statement made by the Non-Aligned Nations Movement on Feb 2, 2015:

Statement by the Non-Aligned Nations Movement:

Communiqué of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement to protest the latest decision of the Government of the United States, dated February 2, 2015, to expand unilateral coercive measures against Venezuela.

In case you're wondering just how many Nations are part of the Non-Aligned Nations movement, I have posted further information after the next two articles.   A quick glance should be all it takes to let you know that the vast majority of the planet are now AGAINST the US.

‘Undemocratic, interventionist’: Bolivia lashes out at Obama for Venezuela sanctions

Published time: March 13, 2015 10:01

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and Bolivia's President Evo Morales (Reuters)

Bolivia’s Foreign Ministry has joined a chorus of condemnation over US sanctions on Venezuela. A statement called on the US to “abandon its interventionist practices,” shortly after the rest of Latin America bonded in defense of Caracas.
Setting off the Latin outcry was US President Barack Obama’s decision to label Venezuela a ‘national security threat’ in early March, something President Nicolas Maduro countered by saying that Obama had taken it upon himself to “defeat” and “control” the country.
La Paz is striking back at Washington in defense of Caracas, after Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this week signaled his support for Maduro. In a Thursday document the Foreign Ministry expressed its “regret” at Obama’s stance, saying “Bolivia rejects these interventionist actions of the US government to violate the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people. These undemocratic actions of President Barack Obama threaten the peace and security of all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Maduro: US trying to ‘defeat’ Venezuela govt with sanctions, we’ll fight back

“Bolivia reiterates its full support for the legitimate government of brother Nicolas Maduro, a president democratically elected by his people, and pledge our solidarity to the Venezuelan people in this unfair and difficult time in which democracy is again trying to be sacrificed to serve foreign interests,” the document also read.
Some of the loudest criticism in Latin America came from Cuba, which questioned Obama’s decision-making wisdom. Calling the president’s actions “arbitrary and aggressive,” its Foreign Ministry also issued a statement.
“How is Venezuela a threat to the United States? Thousands of kilometers away, without strategic weapons and without the resources … to conspire against the US constitutional order; the [White House] declaration has little credibility,” Cuban newspaper Granma cited the document as saying.
Similar outrage was heard from Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who took to Facebook to voice his objections, calling the US sanctions “a bad joke, which reminds us of the darkest hour of our America, when we received invasions and dictatorships imposed by imperialism.”

U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Offering its “full support” to Maduro, Correa reiterated that such actions will not stand with Latin America “in the 21st century.”
Meanwhile, Secretary-General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Ernesto Samper said this week that the body rejects “any attempt at internal or external interference that attempts to disrupt the democratic process in Venezuela.”
The 12-nation bloc has agreed to hold a high-level meeting on March 14 in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss how to go about responding the new measures. The ad hoc meeting was announced urgently by Correa shortly after Obama’s remarks on how Venezuela is a threat to the US. Like other Latin-American partners, Correa sees this as a move to isolate Caracas and finish the job that the opposition could not.
The nations are also part of the anti-imperialist ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America) group of Latin American and Caribbean nations, which earlier said that the move by Obama “constitutes an unprecedented aggression against that country and thus our region.

Maduro accuses Joe Biden of ‘bloody coup’ in Venezuela

“This aggression violates every principle of international law which governs relationships between states, treating every state as equal and sovereign.”
Washington and Caracas have been at odds since Venezuela's iconic former leader Hugo Chavez came to power in 2000. The two had not had full diplomatic representation since 2008.
The country had recently grappled with heavy unrest, which was quelled. Later in February the president announced victory over the alleged US-sponsored coup, which he says was masterminded by Vice-President Joe Biden himself – the first time an accusation of such gravity was made to a crowd of thousands and on national television.

Original Article: http://rt.com/news/240325-venezuela-sanctions-obama-america/

UNASUR Extraordinary Meeting on US Aggression Toward Venezuela

The foreign ministers of the South American bloc will analyze Obama’s internationally condemned executive action.

An extraordinary meeting between the Union of South American Nations’ foreign ministers will meet this Saturday in Ecuador to analyze President Barack Obama's executive actions, which amount to aggressions and threats against Venezuela.
Ecuador's Foreign Ministry released a statement Thursday announcing the meeting, which will take place at UNASUR's headquarters just north of Quito at 2.00 p.m. local time, when the officials will also be briefed on report by a special foreign affairs commission, which visited Caracas March 6.
“This meeting will take place instead of the one that was planned for the same day in Montevideo, Uruguay,” the foreign ministry said.
“During the extraordinary meeting, the report produced by the reduced Commission of the bloc's Foreign Ministers and the Secretary-General of UNASUR Ernesto Samper during their visit to Caracas,” the ministry added.
The officials will discuss Obama’s decision to declare a national emergency claiming that Venezuela poses a threat to its country's security.

...On Wednesday, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said the member-states of the UNASUR would discuss U.S. aggressions against Venezuelan affairs, describing them as “gross, illegal, shameless, outrageous, and unjustified act of interference.”
The head of UNASUR, Ernesto Samper, has already made clear that the bloc stands behind the democratically-elected government of Nicolas Maduro.

"There is no possibility that UNASUR will validate any attempt to disrupt the democratic process in any country in the region," said Samper.
During a meeting in Quito, Ecuador, which included representatives from other regional bodies including Mercosur, ALBA, Pacific Alliance, the Andean Community, and the Amazon Treaty Cooperation Agreement, Samper added that the sanctions against Venezuela, and the timing of the action, were not good signs.

Continue Reading HERE:  http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/UNASUR-Extraordinary-Meeting-on-US-Aggression-Toward-Venezuela-20150312-0021.html

The Non-Aligned Nations Movement:

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states which are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement has 120 members and 17 observer countries.^[1]

...In a speech given during the Havana Declaration of 1979, Fidel Castro said the purpose of the organization is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics".^[4] The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations's members and contain 55% of the world population. Membership is particularly concentrated in countries considered to be developing or part of the Third World.^[5]

 

Who are The Non-Aligned Nations?  

Current members

The following countries are members of the NAM, arranged by continent, showing their year of admission:^[1][37]

Africa

Currently every African country (except the newly created South Sudan and the unrecognized states of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Somaliland) is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement.

1. Algeria (1961)
2. Angola (1964)
3. Benin (1964)
4. Botswana (1970)
5. Burkina Faso (1973)
6. Burundi (1964)
7. Cameroon (1964)
8. Cape Verde (1976)
9. Central African Republic (1964)
10. Chad (1964)
11. Comoros (1976)
12. Democratic Republic of the Congo (1961)
13. Djibouti (1983)
14. Egypt (1961)
15. Equatorial Guinea (1970)
16. Eritrea (1995)
17. Ethiopia (1961)
18. Gabon (1970)
19. Gambia (1973)
20. Ghana (1961)
21. Guinea (1961)
22. Guinea-Bissau (1976)
23. Côte d'Ivoire (1973)
24. Kenya (1964)
25. Lesotho (1970)
26. Liberia (1964)
27. Libya (1964)
28. Madagascar (1973)
29. Malawi (1964)
30. Mali (1961)
31. Mauritania (1964)
32. Mauritius (1973)
33. Morocco (1961)
34. Mozambique (1976)
35. Namibia (1979)
36. Niger (1973)
37. Nigeria (1964)
38. Republic of the Congo (1964)
39. Rwanda (1970)
40. Sao Tome and Principe (1976)
41. Senegal (1964)
42. Seychelles (1976)
43. Sierra Leone (1964)
44. Somalia (1961)
45. South Africa (1994)
46. Sudan (1961)
47. Swaziland (1970)
48. Tanzania (1964)
49. Togo (1964)
50. Tunisia (1961)
51. Uganda (1964)
52. Zambia (1964)
53. Zimbabwe (1979)

Americas

1. Antigua and Barbuda (2006)
2. Bahamas (1983)
3. Barbados (1983)
4. Belize (1976)
5. Bolivia (1979)
6. Chile (1973)
7. Colombia (1983)
8. Cuba (1961)
9. Dominica (2006)
10. Dominican Republic (2000)
11. Ecuador (1983)
12. Grenada (1979)
13. Guatemala (1993)
14. Guyana (1970)
15. Haiti (2006)
16. Honduras (1995)
17. Jamaica (1970)
18. Nicaragua (1979)
19. Panama (1976)
20. Peru (1973)
21. Saint Kitts and Nevis (2006)
22. Saint Lucia (1983)
23. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2003)
24. Suriname (1983)
25. Trinidad and Tobago (1970)
26. Venezuela (1989)

Asia

1. Azerbaijan (2011)
2. Afghanistan (1961)
3. Bahrain (1973)
4. Bangladesh (1973)
5. Bhutan (1973)
6. Brunei (1993)
7. Cambodia (1961)
8. India (1961)
9. Indonesia (1961)
10. Iran (1979)
11. Iraq (1961)
12. Jordan (1964)
13. Kuwait (1964)
14. Laos (1964)
15. Lebanon (1961)
16. Malaysia (1970)
17. Maldives (1976)
18. Mongolia (1993)
19. Myanmar (1961)
20. Nepal (1961)
21. North Korea (1976)
22. Oman (1973)
23. Pakistan (1979)
24. State of Palestine (1976)
25. Philippines (1993)
26. Qatar (1973)
27. Saudi Arabia (1961)
28. Singapore (1970)
29. Sri Lanka (1961)
30. Syria (1964)
31. Thailand (1993)
32. East Timor (2003)
33. Turkmenistan (1995)
34. United Arab Emirates (1970)
35. Uzbekistan (1993)
36. Vietnam (1976)
37. Yemen (1961)^[39]

Europe

1. Belarus (1998)

Oceania

1. Fiji (2011)
2. Papua New Guinea (1993)
3. Vanuatu (1983)

Former members

1. Argentina (1973-1991)^[40]
2. Cyprus (1961-2004)^[41][42]
3. Malta (1973-2004)^[42]
4. SFR Yugoslavia (1961-1992)^[7][43] (including FR Yugoslavia^[44] )
5. Ukraine (2010-2014) (dropped observer status)

^[45]

Observers

The following countries and organizations have observer status:^[1]

Countries

1. Argentina
2. Armenia
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
4. Brazil
5. China
6. Costa Rica
7. El Salvador
8. Kazakhstan
9. Kyrgyzstan
10. Mexico
11. Montenegro
12. Paraguay
13. Serbia
14. Tajikistan
15. Uruguay

Organisations

1. African Union
2. Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation
3. Arab League
4. Commonwealth Secretariat
5. Hostosian National Independence Movement
6. Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front
7. Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
8. South Centre
9. United Nations
10. World Peace Council
11. International Institute for Non-Aligned Studies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

Keshe: Peace Negotiations and Standing up to the Bullies

Keshe's  latest message about the threats from Israel and a new era of global peace.  

Please note that China, Russia and Iran are working together towards this goal.  In the arena of financial freedom and prosperity, with the ending of the iron fisted control by the elites and their banking cartel, recognition of the work of these countries and the vast multitude of nations that stand behind them is of great importance.  The cabal controlled media continues it's propaganda campaign against these nations, spreading continuous waves of fear porn and perpetuating the racial/political/religious divisions that they have used for centuries to control the masses.

While the puppet media would try to convince you that the US and their G5 partners are the guiding light of the majority of the world, the actual fact is that they pretty much stand alone with a couple of their ass kissing sycophants for company.  Over 120 nations of the Non-Aligned Movement stand with Iran, and over 95 of these nations have taken a firm stand against the Cabal's "United" Nations. 

The G5 nations are about to find themselves playing "I'm the King of the castle".... all by themselves.

On the topic of threats.  Five years ago I would have played the roll of peace-keeper.  Today is a different story.  Today, while I still abhor violence and warmongering  tactics, I realize now that sometimes the best way to get the bully to stop picking on you is to bloody their nose.  So yes I don't like countries threatening countries, but when the school yard bully continuously shouts threats and waves their fist around, maybe it's time for the rest of the kids to step up and blacken the bully's eye.  

...or kick him in the balls. 

Regardless, bullies are usually not very tough, especially if they're running home crying for their mommy.




In response to what has been put on the Keshe thoughts group which is going on now on the internet at this moment:

Following our last call from the Keshe Foundation centre in Belgium for peace negotiations between the Iranian government and the government of Israel, we renew our call to both nations before the final move and total war between them. 

The balance of the game has totally shifted in the last days in favour of Iran and Iran will win the war if any move is made against them by any nation, be it Israel or the US government.

Our cousins and brothers in all three nations, please accept our call for peace as we do not see a way out apart from total change of the map of the state of Israel if any military move is made by either country. 

This checkmate position for Israel and the nations of the West is the result of their atrocities of past decades and is due to the wisdom of the Chinese and Russian leadership, the Syrian president and the foresight of the Iranian government and its religious leadership.

From now on the world will be a safer place for all of us as the bankrupt nations of the world calling themselves world super powers have been snookered into accepting the final checkmate by the peace loving nations of China, Iran and Russia.

Now world peace is nearly guaranteed and from the Keshe Foundation’s point of view we foresee the establishment of world peace through the wisdom of the Iranian, Russian and Chinese leadership.

We thank these governments for their wisdom and we offer our technology to support their move for the establishment of peace on the planet.

Let me explain what has happened and how the West will soon ask for peace talks which will result in a change of membership in the UN Security Council.

In their attempt to topple the Syrian government, using the excuse of its unjust leadership, the British and US got involved in the Syrian fighting and were planning through this intervention to topple the Iranian government as well. As they thought this time again as in the case of Libya no-one would stand in front of them to stop this continuous killing and robbing the nations of the Middle East of their central bank reserves, to replace their losses in the financial markets in the past years as was done in the Second World War by the Germans in respect to the European nations central banks. 

Due to this checkmate the Israel nation will be forced into accepting the Iranian plan for the establishment of the state of Palestine with Jewish people as its citizens and consequently the UK and France will be forced out of the UN Security Council and these two nations will be replaced by Brazil and India.

In the coming months the US, UK and French past leaderships will be subjected to a full trial at the International Court of Justice for their unjust wars and for killing millions of people and for the human rights atrocities of the past thirty years.

Let us see how Iran, China and Russia made this amazing move and how the US, UK and Israel have been checkmated and have to accept the world peace put forward by these wining world peace nations.

First of all, if the present state of Israel does not accept the Iranian proposal for the establishment of the state of Palestine then it will cease to exist and will be merged with the new state of Palestine as has been for centuries. Thus the Iran leadership’s call for changing the map will be finalized and the nightmare of Israel attacking Iran will be over.

Israel, the UK and the US shot themselves in the foot by going into Syria and now they have to accept this change of policy in the Middle East, which will bring an end to war in this region for good.

What has happened is that as part of the joint military exercises being carried out by Syria, China, Russia and Iran, Iran is now sitting on Israel’s doorstep, bringing Israel’s worst nightmare to reality, and Iran can walk into the state of Israel any time they wish.

So if Israel goes ahead with its threat of attacking Iran while it has the Iranian military sitting on its borders, they with their short range missiles and trained army will literally walk through the state of Israel.

So this brings us to the call for peace between the present nation of Israel and Iran before this state ceases to exist and becomes part of the state of Palestine.

During these four state military exercises the US will not dare to attack Iran, China and Russia all at the same time, and in one move the US administration has become the underdog of the peace loving nations of Iran, China and Russia.

We congratulate the leadership of these nations who are working for the establishment of real world peace and not those who under the banner of world peace have caused so much suffering in the Middle East in recent years.

With this move, the economy of the west will start tumbling down as their economies based on the war-making machine come to a sudden halt, and in the coming weeks we will see the leaders of Europe change their address to the prisons of the international criminal courts for the crimes they have committed.

Maybe this is what was to be expected as the US as slave to the UK government could not get involved in more wars and lose more of its youth to end up in flag-draped coffins.

Now we all know why we started our teaching program from 21.9.2012, as from now we will all learn the real meaning of peace and can implement our ethos of the unity of mankind through the SSP program.

At the same time our calls goes to Iranians, Arabs and Palestinians of the region too, that use this opportunity to create everlasting peace and not make the mistakes of our Israel’s brothers in the past, you think that, now that you are free, it is your time to cause harm to others as you see it to be your right to do so for what they have done to you since late 1940’s.

Show the true meaning of words of the holy books and forgive and not forget that if forgotten then the same mistakes shall be made, if forgiven then this shows the maturity of the Palestinian's reaching peace through sufferings , that they would not like to see no others to go through the same pains again and for them to do to the same atrocities to others, even to those who have harmed them are all of their own cosines and Children’s and son’s of Abraham.

Forgiving has sweeter and longer lasting taste, and with this forgiving we shall restore and end with banishment of tribe of Mohammad from obscurity and give them the equal seat on the table of the sons of Man. With this we hope all have received what they have asked for and from now mankind can live in peace and harmony on this past troubled planet.

We see and hope for a better future for mankind, now that the tools of war have come to ceased to exist and from now on we see the factories of war making machines will become to work much harder by producing the tools of the peace and systems for transporting the mankind in to the spans of the universe, for us to take the ethos of peace with us to teach and announce to others as to show we have matured enough that we can take our place in the peaceful universal community.

Click HERE to read the original post by Keshe

America's Take over of the United Nations- the NAM nations stand up

The controlled mainstream media keeps shoving the lies about Iran down the throats of the unthinking public, but the following articles about the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that took place last month in Tehran gives a truthful outline of the reality of the failed sanctions and the school yard name calling and bully boy threats against Iran.

Go to the article "Iran and the 120 nations that stand with them"  and follow the link to watch several videos from the NAM summit. 

Here is a list of the Non-Aligned Movement participating and observing countries. Notice something?  Note that between the participating and observing nations, almost all of Africa, Asia, South and Central America, most of the Caribbean, and a handful of non-Euro controlled European countries attended.  Pretty much the only countries missing from the list are the Cabal controlled G10 and their cohorts.  That fact alone should be enough to wake up the sleeping masses to the truth of the demise of the Cabalistic Power Hungry G10.... the rest of the world has had enough.

NAM Members & Observers

May 2012

NAM Members & Observers (PDF)

NAM Member Countries: (120)

Afghanistan Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Cuba Democratic People's Republic of Korea Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Ecuador Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Gambia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lao People's Democratic Republic Lebanon

Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines Qatar Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkmenistan Uganda United Arab Emirates United Republic of Tanzania Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

NAM Observer Countries: (17)

Argentina Armenia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil China Costa Rica Croatia El Salvador Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan Mexico Montenegro Paraguay Serbia Tajikistan Ukraine Uruguay

America’s Takeover of the United Nations

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Global Research, September 05, 2012

Press TV September 3, 2012

Region: Middle East & North Africa

Theme: United Nations

In-depth Report: IRAN: THE NEXT WAR?, SYRIA: NATO'S NEXT WAR?

The calls at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran for reforming the United Nations and democratizing the Security Council were not exactly new. These calls for UN reform were embodied by the conference’s dictum of “lasting peace through joint global governance.” These demands have been made over and over again by various countries and groups throughout the years.

Nor was everyone present at the NAM gala in Tehran a friend of Iran or open to the Iranian proposals for reforming the United Nations. The visibly shaken Jeffrey Feltman, who was uncomfortably sitting with Iranian officials in Tehran alongside his new boss Ban Ki-moon, can testify to all this. Feltman is a clear symbol of how contaminated the United Nations has become by the imperialist interests of Washington.

The manipulation of the United Nations for imperialist interests, however, goes back a long way. From its inception, the United Nations was meant to facilitate the global influence of the US after the Second World War. The idea of the United Nations, which gets its name from the military coalition (called the United Nations) of the Allied countries that was formed against Germany and the Axis countries, was based on an agreement drafted by the US and the UK during the Second World War. This agreement, the Atlantic Charter, was written out while the US was officially neutral, but secretly supported the British war effort against Germany and its Axis allies by sending supplies to Britain through Canada. The US would later use the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a justification for entering the war and getting the other Allies to accept the Anglo-American Atlantic Charter during the war and then at the San Francisco Conference in 1945.

The United Nations Security Council

The membership of the UN grew from fifty-one to a hundred and fifty-nine members between 1945 and 1985, with most of the new member countries being former colonies. The UN was used as a tool to control most these former Western European and American colonies of the Third World. At first the US and its post-war allies maintained their domination over the newly formed UN and the former colonies through their numbers and then through a Western Bloc monopoly over the structures of the United Nations. Hereto this monopoly includes control over the agencies and permanent veto-wielding chairs of the fifteen-member Security Council of the United Nations.

The Security Council above all has been used by the US as a means of protecting its interests. The purpose of the Security Council veto is to reject any international resolutions and consensuses against the national interests (or more precisely the interests of the ruling elites) of the US and the other major post-World War II powers. Except for the rival Soviet Union, the US originally controlled or heavily influenced the other three permanent veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council. Britain and the US were essentially confederated and had integrated in 1941 with one another through the Anglo-American Atlantic Charter. France, as a declining power like the UK, was heavily dependent on the United States. The Chinese seat was also originally held by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) which was a US client.

US General Albert C. Wedemeyer was the chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of Kuomintang-ruled China before Kai-shek fled to Taiwan after the Communist Party of China took over the mainland. The US even envisioned a role for the Kuomintang in governing the former French colonies of Indo-China. Only in 1971 would Washington lose control over the Chinese seat at the UN Security Council when the People’s Republic of China was recognized as the legitimate representative of the Chinese people by the majority of the UN General Assembly and therefore handed over Taiwan’s permanent seat at the UN Security Council.

While the Soviet Union originally made the most vetoes at the UN Security Council, the situation began to change towards the second half of the Cold War and in the post-Cold War era when the US began to take the lead in making vetoes. Ironically, the US and its allies are saying that the international system is failing now due to the double vetoes of China and Russia preventing foreign intervention in Syria. No similar complaints have been made about the numerous vetoes cast by Washington in support of Israel.

Eventually the UN Security Council went beyond the function of protecting US interests after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It became a tool for projecting US interests globally as Washington began to push for unipolar post-Cold War hegemony. The Chinese and Russian double vetoes signal an end to both Pax Americana and the use of the UN Security Council to project US power.

The Secretariat of the United Nations

Besides the United Nations Security Council, the Secretariat of the United Nations has been predominately under the control of the US and its allies. At first this took place because the US and the Western Bloc had numerical superiority at the United Nations. Thus, the first two secretaries-general of the UN were from the Western European kingdoms of Norway, and Sweden. Prior to this Baron Hubert Gladwyn from the United Kingdom was the acting secretary-general of the UN. Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjold would visibly serve US and Western Bloc interests to the point that the Soviets and others would demand he be removed from the UN Secretariat.

As the Western Bloc began to lose its numerical advantage, control over the Secretariat would be maintained through the Security Council. The UN Security Council does this by filtering all the candidates for the top UN post in the Secretariat. Secretaries-general of the UN are appointed by the UN General Assembly based on the recommendation of the UN Security Council. Thus, the US and other permanent members of the Security Council have vetoes that can eliminate any candidates that would be hostile to their interests.

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s condemnations about the Secretariat of the United Nations, which helped remove nationalist leaders from power across Africa and the Third World, have a resonating truth to them. After a long streak of secretaries-general that were predominately favorable to the Western Bloc, the Non-Aligned Movement would push a NAM candidate into the UN Secretariat. The NAM’s position is the basis for the elevation of Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros-Ghali’s to the post of UN secretary-general in 1992.

Bourtos-Ghali was the closest thing to the last independent secretary-general of the United Nations. The world, however, rapidly changed since the end of the Cold War and Washington expected a far greater degree of subservience from the Secretariat of the UN. After the Cold War UN secretaries-general were expected to act as loyal US stewards. This would start with the Ghanaian UN career bureaucrat Kofi Annan.

Kofi Annan: An Enabler of “Responsibility to Protect”

To his credit Annan is a shrewd diplomatic figure that knows how to sit on the fence, but he has cunningly served the US while appearing circumvent. Aside from the public reports about the involvement of Annan and his son Kojo in the UN’s Iraq oil-for-food scandal, the former secretary-general has a history of legitimizing US interventionism and the occupation of other UN members. Career US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who was one of the central figures involved in the balkanization of Yugoslavia, praised Annan as one of the most supportive figures for Washington’s foreign policy in the Balkans. This is why Boutros Boutros-Ghali was pushed aside from the secretary-generalship of the UN by Washington’s veto to make way for Annan.

Annan did Washington’s bidding in the French-speaking Caribbean island-republic of Haiti. He followed the script of George W. Bush Jr. and the neo-cons to a tee in Haiti and legitimized the US-led coup involving Canada and France that removed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He would criminally give Washington the cover of the United Nations in the occupation of Haiti.

Kofi Annan was also instrumental in helping to put together the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine with Canadian diplomats to justify foreign military intervention. Two years after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq he would give his rubber stamp to R2P in 2005, which would merely become a reinvented term replacing NATO’s “humanitarian intervention.” Before Annan was appointed as the joint peace envoy of the Arab League and United Nations to resolve the Syria crisis he participated as a panelist in a discussion about R2P and interventionism on November 4, 2011. The event is important, because it gives an idea of where Annan stands.

The panel (Responsibility to Protect – 10 Years On: Reflections on its Past, Present and Future) was undeniably supportive of R2P and NATO. Annan’s comments were no exception. The former secretary-general and soon-to-be peace envoy told the audience that he held a sympathetic position towards military intervention by the US and NATO. He specifically told the audience that he supported NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and he tacitly gave his support to a similar scenario in Syria. Two of the figures involved in the event, Allan Rock (president of the University of Ottawa and former Canadian ambassador to the UN) and Lloyd Axworthy (president of the University of Winnipeg and the former Canadian foreign minister), co-authored an article about R2P praising the war in Libya as a victory for R2P a week earlier in preparation for Annan’s arrival to Ottawa.

Ban Ki-moon: An Executioner of “Responsibility to Protect”

The South Korean diplomat Ban Ki-moon is even more of an Atlanticist steward than Annan. His record has been very abysmal. One of the first things he did in 2007 was to join the US in criticizing the nations of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for “singling out Israel” for its human rights violations.

In 2008, Ban Ki-moon would secretly negotiate and sign a cooperation agreement with NATO. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would express shock and the Kremlin would be angered by Ban Ki-moon’s conniving. R2P would be central to the cooperation agreement between NATO and the UN Secretariat. NATO’s “humanitarian intervention” was shifted to a worldwide level through the cover of potential military intervention under the banner of the UN.

Moreover, this tool of intervention could only be harnessed and authorized by the undemocratic UN Security Council and its veto-wielding members. In parallel the under secretary-general posts for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief were handed over to British career diplomats, one of which is Valerie Amos who has sinisterly tried to bypass the Syrian government in establishing ties with Syrian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

In 2011, Ban Ki-moon took steps to personally lobby and pressure all the countries of the Mediterranean Sea to support Israel and prevent any humanitarian aid from reaching the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by ship. Ban Ki-moon ignored Tel Aviv’s illegal military blockade of Gaza and its violation of international law. Instead in Orwellian terms he demanded for the enforcement of the illegal Israeli blockade, which he called the “legal channels of the Israeli government pertaining to the flow of goods and aid” to Gazans. In 2012, Ban Ki-moon also refused to meet the representatives of the families of Palestinian victims and captives inside Israel while he was visiting Gaza. Inversely, Ban Ki-moon made personal efforts to secure the release of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. As a result of Ban Ki-moon’s bias many Palestinians hurled shoes and stones at his UN convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip.

Every nuance in Ban Ki-moon’s voice and every line in his statements serve Washington’s interests. Before the secretary-general even left to Tehran for the NAM summit, his spokesman Farhan Haq told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that his boss was going to Tehran as part of his responsibilities and that the visit “does not confer legitimacy” on his Iranian hosts. Giving political evaluations of this type about the legitimacy of any government is a breach of the mandate of a UN secretary-general, who is supposed to be a neutral figure and moderator representing all the members of the UN. Moreover, Ban Ki-moon would go out of his way to defend Israel at the NAM summit. His speech would also be coordinated with the politicized report of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which was meant to tarnish Tehran’s image during the NAM summit.

In regards to both Libya and Syria, Ban Ki-moon has followed the US and NATO script for R2P and regime change. When a major propaganda effort was launched against Syria following the Houla Massacre, Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials quickly followed the US line and condemned Damascus at a special session of the UN General Assembly in New York City. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s June 8 condemnation was made even though it was widely documented that anti-government forces were responsible for the murders in Houla.

The top UN official would say that every passing day was bringing “new additions to the grim catalogue of atrocities: assaults against civilians, brutal human rights violations, mass arrests, torture, execution-style killings of whole families” in Syria. He would conclude that the Syrian government had “lost all legitimacy” and had to step aside. Again this was another violation of the neutral position that the secretary-general of the UN is mandated to espouse.

Jeffrey Feltman: The Real Secretary-General of the United Nations?

Ban Ki-moon’s appointment of the hollow and comical US career diplomat Jeffrey Feltman as the UN under secretary-general for political affairs is just one of his latest moves that serve US interests. Feltman, a shameless careerist who has done whatever he could to promote himself, has been exclusively in the service of justifying the unjustifiable and pretending to be an expert on the Middle East. As a top US diplomat in the Middle East, unlike his counterparts from other countries he failed to master any of the local languages in the region. Moreover, he was complicit in the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon and a US attaché to two foreign occupations.

Like Robert Gates, Feltman is a carryover to the Obama Administration from the Bush Jr. Administration. He was a special assistant to American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) heavyweight Martin Indyk in Israel and a representative in the US Consulate General in Jerusalem. Everything he knows about the Middle East is shaped and spoon-fed to him by the biased views of AIPAC. He was the representative of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Anglo-American occupied Iraq and later a central force for promoting sectarian hate and division in Lebanon as the US ambassador in Beirut before he was promoted to the job of US assistant-secretary of state responsible for the Middle East. The UN’s Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), a political circus that Washington has tried to use to indict and isolate first Syria and then later Hezbollah, is widely known to be his pet project.

Before Feltman even arrived in Tehran, one of the first things he did was to declare that Iran was sending weapons to Syria. This was immediately picked up by his friends (contacts) in the Israeli media who have favored him over the years as one of Israel’s most ardent supporters. Among others, the Israeli media also slyly tried to mention Feltman’s name as less as possible and instead attribute his statement to the entire United Nations as a means of hiding the bias source of the statements and giving his account further weight.

Feltman’s appointment by Ban Ki-moon shows just how much control Washington has over the UN Secretariat. His appointment as the individual responsible for “political affairs” says a lot about the political perspective that the UN Secretariat either has or will adopt. If Hillary Clinton had ordered US officials to spy on Ban Ki-moon as was reported in 2010, there should also be no doubt that Jeffery Feltman was monitoring Ban Ki-moon in Tehran for the US Department of State and that Feltman will brief Washington about the NAM summit. In essence Feltman was the informal representative of the US at the NAM summit. It is also a very legitimate question to ask whether Feltman or Ban Ki-moon is in charge of the UN Secretariat.

Iran had announced that it intended to propose a peace plan, with the support of Russia and China, to end the Syrian crisis on the sidelines of the NAM conference. America’s emissaries were at the summit too. The invitation of the Turks to the NAM summit and the presence of Feltman and the officials of the Arab countries that are part of the siege against Damascus, such as Qatar’s Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, are all very likely to have ties to negotiations over Syria. Same goes for the presence of Egypt’s Morsi. The US and its clients have realized that their plans in Syria have not gone through and this could secretly have brought them to the table in Tehran or elsewhere in the future.

A New Alternative to the UN is Needed

The “real” international community slapped the Obama Administration in the face from Tehran. The US and all the UN structures and agencies, including the IAEA, under Washington’s control were retorted when all of the NAM’s one hundred and twenty members unanimously supported the Iranian nuclear energy program and declared their opposition to the unilateral sanctions against Iran in their final communiqué. There is still, however, more that is needed. As long as the United Nations is not reformed these very same countries will be walking in the shadows of the US and its allies from NATOistan in the hallways of the United Nations.

The problems go beyond the Security Council. The Secretariat is also a part of the problem. Washington will turn to the UN Secretariat more and more as the Russians and Chinese begin to challenge the US and its allies at the Security Council.

The UN has become even more contaminated by Atlanticist projects to use it to legitimize and launch imperialist military campaigns to enforce a declining system of privilege and unjust global governance that Washington heads. The motivations behind the drafting and institutionalizing of R2P at the UN are aimed at helping to prevent this decline. This is why that either reform or an alternative to the United Nations is needed now more than ever.

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