{"id":13256,"date":"2015-10-11T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13256"},"modified":"2015-10-11T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T12:48:12","slug":"how-do-gooders-can-do-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13256","title":{"rendered":"How Do-Gooders Can Do Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/10\/10\/how-do-gooders-can-do-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Do-Gooders Can Do Bad<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">\u201cHuman rights\u201d organizations have become purveyors of bloody chaos as they advocate Western big-power military attacks on weak countries in the name of \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d \u2013 one of several\u00a0purportedly well-intentioned strategies gone awry \u2013 as Coleen Rowley and Diana Johnstone describe.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Organizers and participants in the \u201cCreating a Workable World\u201d conference (held this weekend at the University of Minnesota) are undoubtedly sincere. No one wants to live in an unworkable world. The sponsoring World Federalist Movement has historically exercised a strong attraction on progressives, appealing to their generous sentiments and wish for world peace.<\/p>\n<p>However, such a grand, overarching ideal as world federalism or global democracy must be evaluated in light of current circumstances and its track record.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gaddafi-death.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10332\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/gaddafi-death-300x168.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi shortly before he was murdered on Oct. 20, 2011.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of World War II, it was widely believed that nationalism was the main cause of the horrors that had just devastated much of the world. It was easy to imagine that abolishing nation states would be a step toward ending wars by removing their cause. This sentiment was particularly strong in Western Europe, forming the ideological foundation of the movement that led to European integration, now embodied in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>In that same period, there was a historic movement going in the opposite direction: the national liberation movements in various colonized countries of the Third World. The political drive for national liberation from European powers \u2014 Britain, France, the Netherlands \u2014 contributed to establishing national sovereignty as the foundation of world peace, by outlawing aggression. Newly liberated Third World countries felt protected by the principle of national sovereignty, seeing it as essential to independence and even to survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do-Gooders Can Do Bad \u201cHuman rights\u201d organizations have become purveyors of bloody chaos as they advocate Western big-power military attacks on weak countries in the name of \u201cresponsibility to protect\u201d \u2013 one of several\u00a0purportedly well-intentioned strategies gone awry \u2013 as Coleen Rowley and Diana Johnstone describe. 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