{"id":25418,"date":"2017-09-09T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:57:38","slug":"u-n-enablers-of-aggressive-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25418","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Enablers of \u2018Aggressive War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.N. Enablers of \u2018Aggressive War\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Special Report:<\/strong> U.N. investigative reports, like a new one condemning Syria for alleged sarin use, are received as impartial and credible, but are often just more war propaganda from compromised bureaucrats, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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Many people still want to believe that the United Nations engages in impartial investigations and thus is more trustworthy than, say, self-interested governments, whether Russia or the United States. But trust in U.N. agencies is no longer well placed; whatever independence they may have once had has been broken, a reality relevant to recent \u201cinvestigations\u201d of Syrian chemical weapons use.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is also the larger issue of the United Nations\u2019 peculiar silence about one of its primary and original responsibilities, shouldered after the horrors of World War II \u2013 to stop wars of aggression, which today include \u201cregime change\u201d wars organized, funded and armed by the United States and other Western powers, such as the Iraq invasion in 2003, the overthrow of the Libyan government in 2011, and a series of proxy wars including the ongoing Syrian conflict.<\/p>\n

After World War II, the Nuremberg Tribunals declared that a \u201cwar of aggression \u2026 is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

That recognition became a guiding principle of the United Nations Charter, which specifically prohibits aggression or even threats of aggression against sovereign states.<\/p>\n

The Charter declares in Article One that it is a chief U.N. purpose \u201cto take effective collective measures \u2026 for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace.\u201d Article Two, which defines the appropriate behavior of U.N. members, adds that \u201cAll Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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U.N. Enablers of \u2018Aggressive War\u2019 Special Report: U.N. investigative reports, like a new one condemning Syria for alleged sarin use, are received as impartial and credible, but are often just more war propaganda from compromised bureaucrats, reports Robert Parry. Many people still want to believe that the United Nations engages in impartial investigations and thus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,7203,9101,776,822,826,827,834,862],"class_list":["post-25418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-robert-parry","tag-sarin-gas","tag-syria","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25419,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions\/25419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}