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Security Council Veto Power
by Stephen Lendman
Article 27 of the UN Charter states:
“1. Each member of the Security
Council shall have one vote.
2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members.
3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.”
Five countries were granted special status: America, Britain, China, France and the former Soviet Union - now the Russian Federation. They’re permanent Security Council members with special voting power known as the “right to veto” SC measures.
Time for the Nuclear Option: Raining Money on Main Street
by Ellen Brown
Predictions are that we will soon be seeing the “nuclear option” — central bank-created money injected directly into the real economy. All other options having failed, governments will be reduced to issuing money outright to cover budget deficits. So warns a September 18 article on ZeroHedge titled “It Begins: Australia’s Largest Investment Bank Just Said ‘Helicopter Money’ Is 12-18 Months Away.”
Money reformers will say it’s about time. Virtually all money today is created as bank debt, but people can no longer take on more debt. The money supply has shrunk along with people’s ability to borrow new money into existence. Quantitative easing (QE) attempts to re-inflate the money supply by giving money to banks to create more debt, but that policy has failed. It’s time to try dropping some debt-free money on Main Street.
Where Will It End? More Israeli Murders
by Stephen Lendman
Israel intends imprisoning Palestinian youths and children up to 20 years for stone-throwing. Nonviolent protesters are brutally attacked. Soldiers routinely murder Palestinians unaccountably.
Police now may use live fire indiscriminately, justifying it by inventing pretexts. Settlers commit near-daily violence and/or vandalism with impunity. Investigations when conducted are whitewashed.
Zionist zealots responsible for immolating Dawabsha family members are free to kill again - even though Israeli authorities identified them. Arrests didn’t follow.
On Tuesday, a Palestinian youth named Dia’ Abdul-Halim died - or was he killed? Israeli government officials notoriously lie. So do police and military sources.
Despotic Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel
by Stephen Lendman
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most ruthless regimes, a crime family dictatorship masquerading as legitimate governance. It’s notorious for public beheadings, whippings, torture, wars of aggression and other lawless actions.
Ruling authorities viciously target human rights supporters, imprisoning them for political reasons, brutalizing them. Public executions often follow.
State terror is official policy. Democracy is prohibited. Elections when held are farcical. Ruling family thugs run things.
America’s closest Arab ally lops off more heads than ISIS, by a wide margin, on average one every four days, along with other horrendous forms of punishment - for political reasons, not crimes committed.
A New Voice for the U.S. Aristocracy Rises in Europe
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
Europe, which has been controlled uncontested by the U.S., after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, is now starting to split between the U.S. and Russia; and the U.S. aristocracy are investing increasingly in European propaganda-operations so as to retain their existing control.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has driven out of Russia many conservative and even fascist media-operations from the U.S. and Europe; and on September 17th those media included Germany’s Axel Springer, which, according to Russia’s interfax, was on that day sold to Russia’s Artcom Media, in a deal whose details are not being publicly disclosed. But, included in the reported deal was Springer’s property, the Russian edition of the ultra-conservative FORBES magazine, which, in a recent article,portrays Putin as a “kleptocrat” and advises wealthy Russians to relocate promptly abroad in order to avoid an imminent planned coup that will bring him down. The U.S. wants to bring ‘democracy’ to Russia, to replace Putin’s government. The current approval rating for Putin in Russia is over 80%, but America’s aristocrats think they have a better idea: ‘democracy’ American-style, such as in today’s Ukraine. (The head of the “private CIA” firm Stratfor even called that one “the most blatant coup in history.” The U.S. aristocracy just loves such ‘democracy.')
Jeremy Corbyn’s Economic Vision
by Stephen Lendman
America, Israel and Britain are the developed world’s most unequal countries. Wealth disparity in all three are extreme and widening - government-sponsored hellishness for their ordinary citizens, finding it increasingly harder to get by on stagnating low incomes, reduced benefits and rising cost of food, shelter, healthcare and other essentials.
Western governments overall are dismissive of their needs - serving monied interests exclusively at the expense of popular ones, heading their nations for societies unfit to live in, a prescription for dystopian hell.
Corbyn’s economic vision is polar opposite, promoting equity, fairness and justice entirely absent in today’s Britain. Labour leadership will “build a strong, growing economy that works for all, not by increasing poverty,” he said.
America: The World’s Greatest Threat
by Stephen Lendman
All US presidents at least since WW II were unindicted war criminals, Obama the latest in a long line of rogue leaders, reflecting America’s odious history, systematically pursuing empire, ravaging and destroying one country after another, remaining unaccountable for his high crimes.
Whoever succeeds him in 2017 will continue the same reckless policies, maybe overstepping enough to launch WW III, potential armageddon if occurs.
All presidential aspirants from both parties favor endless wars of conquest. Peace is anathema. Maintaining America’s menacing military global footprint is prioritized, its empire of bases, its alliances with other rogue states, its rage to dominate unchallenged - the greatest threat to world security and stability.
US Imperial Wars Responsible for Refugee Crisis
by Stephen Lendman
Human floods undertake hazardous journeys to new countries - seeking safe havens away from war-torn countries, desperate to get there and begin new lives.
Bipartisan US imperial policies bear full responsibility - endless wars of aggression, devastating targeted countries, displacing tens of millions. Complicit NATO partners and rogue Arab states share guilt.
As long as conflicts continue, human floods of desperate people will follow, internally or externally displaced, enduring enormous hardships, getting pathetically little aid when most needed.
Washington’s response to its culpability for the greatest refugee crisis since WW II is largely dismissive - ignoring its responsibility to help desperate people, paying lip service in addressing it with token amounts of aid, disgracefully little for emergency conditions, needing a large-scale Marshall Plan-type response, America, Canada and European countries contributing proportionately.
Obama and Putin to Meet at UN
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, September 28, both leaders will meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly’s 70th session, an array of world leaders to address the world body.
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed it, saying “(a) meeting with Obama has been coordinated.” When asked what both leaders will discuss, he responded “I’ll give you three guesses.”
Restoring peace and stability to war-torn Syria and Donbass top Putin’s geopolitical agenda - along with enlisting world community support to combat ISIS and other takfiri terrorists in Syria and Iraq and the risk of their spread without a united effort to defeat them. Both leaders rarely speak, less often meet, the last time briefly in November 2014 at the Beijing, China-hosted APEC summit. No detailed meeting was held. Their longest discussion was a 15-minute encounter during June 2014 D-Day commemorations in Normandy.
Arab World and the Remaking of Global Politics
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Towards Understanding the Political Problems
And here is the dilemma we face as a civilization. We march collectively toward self-annihilation. Corporate capitalism, if left unchecked, will kill us. Yet we refuse, because we cannot think and no longer listen to those who do think, to see what is about to happen to us. We have created entertaining mechanisms to obscure and silence the harsh truths, from climate change to the collapse of globalization to our enslavement to corporate power that will mean our self-destruction. If we can do nothing else we must, even as individuals nurture the private dialogue and the solitude that make thought possible. It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
(Chris Hedges - Author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (“How to Think”, Common Dreams).
Are there any global leaders to extend moral and intellectual security to the beleaguered mankind? Global political affairs are fast becoming a theater of absurdity. In a rational spectrum, leaders are not leading; large segments of the global mankind are enduring unthinkable moral and intellectual sickness as political problems are pilling up to crush the human soul and body. All wars affect people. The global community wonders where to look for change and peacemaking that is nowhere visible on the political horizon.
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