North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?
?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?
US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty Anti-Empire >>
Promoting Human Rights in IrelandHuman Rights in Ireland >>
I?ll Take the High Road Thu Jun 12, 2025 19:00 | Dr James Allan James Allan thinks he has discovered a new cure for jetlag ? a seven-day walking holiday through the Scottish highlands. You can't tell whether you're tired from the trek or the flight!
The post I’ll Take the High Road appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Abortion Up to Birth by the Back Door Thu Jun 12, 2025 17:00 | Dr Elizabeth Evans The lives of the most vulnerable are currently under grave threat from two bills going through Parliament, says Dr Elizabeth Evans. Self-administered abortion right up to birth may be legalised along with assisted suicide.
The post Abortion Up to Birth by the Back Door appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Is Xi Jinping About to Be Pushed Out? Thu Jun 12, 2025 15:33 | Will Jones Is Chinese President Xi Jinping ? the great architect of the Covid lockdowns ? about to be defenestrated? Those are the rumours coming out of China ? and the fallout from the lockdowns is part of the reason.
The post Is Xi Jinping About to Be Pushed Out? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Importing Even More Nurses Won?t Fix the NHS Thu Jun 12, 2025 13:32 | Dr Roger Watson Rachel Reeves is once again cutting funding for training nurses, leaving us even more dependent on importing them. This is no way to fix the NHS, where 30% of nurses are already from overseas, says Prof Roger Watson.
The post Importing Even More Nurses Won’t Fix the NHS appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Hamas ?Kills Five Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Aid Workers? and ?May Have Taken Others Hostage? Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:11 | Will Jones At least five Palestinians working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation have been killed in an ambush by Hamas terrorists and others may have been taken hostage, the GHF has said.
The post Hamas “Kills Five Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Aid Workers” and “May Have Taken Others Hostage” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en
Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en
The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en Voltaire Network >>
|
The United Nations' Role in Peace and War.
international |
anti-war / imperialism |
other press
Monday December 14, 2009 06:36 by Denis Halliday

"The UN of the arms dealers - the most disreputable and yet profitable business on earth."
"As Bill Clinton and Madame Albright liked to say – the United Nations is there to further the best interests – of US foreign policy. However, to be fair, other States undoubtedly see it much the same way, but are more discrete and lack ambitions and military capacity for global empire!
And now we have President Obama, who wants to work with the United Nations and be a player rather than to dominate and control. Sounds good. We await the reality as he expands the war in Afghanistan, keeps Bagram airbase prison full of the tortured and uncharged, finishes off the destruction of Iraq, refuses to end the occupation of Okinawa, has the thick skin to criticize China for human rights abuses when America itself has a deplorable record, and now militarily threatens Iran! Not exactly the sort of new player we had hoped for perhaps! But let’s keep our fingers crossed..."
 The United Nations' Role in Peace and War.
"The UN of the arms dealers - the most disreputable and yet profitable business on earth."
by Denis Halliday
Global Research Public Lecture, Montreal, December 1, 2009
Some times the New York Times does the right thing. This morning the Editorial (December 1, 2009) condemned the Swiss referendum vote to prohibit the construction of minarets on Mosques throughout the country. And on the Op. Ed. Page Bob Herbert quoted Eisenhower “ I hate war, as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, it futility, its stupidity.” He added, and “:every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.”
And especially thank you Professor Chossudovsky for this opportunity to speak in Montreal. And to listen, and to learn from audience reaction and comments.
As you may have guessed – this is not intended to be a ‘feel good’ review of the UN. We are here to think, and consider something different, something better. Something representative, something respectful of international law: committed to equality of nations and people. An organization that really believes in a single standard of behaviour and treatment for all... and not double standards as of now.
Rest of Lecture Here:
Dec 1 2009 Montreal Lecture by Denis Halliday:
"The UN of the arms dealers - the most disreputable and yet profitable business on earth."
|