Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

"The world actually still likes Canada; they don't like Stephen Harper"

The Galloping Beaver: The day the world rejected Stephen Harper
The global community made a decision. They decided that Stephen Harper
was someone they would rather not have at the table. It was not about
Canada - it was about him and his reckless foreign policy.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Speech at the UN Conference on Racism

Full Text of President Ahmadinejad's Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism | Foreign Policy Journal

After reading many of the news stories in Western MSM about this speech, you may be surprised at what Ahmadinejad actually said.

Click the link for the full speech.


The UN conference on anti-racism

How many people actually read Ahmadinejad’s speech? « Paulitics

... Why the white, wealthy, European world would be unwilling to talk openly about issues with which they’ve long had a checkered past is obvious.  The U.S. has long bristled at even the suggestion that the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are owed reparations.  The far-right Italian government is currently in the process of rounding up and “tagging” Gypsies once again and thus obviously does not want to participate in the Durban discussions on Gypsies.  The Canadian, Australian, American and New Zealand governments were the only governments in the entire world to reject the UN declaration on the rights of Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples and thus did not want to be a part of Durban’s discussions on Aboriginal peoples.  And the Israel government doesn’t want to talk about a whole host of issues on which it has long been in violation of UN declarations and Geneva Convention rights (notably the injunctions against acquiring land through military conquest, the right of refugees to return to their homes, nuclear weapons, the slaughter of refugees and engaging in illegal warfare).
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Ban appalled by Gaza's damage

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Ban 'appalled' by Gaza's damage

Watch the videos at the link, and read the news story.

Unfortunately, the UN can not do much about Israel's war crimes against Palestine. It is pretty much up to the USA to reign in Israel.
But the Israeli lobby in the USA is very very strong, so the genocide will continue.

UN chief visits Gaza, urges probe