What
Does The UN Have to Do
With
Right vs. Wrong?
By
Junious Ricardo Stanton
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The
Constitution makes it clear that if we must counter a
threat to our security, that authority must come from
the U. S. Congress. Those who believe, and many
sincerely do, that the United Nations serves a useful
function, argue that ignoring the United Nations at this
juncture will surely make it irrelevant. Even with my
opposition to the United Nations, I can hardly be
pleased that its irrelevancy might come about because of
our rush to war against a nation that has not aggressed
against us nor poses any threat to us. From my viewpoint
the worst scenario would be for the United Nations to
sanction this war, which may well occur if we offer
enough U.S. taxpayer money and Iraqi oil to the
reluctant countries. If that happens we could be looking
at another 58-year occupation, expanded Middle East
chaos, or a dangerous spread of hostilities to all of
Asia or even further.--Texas Congressman Ron Paul |
The Bush administration appears to be scrambling to not lose
face as its' blatant imperialism against the people of Iraq
derails and his policy of pre-emptive aggression unravels. Many
people were reluctant to support Bush' war without U.N. or
allied support. The fact is, at this juncture Bush has neither.
Only Britain, AmeriKKKa's lapdog, Spain and Italy are in Bush's
corner. Even Israel which would be a prime beneficiary of a
regime change in Iraq, and a U.S. occupational force in the
region must, for political reasons, recuse itself from high
profile support of Bush's agenda.
The massive anti-war demonstrations around the world even
before the invasion of Iraq and Turkey's courageous rejection of
US foreign aid bribes and their refusal to allow AmeriKKKan
troops to use Turkey as a staging ground for an assault on Iraq
seriously undermined Bush's war plans. Revelations Secretary of
State Colin Powell's "irrefutable intelligence" about
Iraqi WMD and links to international terrorism were taken from a
graduate student's out dated research paper and that Condoleeza
Rice ordered "dirty tricks" against six key Security
Council members to intimidate them into siding with the U.S. on
a new war resolution have further damaged the administration's
credibility, despite the pliant mainstream media's incessant
pounding of war drums.
What Bush & Co. arrogantly refused to entertain was that
the vast majority of the world's inhabitants wouldn't approve of
or support this war and would actively oppose it! Bush attempted
to justify this war by misleading folks into believing Iraq was
a threat to the US and Saddam Hussein had supported
international terrorists, something his CIA has repeatedly
denied! Colin Powell gained brownie points with the AmeriKKKan
public by urging restraint and by counseling going through the
UN as a way to build a broad multilateral coalition and
favorable PR. Most people concurred thinking that if the UN
supported the US position they too would back it.
My question is this, if there is no evidence Iraq is a threat
to AmeriKKKa nor is there any proof Saddam Hussein supports
international terrorism, would people still support this war
even if Bush & Co had been successful in convincing the UN
to go along with their charade? Would the people who oppose
Bush's imperialist agenda have acquiesced just because the UN
gave their okay and sanctioned a regime change and occupation of
Iraq thereby approving AmeriKKKa's expropriation of Iraqi oil
fields? Right is right and wrong is wrong! Why would this war be
any less immoral or disastrous just because the UN Security
Council caved in to Bush's wishes?
As this scenario played itself out I started thinking about
what is it the proponents of the New World Order really want? Is
it Iraqi oil, geo-strategic positioning in the region, or people
to look to the United Nations as a vehicle for to solve global
problems? Could Bush hit the trifecta again and get all three?
What better way to get rank and file AmeriKKKans who for the
most part are extremely jingoistic to think outside their
nationalistic box, to think in terms of an international
organization to resolve a pressing issue like the pending war in
Iraq than to have one of the "cooler heads" within an
insanely imperialistic administration suggest AmeriKKKa seek UN
support for their nefarious plans?
Yes we live in a global community but the people pushing for
a New World Order have an entirely different agenda. Their goal
is to surreptitiously rule the world by controlling all of its
resources, lands and labor. Bush and Co. are proponents of the
New World Order just as his father and Bill Clinton were (it's
not about political party, it’s about class affiliations).
What if this Iraq issue was really designed to get Joe and Jane
Sixpack more comfortable with the United Nations dictating or
influencing AmeriKKKan foreign policy?
Right is right and wrong is wrong. Bush is wrong, this war
and the other interventions about to jump off in Columbia and
the Philippines are wrong. They are wrong because neither the
people of Columbia nor the rebels there have done anything to
AmeriKKKans. Nor have the rebels in the Philippines done
anything to us. If a course of action or government policy is
wrong or immoral, it shouldn't matter who supports it, if it is
wrong the people should refuse to authorize, sanction or support
the government or its immoral laws. The same thing goes for the
United Nations!
The United Nations has no real power, if they did they'd
enforce sanctions against nations like Israel who have also
disobeyed unanimous UN resolutions! Right is right and wrong is
wrong. Where do we stand, which side are we on, the side of
right or the side of wrong? Do we cross over to the side of
wrong just because the UN or George Bush says so? I don't think
so! Remember genocide against the indigenous inhabitants and the
kidnapping and enslavement of Africans were sanctioned by the
AmeriKKKan government and carried out by people who thought they
were being law abiding citizens. Rosa Parks broke the law by
refusing to give up her seat on the bus. In doing so she helped
break the back of AmeriKKKan racial cast and oppression. Here's
another scary thought, everything Hitler did in Germany was
legal!
POSITIVELY BLACK 3/6/03
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
By Gil Scott Heron
Shortly after we republished The Vulture and The Nigger Factory, Gil started to tell me about The Last Holiday, an account he was writing of a multi-city tour that he ended up doing with Stevie Wonder in late 1980 and early 1981. Originally Bob Marley was meant to be playing the tour that Stevie Wonder had conceived as a way of trying to force legislation to make Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. At the time, Marley was dying of cancer, so Gil was asked to do the first six dates. He ended up doing all 41. And Dr King's birthday ended up becoming a national holiday ("The Last Holiday because America can't afford to have another national holiday"), but Gil always felt that Stevie never got the recognition he deserved and that his story needed to be told. The first chapters of this book were given to me in New York when Gil was living in the Chelsea Hotel. Among the pages was a chapter called Deadline that recounts the night they played Oakland, California, 8 December; it was also the night that John Lennon was murdered. Gil uses Lennon's violent end as a brilliant parallel to Dr King's assassination and as a biting commentary on the constraints that sometimes lead to newspapers getting things wrong. —Jamie Byng, Guardian / Gil_reads_"Deadline" (audio) |
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World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
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Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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