DEMOCRATIC WORLD FEDERALISTS
PEACEFUL | JUST | SUSTAINABLE | WORLD
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Articles for this Issue:
US global militarism shows contempt for the United Nations
Quotes on War and Peace, the UN, and the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, PhD
Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Abolish the CIA
Eve Ottenberg
A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
TJ Coles
Russian-American nuclear physicist alarmed over Ukraine
It's time for Biden to follow in the steps of Nixon and resign
Edward Lozansky
Growing evidence that the U.S. is not a real democracy
How 'Democracies' Degenerate Into Minoritarian Right-Wing
Governments (Aristocracies)
Eric Zuesse
Einstein on Peace: "...I have become a kind of enfant terrible in my new homeland, due to my inability to keep silent and to swallow everything that happens there." "Unfortunately, the most farsighted among the people in this country have been so intimidated by the pseudo-patriotic pressures to which they have been exposed that their scope for effective action has been greatly reduced."
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July 7, 2022
Quotes on War and Peace, the UN, and the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, PhD
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>You can smell it. US Empire doubling down on war preparations.
>Ukraine is now armed with over 40 billion US dollars (and more) in order for Ukrainians to die to the last man to weaken Russia. American promises for military support to Taiwan so they too can die for Empire...to weaken China.
>Hitler's Nazis wanted to conquer the world, and the US ruling regime, claiming to be the "Exceptional" nation, has picked up where Hitler left off.
>Throughout history there are nations whose (sociopathic) leadership out of greed or lust for power, attempt to take advantage of the Other. We saw this with Hitler and the Nazis. The US deep state government has a long history of criminal aggression by direct military invasion, by illegal economic warfare (sanctions), or by covert operations to overthrow governments it doesn't like, often aimed at countries that prefer a socialist economic model.
What to do to avert World War?
Peace activists should consider joining forces with the United Nations General Assembly which needs outside help to be empowered. HOW? They could follow the Earth Constitution's design which would for the first time give voting rights to the 188 nations in the UN who have been deprived of this basic democratic process.
>A "new UN" under the Earth Constitution would give the world hope for avoiding wars and nuclear war. While many nations are not really "democratic" (including the USA which is an oligarchy where money rules), under the Earth Constitution there would be democratic voting on global issues where all nations get a vote (House of Nations) on global affairs.
Coping with paranoia and sociopaths on the world stage
>Because of the "sovereign equality" principle in the UN Charter (Article 2-1), each nation has the right of control within its borders including privacy and secrecy. Such extreme sovereignty is a natural breeding ground for paranoia, justified and unjustified. Although most nations live peacefully with each other, there are always a "few bad apples." In the UN system if a nation happens to be ruled by sociopaths or psychopaths, other nations become understandably fearful. They are not sure such a nation can be trusted, and so the nations spy on each other and build up their armed forces.
>Only in a democratic world federation will the nations accept open inspections everywhere with no exceptions. Hence, a world federal union governing structure is an absolute necessity. Psychologically we need to dissolve paranoia and build trust. This will require abolishing intelligence agencies such as the CIA, Mossad, MI6 and FSB whose secret operations cause havoc and fear rather than trust.
>We must constitutionalize the UN. The Charter's Article 109-3 opens that door by requiring a review of the UN Charter according to the Center for UN Constitutional Research. The legally required review which has yet to be conducted can be launched by the UN General Assembly.
Demanding an end to endless wars (Where's the UN?)
>Why cannot the United Nations intervene when U.S. foreign policy (or any other government) violates international law? The generals at the Pentagon, the President, and the CIA are not held accountable for illegally overthrowing governments, or for military invasions of other nations. They are above the law even when responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Why? The problem lies in the obsolete and defective UN Charter.
>The Permanent-5 nations who hold veto voting power on the UN Security Council (which includes the U.S. and Russia) are able to veto any attempt to legally prosecute them for world crimes. In addition, the P-5 avoid prosecution for themselves by refusing to participate in the International Criminal Court.
>The UN General Assembly must be honest about this disgraceful situation with the P-5. It is long past time for the UNGA to launch a review of the Charter to identify what's wrong. Democratic World Federalists, a peace activist think tank, calls the strategy demanding UN Charter Review THE SAN FRANCISCO PROMISE.
The Earth Constitution provides a wisely designed World Judiciary with Enforcement Powers, a critical feature the UN Charter lacks. Let the UN compare the features of the Earth Constitution to those in the present UN Charter. A "new UN" under the Earth Constitution could be born, one with the tools needed to end war and eliminate the danger of a nuclear nightmare.
-- R. Kotila, PhD (Quotes lightly edited from
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Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Jeffrey D. Sachs
If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the U.S. wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is steering Ukraine, the U.S. and the European Union towards yet another geopolitical debacle. If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles.
The main message of the neocons is that the U.S. must predominate in military power in every region of the world and must confront rising regional powers that could someday challenge U.S. global or regional dominance, most important Russia and China. For this purpose, U.S. military force should be pre-positioned in hundreds of military bases around the world and the U.S. should be prepared to lead wars of choice as necessary. The United Nations is to be used by the U.S. only when useful for U.S. purposes...READ MORE
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Abolish the CIA
Eve Ottenberg
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Richard Helms in the White House Cabinet Room, March 27, 1968. Photo: White House. |
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EXCERPTS: > "A new book proves it. Jefferson Morley’s Scorpion’s Dance, the President, the Spymaster and Watergate, details decades of CIA funny-business, and there was loads of it. Indeed, if you ever wonder how the world got to be such a mess and who’s responsible, read this book. And there’s no reason to believe the nonsense has stopped or that somehow, despite the Taliban, the CIA is just quietly minding its own business and watering its poppy fields in Afghanistan."
>"... they plummeted to rock bottom under Joe “Russian Regime Change” Biden: Thanks to CIA and U.S. special forces in Ukraine, humanity gets to peer over the abyss at nuclear annihilation."
>"... According to the New York Times June 25, “some CIA personnel have continued to operate in [Ukraine] secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces.”
>“...As usual, it appears that the administration wants to have it both ways: assure the American people that it is being ‘restrained’ and that we are not ‘at war’ with the Russians, but doing everything but planting a U.S. soldier and flag inside Ukraine,” wrote Kelley Vlahos in the June 27 Responsible Statecraft." "...Who’s rolling the dice in that game? The CIA of course, just the sort of amoral gang dedicated to its own perpetuation regardless of cost that you don’t want anywhere near the borders of a nuclear-armed nation."
>"This is the agency Helms bequeathed us: Violent, criminal, secretive, lawless, it is an agglomeration of murderers and torturers who rampage across the globe with impunity. Former CIA director Mike Pompeo boasted of the agency that “We lied, we cheated, we stole.” Those, unfortunately, are merely the agency’s misdemeanors. It’s the felonies that should worry you. The CIA not only collaborates with Nazis, it trains them..."...READ MORE
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A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
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US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
EXCERPTS: >Throughout the 1980s, tens of thousands of jihadis from dozens of Muslim-majority countries were flown into the US, Britain, and Pakistan to receive training from the CIA, Green Berets, US Marines, and British SAS and MI6. The foreign extremists later rebranded themselves “al-Qaeda” and launched a series of spectacularly bloody attacks on strategically significant targets that provided justification for a global “war on terror” that continues to serve as ideological cover for contemporary US hegemony.
>The multi-billion-dollar CIA operation to arm and train the so-called freedom fighters, or Afghan mujahedin, was known as Operation Cyclone. Successive administrations repeated the pattern in the 2010s, initiating Operation Timber Sycamore in a failed effort to depose Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Operation Mermaid Dawn before it in a successful effort to remove Muammar Gaddafi and destabilize Libya.
>Today, the CIA, US Special Forces, and other branches of government are training regular units in Ukraine. With US support, far-right elements of those units go on to train and recruit for Nazi paramilitary units and gangs. White nationalist Americans are allowed to travel to Ukraine and train paramilitaries and/or receive training, depending on the individual or group. State-corporate media have confirmed the existence of a major CIA training program involving “irregular” (i.e., terrorist) warfare, but we do not yet know the name of the operation...READ MORE
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Russian-American nuclear physicist alarmed over Ukraine
It's time for Biden to follow in the steps of
Nixon and resign
by Edward Lozansky July 4, 2022, Washington Times
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Editor's note: Dr. Edward Lozansky's perspective on the Ukraine dilemma is unique. First of all, he is a former Russian nuclear physicist who knows the dangers of a nuclear war. He was part of the Russian scientific elite until emigrating to the U.S. where he has been one of the strongest advocates for friendship between Russia and the U.S. and for world peace.
OPINION:
EXCERPTS: As a result of the recent G7 and NATO meetings, the world’s “sleepwalking” progress toward a nuclear holocaust got a big boost. And the main reason is President Biden.
Overwhelmed by his long list of domestic problems and declining ratings, he’s seeking to change the subject by hyping the war in Ukraine and demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On one hand, it looks like he is succeeding. All participants in these meetings agreed to pump more money and weapons into Ukraine. Mr. Putin’s name with negative epithets was repeated more frequently than lofty pledges to freedom and democracy.
However, there is one issue that we should all pay attention to since it deals with war and peace: to be more precise, nuclear war! Great power confrontation over Ukraine might be the “spark” that sets off World War III in the way that Serbia was in World War I and Poland in World War II.
Mr. Biden is trying to place all the blame on the Russian president for the tragic events taking place in this country, but maybe he should point his accusing finger at the mirror. It was Mr. Biden as vice president who held a Ukrainian portfolio, and it was he who oversaw the Feb. 22, 2014, illegal coup, which overthrew the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych. The coup was coordinated by the infamous Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt as documented by the recording of the Nuland-Pyatt phone conversation of Feb. 4, i.e. 18 days before the coup, where they discussed the composition of the new Ukrainian government. In it, Ms. Nuland confirms that then-Vice President Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Mr. Biden himself were in the loop.
Well, coups have consequences, and this is what is happening in Ukraine right now, since the main goal of the plotters was to drag Ukraine into NATO and use its territory, including the Crimean peninsula, for military bases. Imagine what the U.S. would do if Russia tried something similar like orchestrating regime change in any country, especially in the Western hemisphere, which would then join a pro-Russian military block...READ MORE
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How 'Democracies' Degenerate Into Minoritarian Right-Wing
Governments (Aristocracies)
Eric Zuesse
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EXCERPTS: >...Then, in 2014, there was finally the first scientific answer to the question of whether America is a democracy or instead a dictatorship, when the first-ever comprehensive political-science study that was ever published on whether the U.S. Government reflects the policy-preferences of the American public or instead of only the very richest Americans found that, “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy”; and, so, “Clearly, when one holds constant net interest-group alignments and the preferences of affluent Americans, it makes very little difference what the general public thinks.”
Some definitions:
Aristocracy = government in hands of a small, privileged, ruling class.
Oligarchy = rule by small-group for corrupt and selfish purposes.
>In other words: America, which nominally is a (limited) democracy, is actually an aristocracy, NOT a democracy at all. Each one of the ways in which America's laws and their enforcement reflect what the country’s billionaires want, but NOT what the country’s public want, those proposed pieces of legislation have become laws just as much, as happens when the billionaires and the public have the same policy-references regarding the given policy-matter, as when they don't. This means that the aristocracy always get policies that are acceptable to them, but the public often do not. ...READ MORE
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DWF Editorial:
ENDING WAR, Obstacles and Solutions
Roger Kotila
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DWF NEWS publishes articles that we believe illustrate the crises that our current United Nations global governing system is unable to handle adequately. War after war after war. Bully nations out of control and who routinely violate international laws and human rights, essentially mocking the UN and its principles.
Earth Constitution federal government (a "new UN" or Earth Constitution government) could likely have prevented the Ukraine war in the first place. There would be no need for NATO, nuclear weapons, or conventional warfare.
Under a federal geopolitical structure such as provided by the Earth Constitution, the nightmare of war between nations could finally be ended. War prevents a nation from dealing adequately with climate change. Individual human rights could also be better protected.
Modern-day slavery, for example, could be investigated and prosecuted worldwide. Finally, world public interest journalists are needed. Democracy requires an adequately informed citizenry. Truth matters.
-- Roger Kotila, Ph.D. ~ DWF NEWS
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