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October 27, 2022

Articles in this Issue: Pretending To Seek Peace In An Unwinnable Proxy War Caitlin Johnstone   Why the U.S. War Regime Isn't Trustworthy Chris Hedges   US Economic Blockade Against Cuba Is An International Crime Alejandra Garcia   How Corporations 'Get Away With Murder' to Inflate Prices Lynn Parramore and Hal Singer   Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and the Earth Constitution Roger Kotila 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."

Pretending To Seek Peace In An Unwinnable Proxy War Caitlin Johnstone

EXCERPT We should probably talk more about the fact that the US empire is loudly promoting the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine by defeating Russia while quietly acknowledging that this goal is impossible. This is like accelerating toward a brick wall and pretending it's an open road.   Wanting to weaken Russia and wanting to save lives and establish peace in Ukraine are two completely different goals, so different that in practice they wind up being largely contradictory. Drawing Moscow into a bloody quagmire means many more people dying in a war that lasts years.   The US does not want peace in Ukraine, it wants to overextend Russia, shore up military and energy dominance over Europe, expand its war machine and enrich the military-industrial complex. It's posing as Ukraine's savior while being clearly invested in Ukraine's destruction.   READ MORE

Editor's note: Chris Hedges bluntly summarizes why the U.S. ruling regime can't be trusted, over Ukraine or nuclear war. American politicians and the military are blinded by "hubris." Hubris describes overbearing pride and arrogance. U.S. war planners appear to suffer from a severe psychiatric disorder -- megalomania. Symptoms include delusions of grandeur and greatness ("exceptionalism"), feelings of omnipotence, and craving for power ("full spectrum military dominance"). -- R. Kotila, Ph.D.

Why the U.S. War Regime Isn't Trustworthy [Original title: Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Bomb] Chris Hedges

EXCERPT The West has been baiting Moscow for decades. I reported from Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. I watched these militarists set out to build what they called a unipolar world — a world where they alone ruled. First, they broke promises not to expand NATO beyond the borders of a unified Germany. Then they broke promises not to “permanently station substantial combat forces” in the new NATO member countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Then they broke promises not to station missile systems along Russia’s border. Then they broke promises not to interfere in the internal affairs of border states such as Ukraine, orchestrating the 2014 coup that ousted the elected government of Victor Yanukovich, replacing it with an anti-Russian — fascist aligned — government, which, in turn, led to an 8-year-long civil war, as the Russian populated regions in the east sought independence from Kiev. They armed Ukraine with NATO weapons and trained 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers after the coup. Then they recruited neutral Finland and Sweden into NATO. Now the U.S. is being asked to send advanced long-range missile systems to Ukraine, which Russia says would make the U.S. “a direct party to the conflict.” But blinded by hubris and lacking any understanding of geopolitics, they push us, like the hapless generals in the Austro-Hungarian empire, towards catastrophe.  READ MORE

US Economic Blockade Against Cuba Is An International Crime Alejandra Garcia

Editor's note: Notice that the UN has voted time and time again rejecting the legitimacy of the economic blockade against Cuba. There is a long list of nations that prefer a socialist economic model but who have been targeted to be overthrown by the U.S., a violation of the UN Charter. Why can't the UN stop these international crimes? R. Kotila, PhD

EXCERPTS On November 2 and 3, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), will consider for the 30th time in a row, the need to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba more than 60 years ago. This will take place in a special context, marked by the devastating effects left by Hurricane Ian on the Caribbean island, and a global multidisciplinary crisis, which includes food and energy scourges. The vote on the draft resolution that Cuba submits every year to the UN calling for an end to the blockade, will also take place amid an unprecedented scenario, marked by the tightening of that policy and unconventional warfare that seeks to provoke the collapse of the Cuban economy. Despite the claims of Cuba, the Americans, and the world, everything remains the same. Nothing has changed even though the UN General Assembly has voted in favor of the resolution urging the US to end its blockade against Cuba 29 times in a row. The damages are incalculable and irreparable, according to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, who presented on Wednesday the most recent report of the island on the damages caused by the blockade in the last year.  READ MORE

Editor's note: Multinational corporations are difficult to control and regulate as the United Nations lacks authority because of its outdated Charter. Not only can't the UN prevent war, it can't control the fact that large corporations take advantage of their economic power for excess profits in nations both large and small. The solution? We need a "new UN" with a constitution such as seen with the Earth Constitution which gives authority back to "we, the people" with a World Parliament that can regulate Big Money. -- R. Kotila, PhD

How Corporations 'Get Away With Murder' to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food and Electricity Lynn Parramore and Hal Singer

Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits. Microeconomist Hal Singer studies the topic on everyone’s mind: prices. Singer, who teaches advanced pricing at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and frequently serves as an economic expert in antitrust litigation (often concerning how firms set prices), says that those who hold workers’ wages responsible for inflation are not only wrong but making the problem worse with policies that fail to hit the real mark.  READ MORE

Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and the Earth Constitution Roger Kotila

The United Nation's primary job is to end war. It hasn't worked. It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it's Russia against US/Ukraine. To add to the frustrating madness, US/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. And despite the new international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, nuclear war is feared over the Ukraine crisis.    The articles selected for DWF NEWS in this edition illustrate serious problems that the UN cannot fix. Take the Cuba story. Despite years and years of the UN majority declaring that the US economic blockade is illegal and wrong, nothing has changed and the people of Cuba continue to suffer. The same situation with Israel's oppression of the Palestinians.    Despite a new international agreement to prohibit nuclear weapons, a number of nations refuse to comply. And multinational corporations/Big Money greed appears to be one of the causes of inflation hurting people around the world. Shutting off Russian gas and oil to Europe is another factor. The UN lacks the authority to supervise and regulate opportunistic private capitalism taking advantage of the Ukraine situation.     The current UN geopolitical system has reached crisis levels   What is the solution to these dilemmas? A small core of world federalist think tanks has developed a strategy which evaluates the flawed UN Charter and compares it to the Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution).     THE SAN FRANCISCO PROMISE is the strategy now underway which draws upon the fact that the UN has yet to fulfill the legal requirement of Article 109-3 which requires a review of the UN Charter (see the Center for UN Constitutional Research).    The launching of a General Review Conference can occur in two different ways:  (1) A handful of nations informally begin evaluating the Charter by comparing it to the Earth Constitution; or (2) postponing a Review until a 2/3s majority is reached in both the General Assembly (128 needed out of 193 nations) and also the Security Council (9 out of 15).     A serious flaw in the Charter includes the fact that there is no enforceable world law. When nations are in conflict the final arbiter is war, not the UN. In a world federal union, nations in conflict resolve the problem nonviolently by going either to a World Court or to an elected UN World Parliament. For countries plagued by criminal leaders, under the Earth Constitution they can be held accountable as individuals. No longer will the leaders of Bully nations remain free to plunder, kill and overthrow other governments.    The chaos and paranoia caused by covert agencies such as the CIA, Mossad, MI6, FSB and the ilk should become illegal. These secret agencies should no longer be allowed to function above international law. In a UN world federal union, these intelligence agencies can be utilized for universal inspections to ensure disarmament.   The World Constitution & Parliament Association, working with Democratic World Federalists, are educating government officials and politicians on the need for a review of the Charter. WCPA's brilliant Constitution for the Federation of Earth is being proposed as a guide and model for a "new UN" once the Charter review is launched.   The Ukraine crisis would have never happened if we had a different United Nations Charter. The UN needs a world federal constitution.    -- Roger Kotila, PhD -- DWF NEWS

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