DEMOCRATIC WORLD FEDERALISTS
PEACEFUL | JUST | SUSTAINABLE | WORLD
March 16, 2023
Articles for This Issue:

Brett Wilkins

Ukraine War Exposes U.S. Imperialism as Foremost Global Threat
Editorial, Strategic-Culture Foundation

WATCH: the CIA and Julian Assange
Julian Robinson

Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Six War Mongering Think Tanks and the Military Contractors that Fund Them
Amanda Yee

WCPA's Two-Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a "New UN"
Roger Kotila
UN Disarmament Official Lays Out Path to Reverse 'Dangerous' Nuclear Trends
EXCERPTS

The head of the United Nations disarmament division warned Thursday of the need for urgent global action to eliminate atomic weapons, especially during the current heightened tensions between the United States and Russia—the world's leading nuclear powers—over the latter's thermonuclear threats during its invasion of Ukraine.
 
Addressing attendees of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons' "ICAN Act On It" Forum in Oslo, Norway via a pre-recorded video message, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu linked the concept of "humanitarian disarmament" with international agreements including the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Anti-Personnel Landmine Ban Convention, and the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
 
To date, 92 nations have signed the TPNW, while 68 countries are state parties to the agreement, according to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. None of the world's nine nuclear powers has signed the treaty.

Ukraine War Exposes U.S. Imperialism as Foremost Global Threat
Editorial, Strategic-Culture Foundation
EXCERPTS
Strictly speaking, the war in Ukraine is entering its tenth year because the origins of the conflict are traced to the coup d’état in Kyiv in February 2014 sponsored by the American CIA and other NATO agents. The NeoNazi regime that was installed then and which continues in power (headed up by a Jewish president nonetheless) was weaponized and covertly supported by the United States and its NATO partners to aggress the Russian-speaking people of formerly southeastern Ukraine. The bigger objective for the regime was to draw the Russian Federation into an existential confrontation that is now underway.
 
Russia’s envoy to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, in an address to the Security Council this week cited figures that showed that the U.S. engaged in illegal foreign military interventions on over 250 occasions since the ostensible end of the Cold War some three decades ago.

For its part, China this week denounced the United States as the major instigator of world conflicts, claiming that 80 percent of foreign wars and hostilities were attributable to covert and overt American actions.

No nation has overseen the number of coups, regime-change operations, mass killings, and assassinations compared with the United States. Its ruling regime even assassinated one of its own presidents – John F Kennedy in 1963 – because he stood in the way of imperialist objectives.
WATCH: The CIA and Julian Assange
Julian Robinson  ConsortiumNews
Assange lawyer Jennifer Robinson told the Belmarsh Tribunal in Sydney the very C.I.A. that plotted to kill the WikiLeaks publisher also would have a major say in the conditions of his imprisonment if he is convicted in the U.S.
 
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Julian faces 175 years in prison for committing acts of journalism and for the very same publications for which he has won awards the world over – including the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Sydney Peace Prize Medal.
 
As The New York Times and Washington Post have made clear, the indictment criminalizes public interest journalism. The Freedom of the Press Foundation has called it the most terrifying threat to free speech in the 21st century.
Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Six War Mongering Think Tanks and the Military Contractors that Fund Them
Amanda Yee

From producing reports and analysis for U.S. policy-makers, to enlisting representatives to write op-eds in corporate media, to providing talking heads for corporate media to interview and give quotes, think tanks play a fundamental role in shaping both U.S. foreign policy and public perception around that foreign policy. Leaders at top think tanks like the Atlantic Council and Hudson Institute have even been called upon to set focus priorities for the House Intelligence Committee.

However, one look at the funding sources of the most influential think tanks reveals whose interests they really serve: that of the U.S. military and its defense contractors.
March 16, 2023
WCPA's Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a "New UN"
Roger Kotila   DWF NEWS
The World Constitution & Parliament Association has adopted a plan for a global citizenship movement which they believe can "change the world." The goal is the establishment of a new geopolitical peace system to replace the failing United Nations global (war) system.
 
Since the signing of the UN Charter in 1945 world federalists have warned that the Charter's design was wrong, and that the UN would be unable to end war. So what is the solution? Only world government could do the job explains Albert Einstein in "Einstein on Peace."
 
Einstein and other world federalists noted, among other defects, the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations routinely violate international law with impunity. Leaders of countries who are responsible for world crimes, especially those among the UN Security Council P-5 veto powers (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France), are never held accountable for what they've done. They are untouchable, even by the International Criminal Court or the World Court.  
 
WCPA activists worldwide (India, Europe, US, South America, etc.) have adopted a Two Track Strategy to establish a democratic world federation with a charter/constitution (the Earth Constitution) which corrects the fatal defects in the present UN Charter:  
 
Track A: Fulfillment of THE SAN FRANCISCO PROMISE. Under Article 109-3 the UN General Assembly is legally required to review the obsolete Charter. Such a review by the UNGA could open the door for introduction of the Earth Constitution as a model, guide and authority in actually forming a "new UN," one with the tools needed to end "the scourge of war."    
 
Track B: If the UN is unable, or unwilling, to fix itself, then the building blocks for Earth Federation government are already being put in place. Adopting the Earth Constitution, activists are building an alternative world organization which is parallel to, but independent of, the UN.
 
Already Earth Federation activists have hosted Sessions of a Provisional World Parliament, and are developing a House of Peoples with 1000 electoral districts. At long last the world's 8 billion people would get democratic representation in a World Parliament. 
 
WCPA's Two Track Strategy insures that if the UN fails to reform itself, then peace and human rights activists will already have in place an alternative, independent world organization with growing popular support for a global system change with the potential to end war.   
 
Roger Kotila, PhD
Psychologist (ret.)
US Vice President, WCPA
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