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Time for a new world order
03 Sep 2012 at 21:46hrs | Views
LAST week's gathering of the Non-Aligned Movement in Iran demonstrated the urgent need for a new world order in which the United Nations has a strong voice and is shielded from abuse and domination by powerful Western nations led by the United States. The 16th Nam summit also brought to the fore the need for the organisation to draw from its sheer strength of numbers to create a new world order.
While Nam members might not be as rich as the G8 for instance, they have the advantage of numbers and they can use this to push their agenda at the UN and other fora. The end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union gave birth to a unipolar world dominated by the US and Washington has often abused this seeming invincibility to ride roughshod over smaller weaker states. The UN has been powerless to stop Uncle Tom's excesses and the world has been left at the mercy of the war-mongering US military machine.
When its quest to sanitise its military adventures through a vote at the UN Security Council fails via the vetos of China and Russia â€" the US has literally torn the UN Charter to shreds by embarking on wars around the world regardless. History is replete with examples where the US and its allies have made nonsense of the UN Charter, violating it with impunity in their quest to protect their interests. Iraq was invaded and Saddam Hussein disposed and gruesomely executed under a false claim that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The so-called "War on terror" has been a smokescreen for the plunder of oil resources in the Middle East and the Arab Springs uprisings were sponsored and fuelled from the capitals of Europe and America. Governments and leaders who do not kowtow to the whims and caprices of white capital have often found themselves targets of regime change machinations and thus we have such phrases as "axis of evil" and "outposts of tyranny".
Countries such as Iran, North Korea and Zimbabwe have been branded dictatorships just because they have strong leaders who refuse to bow to the dictates of the US, Britain and their allies. Powerful and rich nations favour pliant leaders who bend to their every whim. Zimbabwe has been targeted for regime change since it embarked on the land reform programme which threatened white capital.
We agree with President Mugabe that the US and its allies should be blocked from imposing their alien values on smaller nations in the name of democracy. Addressing the Nam summit on Friday, Cde Mugabe said Nam was supposed to stop the West from abusing the Un Security Council. Speaking ahead of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly next month, the President said the meeting must condemn extra application of domestic laws. "We also must fight attempts to abuse the general assembly's high moral standing as an opportunity to prescribe domestic laws on member states. We totally reject the imposition of alien values on which there is no global consensus. For us the issue is crystal clear. The discussion should focus on the non-compliance with, and contemptuous disregard of the principles and purposes enshrined in the United Nations Charter and international law by powerful members of the Security Council," he said.
We concur and urge Nam to use its strength to guide global affairs towards a new world order that is founded on principles of justice, equity, sovereignty, equality of states, self-determination, mutual respect, peaceful co-existence, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, non-aggression and non-interference in the affairs of other states. The imposition of debilitating and ruinous sanctions on Zimbabwe by the EU, the US and their allies was a form of aggressive interference meant to incite a revolt.
The abuse of UN systems to advance Western interests should be checked forthwith and we regret that the world has stood and watched as the US and their allies vilified Iran and spawned uprisings in the Middle East. We call on the developing world to heed President Mugabe's call to resist Western machinations and stand united in the fight against the US and their allies' global domination of affairs.
While Nam members might not be as rich as the G8 for instance, they have the advantage of numbers and they can use this to push their agenda at the UN and other fora. The end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union gave birth to a unipolar world dominated by the US and Washington has often abused this seeming invincibility to ride roughshod over smaller weaker states. The UN has been powerless to stop Uncle Tom's excesses and the world has been left at the mercy of the war-mongering US military machine.
When its quest to sanitise its military adventures through a vote at the UN Security Council fails via the vetos of China and Russia â€" the US has literally torn the UN Charter to shreds by embarking on wars around the world regardless. History is replete with examples where the US and its allies have made nonsense of the UN Charter, violating it with impunity in their quest to protect their interests. Iraq was invaded and Saddam Hussein disposed and gruesomely executed under a false claim that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The so-called "War on terror" has been a smokescreen for the plunder of oil resources in the Middle East and the Arab Springs uprisings were sponsored and fuelled from the capitals of Europe and America. Governments and leaders who do not kowtow to the whims and caprices of white capital have often found themselves targets of regime change machinations and thus we have such phrases as "axis of evil" and "outposts of tyranny".
We agree with President Mugabe that the US and its allies should be blocked from imposing their alien values on smaller nations in the name of democracy. Addressing the Nam summit on Friday, Cde Mugabe said Nam was supposed to stop the West from abusing the Un Security Council. Speaking ahead of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly next month, the President said the meeting must condemn extra application of domestic laws. "We also must fight attempts to abuse the general assembly's high moral standing as an opportunity to prescribe domestic laws on member states. We totally reject the imposition of alien values on which there is no global consensus. For us the issue is crystal clear. The discussion should focus on the non-compliance with, and contemptuous disregard of the principles and purposes enshrined in the United Nations Charter and international law by powerful members of the Security Council," he said.
We concur and urge Nam to use its strength to guide global affairs towards a new world order that is founded on principles of justice, equity, sovereignty, equality of states, self-determination, mutual respect, peaceful co-existence, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, non-aggression and non-interference in the affairs of other states. The imposition of debilitating and ruinous sanctions on Zimbabwe by the EU, the US and their allies was a form of aggressive interference meant to incite a revolt.
The abuse of UN systems to advance Western interests should be checked forthwith and we regret that the world has stood and watched as the US and their allies vilified Iran and spawned uprisings in the Middle East. We call on the developing world to heed President Mugabe's call to resist Western machinations and stand united in the fight against the US and their allies' global domination of affairs.
Source - The Chronicle
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