2022ko usazkenean
The terrorist attack on a civilian infrastructure necessary for the population living in Crimea constitutes a war crime and the ICC should start an investigation with a view to indict the culprits under articles 7 and 8 of the Statute or Rome.
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The gleeful reaction to the terrorist act against the Crimean bridge in some Western countries demonstrates once again how little we care for the welfare of women, children and men in Crimea who, whether we like it or not, possess the right to self-determination.
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The hypocrisy of politicians and media in many Western countries is “over the top” and displays our lack of morals and our profound disregard for human dignity.
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Refusing to hold a referendum because it may conflict with the principle of territorial integrity ignores the fact that since the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right of self-determination of peoples takes precedence.
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It is absolutely illegal and illegitimate to wage a war AGAINST the exercise of self-determination, which is anchored in the UN Charter and articles 1 of ICCPR and ICESCR, as erga omnes and jus cogens rights.
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Lasting peace does not depend on territorial integrity — it depends on mutual respect among sovereign nations and implementation of the right of self-determination, which is another word for democracy, rule of the people.
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Waging a war against the people of Donbas and Crimea constitutes a frontal attack on one of the main pillars of the United Nations — self-determination.
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The terrorist attack on the #CrimeanBridge is yet another crime of #Western intelligence services. They too were behind the car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander #Dugin, on 20 August 2022. No one remembers #Darya #CrimeaBridge #Crimea
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Next steps to decolonization – What the UN should do to help oppressed peoples: Hawaii & Okinawa http://youtube.com/watch?v=pRSkFwtAEkA
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International Monetary Fund President Kristalina Georgieva confirmed that the world economy had undergone a fundamental change from relatively predictable to more vulnerable, more unpredictable, due to the multiple shocks.
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What Georgieva could and should have proposed is 1) a lifting of sanctions that sabotage the world economy, 2) an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, 3) a negotiated end to the war. This, however, would have been politically incorrect.
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The terrorist attack on the #CrimeanBridge is yet another crime of #Western intelligence services. They too were behind the car bombing that killed Darya Dugina, daughter of Russian philosopher Alexander #Dugin, on 20 August 2022. No one remembers #Darya
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It is absolutely illegal and illegitimate to wage a war AGAINST the exercise of self-determination, which is anchored in the UN Charter and articles 1 of ICCPR and ICESCR, as erga omnes and jus cogens rights.
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Refusing to hold a referendum because it may conflict with the principle of territorial integrity ignores the fact that since the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right of self-determination of peoples takes precedence.
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The gleeful reaction to the terrorist act against the Crimean bridge in some Western countries demonstrates once again how little we care for the welfare of women, children and men in Crimea who, whether we like it or not, possess the right to self-determination.
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The terrorist attack on a civilian infrastructure necessary for the population living in Crimea constitutes a war crime and the ICC should start an investigation with a view to indict the culprits under articles 7 and 8 of the Statute or Rome.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is burning bridges for himself and the Western coalition. Why limit the options to military victory by Russia or NATO? How about a negotiated end of the war as required by the UN Charter?
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Stolterberg says that a military victory for Russia in Ukraine would spell defeat for the entire Western alliance. No, not at all. But it would be a more humane and rational option than World War III and mutual nuclear annihilation.
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Stoltenberg should accept that NATO made a mistake by expanding to the very frontiers of Russia, and that such expansion constituted a threat to international peace and security within the meaning of article 39 of the UN Charter.
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NATO was never “Mr. nice guy” and since the dismantlement of the Warsaw Pact has NEVER acted as a “defensive” alliance. It is an expansive power that wants to deploy its neo-colonial influence and bully others in the region.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is burning bridges for himself and the Western coalition. Why limit the options to military victory by Russia or NATO? How about a negotiated end of the war as required by the UN Charter?
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Stolterberg says that a military victory for Russia in Ukraine would spell defeat for the entire Western alliance. No, not at all. But it would be a more humane and rational option than World War III and mutual nuclear annihilation.
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Stoltenberg should accept that NATO made a mistake by expanding to the very frontiers of Russia, and that such expansion constituted a threat to international peace and security within the meaning of article 39 of the UN Charter.
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It was a deplorable failure on the part of the UN that it did not organize referendums in Crimea and Donbass in 1991 when Ukraine split from the USSR or in 2014 after the Maidan coup d’état.
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It is unbearable to see how the US persecutes anyone who does not accept US imperialism, e.g. Julian Assange, who has been exposed to lawfare, deprivation of liberty, extreme punishment without judgment by a competent court.
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Assange has been the victim of a reversal of justice, whereby a journalist who exposes the crimes of the US is persecuted while the perpetrators or the exposed war crimes and crimes against humanity are not.
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It constitutes cognitive dissonance when the country that has committed gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law demands the extradition of the journalist who informed the public about the crimes committed in their name.
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Geopolitical persecution should be condemned by the lawyers’ associations in the US, Canada, UK, Sweden, etc. but lawyers are all too often opportunists and become complicit in the persecution. No one wants to touch the issue.
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Assange has been the victim of a reversal of justice, whereby a journalist who exposes the crimes of the US is persecuted while the perpetrators or the exposed war crimes and crimes against humanity are not.
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A General Assembly resolution refusing to recognize the desire of a people to be incorporated into another State cannot abrogate the clear language of article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right of self-determination.
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Article 1 ICCPR/ICESCR stipulates that ALL peoples have the right of self-determination. This right includes the right to secede and the right to seek incorporation into another State, if that is what the people want. Of course, the will of the people must be clearly established
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Side Event of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations on the sidelines of the Third Committee of the General Assembly
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Tulsi Gabbard did well to leave the Democratic party, because this party that once had had some pacifist inclinations is today even more hawkish than the Republicans, even more hypocritical.
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There is no democratic choice in the US. Whether you vote Democrat or Republican, you get an interventionist, a war-monger bent on giving the military-industrial complex big profits and denying average Americans health care, education, shelter for the homeless, sanitation.
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Bizarre that the Council of Europe Assembly would brand Russia a “terrorist regime”. How about Ukraine that has shelled civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk since 2014 and killed 14,000? How about those behind the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines? Of the Crimean bridge?
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I can think of many countries that deserve the label “terrorist”, e.g. Saudi Arabia in Yemen, whose illegal bombardment has killed thousands of children and adults, mostly civilians, causing the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis. How about Israel in Gaza?
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When it comes to “terrorist regimes”, my country the USA probably leads the list with its indiscriminate bombardments in Afghanistan, Irak and Syria, with its “extraordinary rendition” program, with Guantanamo.
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Probably the worst kind of “terrorism” are economic sanctions imposed by the US on 40 countries — unilateral coercive measures aimed at regime change, killing thousands in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Syria — through enforced famine and scarcity of medicines.
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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to phase out nuclear energy was correct and remains the right decision. It is not Putin that is denying Germany natural gas, it is Germany itself that has shot itself in the foot.
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The self-mutilation of the Europeans and the their toleration of a US terror attack on Nordstream demonstrates how much the Europeans have lost sovereignty and abandoned democracy for their citizens.
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Merkel’s decisions to buy large quantities of natural gas from Russia, Germany’s primary gas supplier when she left office, was absolutely rational and conducive to coexistence through trade.
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There is no advantage for Germany or for Europe to become dependent on the US for its energy. Whereas Putin did NOT use his leverage and did NOT blackmail the Europeans, the US has done it for decades.
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Speaking in Lisbon, Merkel said that she doesn’t regret her decisions, because it was clear that Germany needed to diversify its energy supplies as it moved away from nuclear and coal-fueled power generation.
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About Nordstream2 Merkel said that “ it was very rational and understandable to get pipeline gas, including from Russia, that was cheaper than LNG from other parts of the world.”
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Merkel emphasized that “even in the Cold War, Russia was a reliable energy supplier.” True enough, Putin did NOT close the flow on the Europeans, in spite of the vulgar incitement to hatred that the US and EU have been practicing.
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There is no advantage for Germany or for Europe to become dependent on the US for its energy. Whereas Putin did NOT use his leverage and did NOT blackmail the Europeans, the US has done it for decades.
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The self-mutilation of the Europeans and the their toleration of a US terror attack on Nordstream demonstrates how much the Europeans have lost sovereignty and abandoned democracy for their citizens.
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Coexistence, compromise, de-escalation, detente, dialogue, modus vivendi, peace — ideas and concepts that have been removed from the NATO lexicon.
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Why do people put up with the ludicrous and ritual invocation of a so-called “rules-based international order” by Biden/Blinken, which the US itself violates on a daily basis? The UN Charter remains the best “rules-based international order”.
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The UN Charter Art. 2(3) requires peaceful negotiation. Art. 2(4) prohibits not only the use of force, but also the threat of the use of force. NATO’s eastern expansion and the coup d’état in Kiev 2014 constituted egregious violations of Art. 2(4).
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It is dismaying how the mainstream media continues to mislead Americans and the world. Back in 2003 the mainstream media tried to convince us that Saddam Hussein had his WMD and could strike London in 45 minutes.
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The German left-wing politician Sarah Wagenknecht has been saying what Olaf Scholz does not dare say, that the Ukraine war was preventable and that NATO was the agent provocateur.
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The African Union has called on those involved in the two-year war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region to implement an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and agree to direct peace talks. The European Union should do the same for Ukraine.
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UN Human Rights Council resolution 48/7 on the sequels of colonialism has application to today’s
neo-colonial policies of the US and EU.
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Unlike the African and Asian peoples, the First Nations of the Americans — the Algonquins, Cherokees, Crees, Dakotas, Iroquois, Lakotas, Mohawks, Navajo, Sioux, Squamish — were never decolonized.
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One of the many anomalies of Western historical conduct is that although we insist on the right to property for ourselves, we deny it to indigenous peoples, on whose lands we live and whose natural resources we have looted.
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The energy crisis is artificial and can be ended tomorrow if the criminal sanctions against Russia are lifted. The most vulnerable in Russia, Ukraine and Europe suffer first, then the rest of the world, including in Asia and Africa.
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Tulsi Gabbard is right to call on other Democrats to leave the party, which is controlled by “woke, fanatical ideologues”, “an elitist cabal of warmongers.” The Republicans, however, are no better. The US has ceased to be a democracy.
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If the US were a functioning democracy, US citizens would be asked whether they want billions of dollars to be given to Ukraine for war, or whether they would prefer promoting mediation with a view to a cease fire and sustainable peace.
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While Europe is ruining itself, the US military-industrial-digital-financial complex is rejoicing, and China continues its economic, industrial and geopolitical rise.
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The refusal of Sweden to involve Germany and Russia in the investigations into the terrorist attack on the Nordstream pipelines augurs badly for Europe and for the credibility of the investigation. Will there be yet another cover-up?
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Back 2000 years ago Cicero already posed the key question “cui bono?” — who benefits? It is clear that only the US benefits, which can now sell its over-priced and ecologically unsound LNG to Europe.
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Everybody knows that Nord Stream represented a vital revenue source for Russia and a bargaining chip with Europe. The “conspiracy theory” that it was Putin who blew it up (!!) is really too much to swallow.
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While Europe is ruining itself, the US military-industrial-digital-financial complex is rejoicing, and China continues its economic, industrial and geopolitical rise.
