Obama's rogue state tramples over every law it demands others uphold

[corksean]

George Monbiot in The Guardian

You could almost pity these people. For 67 years successive US governments have resisted calls to reform the UN security council. They've defended a system which grants five nations a veto over world affairs, reducing all others to impotent spectators. They have abused the powers and trust with which they have been vested. They have collaborated with the other four permanent members (the UK, Russia, China and France) in a colonial carve-up, through which these nations can pursue their own corrupt interests at the expense of peace and global justice.

Eighty-three times the US has exercised its veto. On 42 of these occasions it has done so to prevent Israel's treatment of the Palestinians being censured. On the last occasion, 130 nations supported the resolution but Barack Obama spiked it. Though veto powers have been used less often since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the US has exercised them 14 times in the interim (in 13 cases to shield Israel), while Russia has used them nine times. Increasingly the permanent members have used the threat of a veto to prevent a resolution being discussed. They have bullied the rest of the world into silence.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/09/obama-rogue-state-tramples-every-law

[Th1onein]

1. Kick A Powerful indictment of this administration and the ones before it.

The US should be ashamed.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Noted

Thanks for posting.

You should cross post in GD - will get greater exposure.

[blackspade]

3. Informative.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, corksean.