Articles by Alfred de Zayas
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…
→ read full articleThe US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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US Airman Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The live-streaming of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on 25 Feb 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the genocide by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people. 30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children.
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A Roadmap for Peace in Ukraine
Alfred de Zayas | TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – As more and more politicians and scholars recognize that the Ukraine conflict cannot be solved militarily, that there will be no winners but only losers, we should concentrate on stopping the slaughter. This is the only rational policy we can follow. My roadmap for peace is simple.
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Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s for Once Try Talking to Each Other
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
25 Jul 2023 – In the UN Human Rights Council, the blaming game is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States “naming” possessed a higher moral authority over the “named;” as if blaming could contribute to dialogue and compromise.
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The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – Ultimately, NATO must be recognized not only as a criminal organization, a blustering vestige of a moribund Western imperialism, but as a mortal danger to the survival of civilization on Earth. NATO is on the wrong side of history.
→ read full articleThe Weaponization of Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Alas, the Human Rights Council has become predominantly a platform for those who engage in war-mongering and incitement to hatred. Notwithstanding the clear language of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, many states practice flagrant Russophobia, Sinophobia and other phobias. Article 20 stipulates:
→ read full articleThe Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Whether or not the West considers NATO’s expansion a provocation, what is crucial is how NATO expansion is perceived by those who feel threatened by it. In this context we must remember that article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits not only the use of force but also the threat of the use of force.
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Human Rights and Confronting China Geopolitically
Richard Falk and Alfred de Zayas | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – Breakthrough success of Bachelet’s HRC mission to China. We decry those who distort such an achievement to continue to rationalize confronting China coercively. Opportunism in relation to human rights is not a path to peace and justice. Rather than provoking a critical storm the mission, in our judgment, should have been applauded with a sustained shout of BRAVO!
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The Rule of Law Must Finally Evolve into the Rule of Justice
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – Many politicians, academics, media pundits are wont of invoking the “rule of law”, a “rules-based international order”, “values diplomacy,” etc. But what do all these benevolent-sounding slogans actually mean in practice? Who makes the rules, who interprets them, who enforces them? What transparency and accountability accompany these noble pledges?
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(Français) Réflexions sur le génocide comme crime ultime
Alfred de Zayas et Richard Falk | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
10 Juin 2021 – L’utilisation abusive du mot «génocide» est un manque de respect envers les proches des victimes des massacres arméniens, de l’holocauste et du génocide rwandais. Il est bien plus dangereux de découvrir que nous risquons également d’être immergés dans les eaux troubles du «faux droit» (fake law). Il est urgent de réagir. Une telle évolution n’est pas tolérable.
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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding the UNGA Resolution of 1959 That Recognized Attainment of Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
April 2020 – In 1959, the territory and the people of the formerly independent nation/state of Hawaii was declared a State of the U.S. union and Hawaii was removed by the UN General Assembly as one of those places subject to further reporting by the United States in the progress toward Hawaii’s self-governance under Article 73 of the U.N. Charter. This document calls upon the UN General Assembly to review its actions taken in 1959.
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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding UNGA Resolution That Recognized Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
A careful review of the case will reveal that the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469 under false premises, on the basis of false and incomplete information provided by the United States of America, relying on representations that were tainted by grave material and procedural irregularities surrounding the fraudulent referendum on Hawaii’s entry into the United States as a State, which amounted to an act of annexation. Because the referendum was fundamentally flawed, the resolution based thereon must be deemed null and void.
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