Articles by Democratic World Federalists
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The Earth Constitution Could Transform the UN General Assembly and the UN Itself
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
If both Russia and the US had not wielded Security Council vetoes in the last few years, the ugly atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza might never have happened. The UN Charter’s grant of the veto to the P5 powers is a mockery of the rule of law and democratic ideals.
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What’s So Important about the San Francisco Promise?
Roger Kotila and Suchismita Pattanaik | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The global crisis of climate change must be dealt with effectively, yet the superpowers USA, Russia and China are making it worse with their wars and threats of war. What about the UN? To save our world, a review of the UN Charter is necessary to open doors to the changes urgently needed.
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Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Dec 2021 – The ideal of a one world global family is one of the underlying moral and spiritual foundations for the values which will be needed to save the world. The Earth Constitution expresses this high ideal by providing a new, visionary governing structure designed for the benefit of the whole world, not just the few. The current Session of the Provisional World Parliament serves to provide potential future world legislation which would be extremely useful.
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UN Charter’s “Sovereignty” Gives Brazil the Legal Right to Destroy the Lungs of the Earth
Roger Kotila | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
20 Nov 2020 – A “new UN” is possible, one given the tools it will need to actually save the world from the harm allowed by selfish sovereignty. After all, why should Brazil, or China, or the USA, or any country have the legal sovereign right to endanger humanity? The Charter’s flaws are serious.
→ read full articleWhy the UN Can’t Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Roger Kotila, PhD | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020 – Is the UN’s attempt to eliminate nukes a lesson in futility? It may be, unless we can identify nations that will work with us for the needed Charter Review with the Earth Constitution as a potential guide and model for a “new UN” (this strategy is known as the San Francisco Promise).
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Nuremberg and Media
Fritz Pointer | Democratic World Federalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
14 Mar 2020 – Journalists were among those prosecuted for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity during the Nuremberg Trials post WWII. The Nuremberg prosecution argued: “By virtue of its functions, the German Press Division (think ABC, NBC, FOX, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, CBS, NY Times, Washington Post) became an important and unique instrument of the Nazi (think Project For the New American Century – PNAC) conspirators, not only in dominating the minds and psychology of Germans, but also as an instrument of foreign policy and psychological warfare against other nations.”
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Hollow Promises of a Better Life: Modern-Day Slavery
Kyodo News | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019 – Despite the fact that slavery has long been abolished it continues to blight our world, destroying the lives of tens of millions of people. The Global Slavery Index 2018 estimates there to be 40.3 million slaves in the world. Like many of the issues facing humanity, it demands a coordinated consistent approach, cooperation and commitment, not just among governments, but between nongovernmental organizations and multinational corporations.
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United Nations 75th Anniversary Resolution
Florencia Gor, Jeffery Huffines and Fergus Watt | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
12 Oct 2019 – Draft Resolution – Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations
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Another Climate Woe
Bob Neumann | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 – The climate scientists and climate freaks are finally being heard and many politicians are ready to take action. It has only taken forty or fifty years of talk and pleading by experts. Then I got to thinking, there is no worldwide leadership or enforcement in the UN. Who will lead? Who will coordinate? Sadly the UN failed its main job since 1945 in preventing wars. We’ve only had 348 wars since 1945. The UN must have prevented or stopped a few wars — I just can’t name one.
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US Rage for Endless Wars Threatens World Peace in 2019
Stephen Lendman | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 – Washington’s hegemonic aims, under Republicans and undemocratic Dems represent the greatest threat to world peace and humanity’s survival.
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What the Paris Peace Forum Tells Us about France–And about the World
Célia Belin | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
On Sunday 11 Nov, 60 world leaders joined French President Emmanuel Macron in inaugurating the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, a few hours after commemorating the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I. The American president’s absence at the forum reflects the American unmooring from the world of multilateralism.
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The Pentagon’s Cunning Plot to Militarize the Economy
William D. Hartung | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
8 Nov 2018 – Given his erratic behavior, from daily Twitter eruptions to upping his tally of lies by the hour, it’s hard to think of Donald Trump as a man with a plan. But in at least one area — reshaping the economy to serve the needs of the military-industrial complex — he’s (gasp!) a socialist in the making.
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Turn It around – Not an Impossible Dream
Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
A compelling mixture of stunning video images and music with an inspirational message of concern and hope for the future of our beloved planet Earth. Can we prevail? Watch and see.
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The Best Kept Secret on Saving the World
Bob Hanson | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
I’m betting you have never heard of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, which has been working since 1958 to come up with a better way to run the world… The U.N. has probably prevented many international conflicts and has done yeoman duty in terms of refugees and humanitarian relief. However, it has failed in the task it was created for in 1945….ending war.
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Helen Caldicott on Our Denial of the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon
Mark Karlin interviews Helen Caldicott | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
29 Nov 2017 – Donald Trump’s vow to increase and “upgrade” the United States nuclear arsenal, tensions between the US and North Korea, and the unsecured stockpiles of aging weapons around the globe make it clear we still need to be concerned about this apocalyptic danger. Since the corporate media give short shrift to the peril of nuclear weapons, most world residents are unaware of how close we are to nuclear annihilation.
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