It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
Sarah DessenTags: un unthinkable unthought
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
George ClooneyTags: politics war death 9-11 iraq israel un darfur afghanistan global palestine united-nations
If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.
Andrew ThomsonTags: international-relations thought-provoking un peacekeeping
Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?
Jean SassonTags: world un peacekeepers disposable kurds
If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: insanity religion atheism un forever the-united-nations
Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this reason that Marx registers...a vigorous indictment of the anarchist Proudhon... Proudhon in effect took the specifics of bourgeois legal and economic relations and treated them as universal and foundational for the development of an alternative, socially just economic system. From Marx's standpoint, this is no alternative at all since it merely re-inscribes bourgeois conceptions of value in a supposedly new form of society. This problem is still with us, not only because of the contemporary anarchist revival of interest in Proudhon's ideas but also because of the rise of a more broad-based liberal human rights politics as a supposed antidote to the social and political ills of contemporary capitalism. Marx's critique of Proudhon is directly applicable to this contemporary politics. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is a foundational document for a bourgeois, market-based individualism and as such cannot provide a basis for a thoroughgoing critique of liberal or neoliberal capitalism. Whether it is politically useful to insist that the capitalist political order live up to its own foundational principles is one thing, but to imagine that this politics can lead to a radical displacement of a capitalist mode of production is, in Marx's view, a serious error.
David HarveyTags: liberalism capitalism economics individualism revolution marx value human-rights anarchism rights un harvey neoliberalism proudhon
After the second world war
in 1948
they founded the UN,
the United Nations
so that a crime like the mass-murder of
the Jews
could never happen again.
Now the UN is a flourishing organization
a honourable institution,
the only thing is that it doesn't do the thing they founded it for:
prevention of mass-murder.
Tags: murder un united-nations mass-murder bosnia
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