SHUTTING DOWN THE UNITED NATIONS ....

In the last century , and in the wake of two major world wars, a body of almost two hundred member states, was formed to preserve peace throughout , and insure human rights and justice across the glob. At least in theory and principal , as these basic modern requirements were and still are solidly violated periodically by many super powers and lesser powers internationally and regionally .

With at least 16 specialized agencies operating across the world and a substantial peacekeeping force, the U.N. generally was a successful , productive and helpful international agency through most of its operations and endeavors , a good tool to help engaging states in dialogue , and handling refugees from many countries and continents ravaged by conflicts and cruel wars and invasions, by colonialism and apartheid, extermination and blatant theft .

Many of these cruel and unjust acts, whether 70 years old or very recent left millions in camps for years and years most till today. The U.N. agencies somehow managed to help eradicate famine, and deceases from these camps, and play some helpful role in many unfortunate spots of the under developed world .

Ending conflicts and preserving peace in fragile areas of the world, as well as striving to put limits or ends to nuclear proliferation and possible conflicts were fairly successful in most cases, rendering the absolute support of the U.N. both a moral imperative and an international security requirement and necessity .

Except that some powers and I'm mostly concerned  about the U.S. and its close ally Israel, with their periodical reckless rhetoric and threats of  abstinence from paying their financial dues and meeting their share, making it a real alarming situation to say the least. All for political obedience and coercing the world countries to abide by our views and interests, or even worse by Israeli narrow expansionist and illegal agendas.

During her confirmation hearings, ambassador Nikki Haley insisted that theses slashes were important " To build up our military" We are talking here of a 27% cut to the U.S contribution to the U.N. regular budget , a 37% cut to peacekeeping operations, and a proposed zeroing of funds for UNICEF the children's agency, UN DP the women agency, OCHA the humanitarian affairs agency, UNFPA the population fund, the UNHCR the human rights agency, and the U.N agencies working on climate change, Israel's first move in retaliation of naming Hebron a Palestinian national heritage was to cut a million plus dollars from UNESCO's budget, and threatening for more .

All of course to reinforce building their armed forces and militaries, and punishing the world wide agencies. Even programs like children's vaccination around the world have to wait for further building of our militaries.  Our and Israel's ugly adventures in the world cost us many trillions of dollars literally in the past few years, way, way more than the costs of having U.N. peacekeeping forces in all places of conflicts we're trying to solve on our own. Instead of besieging Gaza or fighting in Iraq,and Afghanistan or Yemen for decades, or terrorizing and applying the worse forms of apartheid over the Palestinian population of the West-Bank, stealing their lands, wealth and waters.

A unilateral retreat from our obligations and responsibilities suggested by the administration's budget, would neither improve the U.N. nor make the world including America and Israel or similar aggressors any safer, more secure or better off. Nor send the world a message that the U.S. leadership is firm and essential in the world, as Ambassador Haley vowed to do in her confirmation hearing. It would only remind us and the world of George Orwell's demagoguery and fake utopias .


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SURELY, AN AMERICAN DILEMMA .......

Nobody in his right mind could accuse or state that any past American president up to and  including president Obama, of being anything but full capitalists in all aspects of the word . Except that modern capitalist societies have nowadays accepted and adopted more social steps and programs all over the world. Mostly upholding and maintaining the various practices and institutions needed in every society .

Practices and institutions for almost every normal citizen to enjoy, things like real freedom , real opportunities, and a healthy distribution of wealth and the general prosperity of any nation . Plus of course the basics of modern life in a modern world, like a full right to a universal health care system for all to enjoy, affordable education possibilities and opportunities for all aspiring youths at all levels, and of course the most essential, a decent retirement for all seniors .

These essential needs are and should supersede any militaristic reasoning or wars , whether wars of aggression or what we term as defense, or bureaucratic luxuries and ideological expenses.

Many Americans, possibly half the general population if not more confuse willingly or not the notions of upholding and improving the various practices and institutions needed for almost everyone to enjoy modern decency and civility in a country like America, they confuse by being brain-washed with old adages that were for decades  ushered into the general psych as well as the minds of the most needy and simpler population, that capitalist social promises and programs are equivalent to communism or socialism, in their 20th century applications and models. Well !!  they're not .

American citizenry should be informed and asked to realize that social programs at all levels are not necessarily against family values or religious conservative beliefs . Americans should realize that they are systematically breaking down all these social promises and all previous hard gained meager social start-ups. by increasingly compromising our previous laws, and capturing our political system for the sake of pure demagoguery.

To use Aaron James words ;"We should really worry about whether our societies are already or might soon become asshole capitalist systems, set on a potentially irreversible path of degradation and decline". Many capitalist countries and societies, in Europe and the far east achieved high degrees of social collectivist culture, and a high cooperative social systems, and fairer distribution of their general wealth, and managed simultaneously to be happier and more satisfied conservatives and even religious peoples .

while here in the U.S. we are slowly and surely shifting our tipping point while standing by the  precipice, irreversible decline seems to be our newest accepted motto. Was it Marx who said "Capitalism is generally unstable, but it inevitably gives way to something better", Are we            systematically and deliberately reversing it and turning things to the worst, just for the hate of Marx or is it strictly the love of the filthy rich??

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THE EVOLUTION OF FAITH ....

All religions are based more or less on some degree of faith. The three Abrahamic monotheistic religions ; Judeo-Christian-Islamic, more so than any other, especially the other major ; Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, and of course the more than a billion openly declared or not, non believers, secular or atheist, throughout the world . Faith which is in fact a sort of belief without any supportive evidence or scientific proof, blind and absolute faith that has always been, and lately more than ever foolish, naive and dangerous, and only can lead to many of the evils in any society .

In our modern times, we do not consider or see morality as a god given affair, but rather as a result of humanity's own social development and evolution.

Societies where God plays an active role in their daily universe and in their people's lives, such as the Arab and Iranian and most of the Islamic world, Israel and its increasingly Zionist fervor, especially among the younger generations, and lately a new emerging Christianity in places like Russia, Serbia and of course the Bible belt of Protestant America and its reemerging white/Christian fanaticism , are all but modern examples of a blind and absolute pseudo faith in their gods, prophets and books .

Historically, between 900 and 200 BCE many attempts by many enlightened  individuals, throughout the glob were initiated, all trying to come up with some solutions to old questions of how it all started and where is it all leading us to, and what forces, if any, play any role governing it all. But around the 500 BCE centuries, the greatest and most revolutionary ideas were produced, almost simultaneously in India, China, Japan, Greece, Persia and the Middle-East .

An objective look at these ideas and philosophies show that almost all focused and were dominated by a return to the self, and reaching internal peace and harmony with ourselves and our surroundings, Buddhists, Taoists, Confucians and Greek philosophers were leading in those trends, they largely disregarded any ideas or talk of cosmic powers and external divine handling of human affairs, they all focused on the inner powers of each individual to replace the archaic god centered religions that humanity inherited from its childhood. Pharaonic , Abrahamic and old Hebraic monotheism .

Later came the newer Jewish prophets,after the Babylonian exiles, the Christian creators and later theologians and Islam with its late interpreters to reverse the whole previous inward trend and promise some form of eternal life next to an external God, and of course eternal hell for all others, all three religions came with promises and forceful brutality and cruelty for all non compliant,With imposed codes of how to dress, and what not to eat or drink, and classified and assigned genders and casts. All modern religions with no exception categorized gender so as to enforce patriarchy . And they all had to follow the adage of ; "God told us to do so."

 The Bible proposes that suffering and death will only end when Jesus returns for the last judgment . Jesus promised it would take place within a generation, and all his disciples believed they would live to see it, it didn't happen yet, but this logic states and proves by itself that Divine powers have the power and will to stop suffering on earth, but refuses to do so until certain more convenient dates .

After many centuries of theological imperialism , we find ourselves back into a world where there are too many gods, and when typical gods fight among themselves, men have to die . Gods have to compete with each other and invariably claim first place, thus societies pay the price and slowly drift into chaos . We have reached a point in time where pure intellect and rational thinking is not enough to govern and decide our worldly moral realities .

Any group in this world of ours, be it a rich oligarchy as we have achieved lately in the United States or in Russia, or the Israeli Zionism in its almost majority, or the Islamic world , these are assuredly not going to make our heads and minds believe in the betterness of the human kind .

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