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US to UN: Butt out

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Last hope for the UN

The leaders of the most powerful nations on Earth have failed us. The Security Council has failed us. War has begun. The UN should not allow itself to be relegated to a strictly humanitarian role: it is their moment to stand up and give voice to the global demand to stop the fighting.

Greenpeace activists stage action in front of Hong Kong Legislative Council, calling on the government not to be complicit in the illegal war on Iraq Enlarge Image

US unilateralism no laughing matter

"Frustrated with the United Nations' consistent, blatant regard for the will of its 188 member nations, the US announced Monday the formation of its own international governing body, the USUN." Some would merely laugh off this satirical story in America's Finest News Source, The Onion. But as the Arab League calls for an emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly to halt the illegal, unilateral war on Iraq we must ask, is it really just a laugh?

A satircal take on the North Korea situation by Mark Fiore. Watch the full animation at http://www.markfiore.com/animation/dictator.html Enlarge Image

Make law not war

North Korea prepares to ditch a treaty controlling the spread of nuclear weapons. The Bush administration starts to make noises about where to take the pre-emptive war bandwagon next. India announces that it reserves the "sovereign right" to attack any country that represents a potential threat. The US Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security claims "there's no such thing as international law."

George Bush leads the US toward a policy of unilateral, pre-emptive counterproliferation warfighting strategy. Enlarge Image

Bunker busters and the future of war

As if George Bush's monumental miscalculation in Iraq wasn't bad enough for the people of Iraq and global security, the Bush regime has now moved one big step closer toward use of nuclear weapons in similar US misadventures.

Looters in abandoned hangar at Tuwaitha nuclear centre, Iraq Enlarge Image

Vanishing nukes in Iraq

Mohamed ElBaradei warned the world today that nuclear assets in Iraq have been looted and nuclear materials have disappeared. Greenpeace made that warning more than a year ago when we located radioactive materials and returned them to the nuclear facility at Tuwaitha. Due to US resistance to the UN nuclear watchdog's return to Iraq, it has to rely on satellite images. We saw evidence of the UN concerns on the ground.

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Latest Updates On Tuesday the 8th of April, the Arab League formally requested a U.N. General Assembly meeting on the war in Iraq. The assembly's General Committee will meet Friday morning to consider the request. April 9, 2003 From our team at the UN: Amid growing signs that support for a General Assembly session on Iraq was dwindling, and that a likely outcome was something like 50 votes in favour, 40 against, and 100 abstentions; and with the rapidly developing situation on the ground in Iraq, the Arab Group at the UN met at 3 PM today and within ten minutes decided to 'postpone' their request for a General Assembly session on Iraq. There is no timetable for 'unpostponing' the request, and our reading is that the situation will have to deteriorate VERY substantially for this initiative to move out of the 'dead letter' category, where it is now firmly ensconced.