This isn’t being smart, but why does it take 9 months to produce a report ?

‘UN siding with corporations, imperialism since inception
The United Nations has from the very beginning of its inception been a “sham” and sided with “corporations and corrupt imperialist societies” when it comes to how it has handled repressive governments and the establishment of the Zionist regime of Israel, among other things, says an analyst.

Press TV has conducted an interview with the member of Dignity, Human Rights and Peace Organization, Randy Short from Washington to further discuss the issue.

The program also offers the opinions of two other guests, co-director of the International Action Center, Sara Flounders from New York and Professor at the Notre Dame University, Eugene Dabbous, from Beirut.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Mr. Short as the report was also suggesting, critics are saying that the discriminatory right of use of veto, first of all at the UN Security Council has rendered it unable to bring about world security. If you agree with this, how can this problem be resolved?

Short: Well, the problem can be resolved, if you ask me, if the nations threaten to withdraw from the UN instead of continuing to play the same game, they need to change the game that they are playing and demand that the rules change before they come back.

They have gone along with this way too long and the UN has been a sham in terms of defending the rights of black, brown and yellow nations since its inception.

Whether it was the corruption in how it handled the current goal, the fraud and how the … Israel came into being, the support for the repressive governments in Latin America, the silence around the Vietnam and so forth, the persecution of groups like the Dalits in India. You constantly see them edging and being on the side of the powerful corporations and the corrupt imperialist societies and the nation states and people need to say we’d rather not be a part of your game.

Press TV: When we are looking at the options that are right now on the table when it comes to reforms, one writer has written in a book about the UN reform that the US and its allies and I am quoting from his book “Labor to undermine the UN while also using it to further their own military or political or economic objectives.”

When we are speaking about UN reform with America’s voice behind it, how is that different from UN reform when Brazil or India or Iran’s voice is behind it?

Short: Well, you know, there is an irony and I need to just speak to it, there is this pre-supposition and I keep encountering this where the white supremacists, the racist countries, they are the only ones that are objective.

Ok, so if you are not a white European country, you are not Canada, the United States, you cannot be objective if you want something. Only they can be!

So if Iran has objectives to defend its ally, Syria, something is wrong with them but when America rejects every vote against Israel, it is somehow correct. And I want to differ with the speaker Russia and China’s defense of Syria is based on International law.

What America does for Israel is in violation of International law and what the United States and its prominent members tend to do is not only undermining global peace [but] they suppress persons like myself.

The African-American people for example are the largest single ethnic nationality group in the world and we have no power. We are not free, we constitute 14 percent of the world’s prison population and yet these people, who have never given my people freedom, are dictating and talking about justice and fairness and they cannot be trusted when they are not even fair within their own borders.

So, you know, why cannot Iran assert its right? It needs to. It has been under attack for over thirty years by the United States and Britain because they want to steal the people’s oil.

Brazil wants to be free. The United States destroyed their government in 1964 and put them under a dictatorship that bankrupted the country until recently– India the same thing. They were ripped off by the British who killed 60 million of their people.

Why can’t they want to protect themselves from further incursions on their freedom and their development? Why is that strange or wrong?

Press TV: Would you say that the United States is not the only one who is going to oppose this reform at the Security Council when it comes to increasing the permanent members for one?

Short: It’s going to with its friends France who are the same people who are attacking Syria, the same people that destroyed Libya, the same people that are destroying Iraq and Afghanistan and the same people who are supporting AFRICOM and the re-colonization of Africa. They’re not going to give up anything. So the United States isn’t alone.

It perhaps may be the most vociferous or outspoken; but if you look at Prime Minister Hollande who came in as a reformer and he is like Obama a war hawk and you look at Cameron and Britain, you have got people who know that they have an empire based on going back to the colonial times, the slavery and owning countries outright.

They now have an economic slave system over many countries and they have no desire to see that change.

And if we can be honest, as the United States instigates conflicts against China and Vietnam, against China and the Philippines, against China and Japan; the Chinese probably do not want more American allies on the Security Council to jump them.

And as the United States surrounds Russia with bases in Central Asia, these countries probably do not want change, not so much because they could not deal with the other countries that tend to be more favorable towards them than the United States but because they do not want it stacked with American proxies, with countries like Turkey that would destroy a neighbor for a mess of pottage of inclusion as a part of the EEC [European Economic Community] and NATO.

Warning: This article contains graphic human rights abuse in Canada

Tue Oct 9, 2012 2:47PM GMT
By Ismail Salami
Besides, the UN’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, has included Canada in a list of the world’s worst on human rights, and criticized Quebec’s Bill 78 for restricting freedom of assembly…Canada is a land of broken promises; a country where the first dwellers are so agonizingly deprived of their basic rights; a country where the dignity of man is brazenly cast to dust. A country, which so barefacedly pontificates about human rights violations elsewhere disregards respect for human rights and is for its part dismally landed in a morass of abysmal hypocrisy.”
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In June 2008, Canada officially apologized for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into ghastly residential schools where they were abused sexually, psychologically and physically.

Residential schools were set up with the assumption that aboriginal culture failed to adapt to the dominant modern society. They thought native children could be successful if they assimilated into mainstream Canadian society by adopting Christianity and speaking either English or French. Resident students were shunned from speaking their mother tongue and if they had, they would have gone through the worst conceivable form of punishment. Sexual and mental abuse was the common experience among the indigenous students who were forced to attend the so-called religious schools by the government. For most of the year, they were away from their parents. The concept of assimilation was a big lie and the children eventually left schools with a broken spirit and an amputated soul.

There are reports and tales of horrendous abuse at the hands of residential school staff: physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological. The education they received at schools was infernally inferior: their training was basically focused on manual labor in agriculture, and light industry. Instances and forms of abuse at such schools were legion: physical abuse was tantamount to corporeal punishment; sexual abuse was a common practice and psychological abuse was what the staff members were good at. Students were beaten, strapped, and shackled to their beds. Their tongues were pierced with needles as a punishment for speaking their native language.

This was how the Indian in the aborigines was executed by the government and how the residential schools had turned into a safe haven for the colonizing pedophiles. Arthur Plint, a dorm supervisor, who was accused of 18 counts of sexual assaults (children aged 6 to sixteen), was an egregious instance of this ethical decadence.

Willy Blackwater is a victim of Plint’s inhumanity. He was the first aboriginal person in Canada to win a medical claim for post-traumatic stress disorder. A survivor of the Alberni Indian Residential School, Blackwater speaks of his tormentor at school:
“Arthur Henry Plint was the dorm supervisor for the younger boys, boys my age. My first week there, he woke me up in the middle of the night. He told me to come into his office because there was an emergency phone call from my father. . . . He had a door from the office right into his bedroom. He took me there and dropped his robe and faced me, naked. . . . I started to get sick and tried to puke. He laughed and told me that if I puked on his bed, I’d get hurt. . . . After that, Plint raped me. . .about once a month for the next three years. I finally got up my nerve to tell Mr. Butler what Plint was doing to me. . . Butler gave me a severe strapping and called me a dirty, lying Indian.”

Known as a sexual terrorist, Plint continued to torment native children for twenty years. This torment was “condoned by the authorities, by our society. We talk about equality; we talk about the rights of society. These young men had no rights; their childhood was stolen from them.”

Plint is only a microcosm of cultural abuse in Canada.

As the church was seen to be partly responsible for the sexual maltreatment of the schoolchildren, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his “sorrow” on April 29, 2009 to a delegation from Canada’s Assembly of First Nations for the abuse and “deplorable” treatment that aboriginal students had received at Church-run residential schools. The United Church of Canada formally apologized to Canada’s First Nations people in 1986.

“To those individuals who were physically, sexually, and mentally abused as students of the Indian Residential Schools in which the United Church of Canada was involved, I offer you our most sincere apology,” the statement by the church’s General Council Executive said.

By way of soothing internal and international concerns, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper also said in an effort to fight back his crocodile tears, “The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly. We are sorry.”

These emotional moments of Mr. Harper’s were soon forgotten and the violation of the rights of the aborigines continued systematically.

The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) says Canada is ignoring the basic human rights of the poorest and most vulnerable Canadian women. FAFIA spokesperson Sharon McIvor says, “Canada is the home of serious violations of the human rights of Aboriginal women and girls.”
Phenomenally, aboriginal women and young girls have long started to vanish. So far, more than 600 of them are missing. Many of them have been reportedly raped, mutilated and murdered. Unfortunately, the Canadian law enforcement forces have not taken any practical steps to discover the whereabouts of these female victims or find the culprits.

Besides, the UN’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, has included Canada in a list of the world’s worst on human rights, and criticized Quebec’s Bill 78 for restricting freedom of assembly.

Amnesty International’s secretary general Salil Shetty has scathingly criticized the Canadian government for its serious human rights violations.

“There is a real shrinking of democratic spaces in this country… Many organizations have lost their funding for raising inconvenient questions,” AFP quoted Shetty as saying.

Canada is a land of broken promises; a country where the first dwellers are so agonizingly deprived of their basic rights; a country where the dignity of man is brazenly cast to dust.

A country, which so barefacedly pontificates about human rights violations elsewhere disregards respect for human rights and is for its part dismally landed in a morass of abysmal hypocrisy.