Tag: UN Human Rights Council

Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BY: ALFRED DE ZAYAS

Anyone who has followed the political culture in the US, Canada, UK, EU over the past twenty years must have realized that a war on epistemology, on truth, on semantics is going on. We witness the hijacking of concepts like democracy, freedom, peace, patriotism, human rights — and their instrumentalization for domestic and geopolitical purposes. We observe a process of language destruction not unlike what Orwell foresaw in his sadly visionary book 1984. “Newspeak” is not the future, it is now, hic et nunc. We recognize it in the jargon of political correctness, the language and practice of the “cancel culture”.

COUNTERPUNCH: Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them!

Op-ed: U.S. return to Human Rights Council a mockery of its raison d’être

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By: Alfred de Zayas and Adriel Kasonta

The U.S. regained its seat on the UN Human Rights Council in an uncontested vote in the General Assembly on October 14 after the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump quit the 47-member body in 2018 citing the “chronic bias” against Israel.

Op-ed: U.S. return to Human Rights Council a mockery of its raison d’être

Sputnik News: Ex-UN Expert: If US Wants to Conduct COVID Probe In China, It Should Open Its Biolabs to Inspectors

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

OPINION 15:00 GMT 27.08.2021 by Ekaterina Blinova

A new US intelligence report on the origins of COVID-19 does not provide a definitive answer as to how the pandemic started. Retired UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order Alfred-Maurice de Zayas has sat down with Sputnik to discuss new US attempts to exert pressure on China.

Sputnik News: Ex-UN Expert: If US Wants to Conduct COVID Probe In China, It Should Open Its Biolabs to Inspectors