Global Policy Forum offers its take on reform.
Nations can agree on the Council’s shortcomings, but they differ sharply on the necessary solutions. All agree, for example, that the Council’s membership and institutional structures reflect outdated geopolitical realities and political thinking, shaped by the world of 1945. The five permanent members, with their vetoes and many [...]
Continue Reading July 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Metaphores seem to be a little too brainy for the warmongers but here is another.
It is perfectly clear what the United States has to do. It must abandon its deformed offspring in Baghdad, the hapless regime of Shiite fanatics and Kurdish warlords, and pray that it can establish direct talks with the people it is [...]
Continue Reading July 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Now that is obviously no way near the 100.000 previously claimed but on the other hand it only deals with death as a direct result of combat or armed violence.
Some 39,000 Iraqis have been killed as a direct result of combat or armed violence since the U.S.-led invasion, a figure considerably higher than previous estimates, [...]
Continue Reading July 16th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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