Can the UN bring peace
Can the UN bring peace? ... This is completely natural when daily we see more civilians being killed in Yugoslavia and it is clear the US in particular just circumvented the UN so it could wage the war unimpeded. Any pretence that there is an "international law" agreed by the UN has been flouted by those leading the NATO alliance. Clinton is remodelling NATO as a force through which US imperialism can further its "strategic interests", because he knows that he would have trouble pushing his agenda through at the UN Security Council. China and Russia are on the UN Security Council. ... However, it would be a mistake, having seen through the role of NATO, to then pin hopes on the UN. The UN was set up in the interests of the Great Powers, not ordinary people. In the wake of World War Two the "victorious" powers devised the UN as an instrument of their will. ... The UN was used to agree the carve up that happened after World War Two, where the victors marked out their ownership of the countries they had "liberated".