Re: Lo stato canaglia

["Fulvio Grimaldi" <bassottovic at libero.it>]

Elenco prezioso e utile. Grazie.
Fulvio
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From: "Nello Margiotta" <animarg at tin.it>
To: <pck-pace at peacelink.it>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: Lo stato canaglia


> From: Kim Scipes <sscipe1 at ICARUS.CC.UIC.EDU>
>  Subject:      Rogue Nation
>  To: LABOR-L at YORKU.CA
>
>  Rogue Nation - Richard Du Boff
>
>  1. In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the 1972
>  Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the first
time
>  in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms control accord.
>
>  2. 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ratified by 144 nations
>  including the United States. In July 2001 the US walked out of a London
>  conference to discuss a 1994 protocol designed to strengthen the
Convention
>  by providing for on-site inspections. At Geneva in November 2001, US
>  Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated that "the protocol is dead,"
at
>  the same time accusing Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, and Syria
of
>  violating the Convention but offering no specific allegations or
supporting
>  evidence.
>
>  3. UN Agreement to Curb the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms,
July
>  2001: the US was the only nation to oppose it.
>
>  4. April 2001, the US was not reelected to the UN Human Rights
Commission,
>  after years of withholding dues to the UN (including current dues of $244
>  million)-and after having forced the UN to lower its share of the UN
budget
>  from 25 to 22 percent. (In the Human Rights Commission, the US stood
>  virtually alone in opposing resolutions supporting lower-cost access to
>  HIV/AIDS drugs, acknowledging a basic human right to adequate food, and
>  calling for a moratorium on the death penalty.)
>
>  5. International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, to be set up in The Hague
to
>  try political leaders and military personnel charged with war crimes and
>  crimes against humanity. Signed in Rome in July 1998, the Treaty was
>  approved by 120 countries, with 7 opposed (including the US). In October
>  2001 Great Britain became the 42nd nation to sign. In December 2001 the
US
>  Senate again added an amendment to a military appropriations bill that
> would
>  keep US military personnel from obeying the jurisdiction of the proposed
>  ICC.
>
>  6. Land Mine Treaty, banning land mines; signed in Ottawa in December
1997
>  by 122 nations. The United States refused to sign, along with Russia,
> China,
>  India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Egypt, and Turkey. President
Clinton
>  rejected the Treaty, claiming that mines were needed to protect South
Korea
>  against North Korea's "overwhelming military advantage." He stated that
the
>  US would "eventually" comply, in 2006; this was disavowed by President
Bush
>  in August 2001.
>
>  7. Kyoto Protocol of 1997, for controlling global warming: declared
"dead"
>  by President Bush in March 2001. In November 2001, the Bush
administration
>  shunned negotiations in Marrakech (Morocco) to revise the accord, mainly
by
>  watering it down in a vain attempt to gain US approval.
>
> > 8. In May 2001, refused to meet with European Union nations to discuss,
> even
>  at lower levels of government, economic espionage and electronic
> surveillance of phone calls, e-mail, and faxes (the US "Echelon" program),
>
>  9. Refused to participate in Organization for Economic Co-operation and
>  Development (OECD)-sponsored talks in Paris, May 2001, on ways to crack
> down
>  on off-shore and other tax and money-laundering havens.
>
>  10. Refused to join 123 nations pledged to ban the use and production of
>  anti-personnel bombs and mines, February 2001
>
>  11. September 2001: withdrew from International Conference on Racism,
>  bringing together 163 countries in Durban, South Africa
>
>  12. International Plan for Cleaner Energy: G-8 group of industrial
nations
>  (US, Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, UK), July 2001: the
US
>  was the only one to oppose it.
>
>  13. Enforcing an illegal boycott of Cuba, now being made tighter. In the
UN
>  in October 2001, the General Assembly passed a resolution, for the tenth
>  consecutive year, calling for an end to the US embargo, by a vote of 167
to
>  3 (the US, Israel, and the Marshall Islands in opposition).
>
>  14. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty. Signed by 164 nations and
>  ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia; signed by
>  President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The US is
one
>  of 13 nonratifiers among countries that have nuclear weapons or nuclear
>  power programs. In November 2001, the US forced a vote in the UN
Committee
>  on Disarmament and Security to demonstrate its opposition to the Test Ban
>  Treaty.
>
>  15. In 1986 the International Court of Justice (The Hague) ruled that the
> US
>  was in violation of international law for "unlawful use of force" in
>  Nicaragua, through its actions and those of its Contra proxy army. The US
> refused to recognize the Court's jurisdiction. A UN resolution calling for
>  compliance with the Court's decision was approved 94-2 (US and Israel
> voting
>  no).
>
>  16. In 1984 the US quit UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural
>  Organization) and ceased its payments for UNESCO's budget, over the New
>  World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) project designed to
> lessen
>  world media dependence on the "big four" wire agencies (AP, UPI, Agence
>  France-Presse, Reuters). The US charged UNESCO with "curtailment of press
>  freedom," as well as mismanagement and other faults, despite a 148-1 in
> vote
>  in favor of NWICO in the UN. UNESCO terminated NWICO in 1989; the US
>  nonetheless refused to rejoin. In 1995 the Clinton administration
proposed
>  rejoining; the move was blocked in Congress and Clinton did not press the
>  issue. In February 2000 the US finally paid some of its arrears to the UN
>  but excluded UNESCO, which the US has not rejoined.
>
>  17. Optional Protocol, 1989, to the UN's International Covenant on Civil
> and
>  Political Rights, aimed at abolition of the death penalty and containing
a
>  provision banning the execution of those under 18. The US has neither
> signed
>  nor ratified and specifically exempts itself from the latter provision,
>  making it one of five countries that still execute juveniles (with Saudi
>  Arabia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria). China abolished the
>  practice in 1997, Pakistan in 2000.
>
>  18. 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
>  against Women. The only countries that have signed but not ratified are
the
>  US, Afghanistan, Sao Tome and Principe.
>
>  19. The US has signed but not ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the
Rights
>  of the Child, which protects the economic and social rights of children.
> The
>  only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has no functioning
>  government.
>
>  20. UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
> 1966,
>  covering a wide range of rights and monitored by the Committee on
Economic,
>  Social and Cultural Rights. The US signed in 1977 but has not ratified.
>
>  21. UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
> Genocide,
>  1948. The US finally ratified in 1988, adding several "reservations" to
the
>  effect that the US Constitution and the "advice and consent" of the
Senate
>  are required to judge whether any "acts in the course of armed conflict"
>  constitute genocide. The reservations are rejected by Britain, Italy,
>  Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Mexico, Estonia, and others.
>
>  22. Is the status of "we're number one!" Rogue overcome by generous
foreign
>  aid to given less fortunate countries? The three best aid providers,
>  measured by the foreign aid percentage of their gross domestic products,
> are
>  Denmark (1.01%), Norway (0.91%), and the Netherlands (0.79), The three
>  worst: USA (0.10%), UK (0.23%), Australia, Portugal, and Austria (all
> 0.26).
>
>
>  rbd / 19 Dec 01
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