The "International*Army" that needs to be created is a Peace*Creating Force, not a peace keeping force, which is just the result that national departments of peace will foster.

An army whose mission is to build the infrastructure and community of cooperation, tolerance and sustainable peace, a "force" of positive energy and assistance.

BL*M

Thanks, Arthur, for your contribution to this important international holiday, and especially for your review of Chavez's speech. He's quite the hero, eh? I only wish he were not given to the same black-and-white thinking as the radical right. For example,

While this particular incarnation of the UN may not be viable, words like "collapsed" and "worthless" provide a powerful weapon to the very imperialists we are trying to overcome.

Also, I am not enjoying the button-pushing feeling of this statement:

I don't care if it's Martians who are drafting the charter - the point is to empower the international community by giving unconditional support to the effort, and then work for change from within. And speaking of Martians:

Sure, but it doesn't take very much imagination to suggest one's own country! I propose the space station as a venue that would provide all parties with neutral turf. Let's put our space program in the service of Star Peace!

There's that button-pushing behavior again. IMHO, it's the effects of the veto that are devastating, not the "mechanism" itself. I propose that we strengthen the mechanism instead by extending it to all members in a one-vote, one-veto system. This would force us into finding solutions that work for everyone.

Right on!!

Editor, propeace.net

Submitted by peace is possible on September 14, 2006 - 6:02pm.

For all countries to be protected an international peace keeping force must be created.
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Greetings and peace to all propeace members. I am new to the site and this will be my first posting. I write as a Canadian from central British Columbia.

I would like to comment on peace is possible's suggestion of an international peace keeping force under the auspices of the UNO. I find that proposition, as the UN currently stands, somewhat disturbing and I will explain why.

Since its inception on June 26, 1945 the UNO has failed to live up to its expectations due to some very serious structural flaws that were set in place prior to the formation of this historic organization. The truth is that the UNO was in fact a front organization for the International Financiers but on the surface was designed to appear as a peacekeeping organization.

Most people today, 63 years after its formation, fail to recall that the organization’s drafting was heavily influenced by top U.S. and Soviet representatives and in the case of the U.S.A. these key figures turned out to be Communist agents and spies.

I’m referring here to Mr. Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White. Hiss had been a strong influence at Dumbarton Oaks Estate and an architect of the document that eventually became the Charter of the UNO. In 1944, as an official of the State Department and then later as the first Secretary-General, the top administrative officer of the newly formed United Nations, he had a powerful directing effect upon the shape of the organization for world peace. He had also been with Roosevelt at Yalta and was instrumental in shaping the US’s decision to surrender half of Europe to the Bolshevik Communists during the final stages of WW 2. Later, in 1948, both he and White were accused by Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist agent, who was then a Senior Editor at Time magazine, of being Soviet agents and spies and after two tremendous court cases that rocked and divided the nation for two years, was finally convicted of the charge of perjury in January of 1951 and sent to jail. White, who was the first President of the World Bank, also set up by the UNO, mysteriously died of a “heart attack” before he could appear in court.

Now with that history in mind I would like to share with readers some recent statements on the UNO by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who spoke to the General Assembly only yesterday (Sept 20). He had these comments to make with respect to how the UN is currently set up and how it must change in order to be a truly fair and democratic organization:

Hugo Chavez:

“I don’t think anybody in this room could defend the system. Let’s accept — let’s be honest. The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It’s worthless.

Oh, yes, it’s good to bring us together once a year, see each other, make statements and prepare all kinds of long documents, and listen to good speeches, like Abel’s yesterday, or President Mullah’s . Yes, it’s good for
that.

And there are a lot of speeches, and we’ve heard lots from the president of Sri Lanka, for instance, and the president of Chile.

But we, the assembly, have been turned into a merely deliberative organ. We have no power, no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world. And that is why Venezuela once again proposes, here, today, 20 September, that we re-establish the United Nations.

Last year, Madam, we made four modest proposals that we felt to be crucially important. We have to assume the responsibility our heads of state, our ambassadors, our representatives, and we have to discuss it.

The first is expansion, and Mullah talked about this yesterday right here.The Security Council, both as it has permanent and non-permanent categories, (inaudible) developing countries and LDCs must be given access as new permanent members. That’s step one.

Second, effective methods to address and resolve world conflicts,transparent decisions.

Point three, the immediate suppression — and that is something everyone’s calling for — of the anti-democratic mechanism known as the veto, the veto on decisions of the Security Council.

Let me give you a recent example. The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.

Fourthly, we have to strengthen, as we’ve always said, the role and the powers of the secretary general of the United Nations.

Yesterday, the secretary general practically gave us his speech of farewell. And he recognized that over the last 10 years, things have just gotten more complicated; hunger, poverty, violence, human rights violations have just worsened. That is the tremendous consequence of the collapse of the United Nations system and American hegemonistic pretensions.

Madam, Venezuela a few years ago decided to wage this battle within the United Nations by recognizing the United Nations, as members of it that we are, and lending it our voice, our thinking.

Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet.

…We want ideas to save our planet, to save the planet from the imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century, in not too long a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and for our children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on the fundamental principles of the United Nations, but a renewed United Nations. And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We’ve proposed Venezuela.”

I feel strongly, as do many of the members of the UN who are always neutralized by the infamous “veto” of certain nations, that until these discrepancies are erased and the organization is truly democratic with each nation possessing only one vote and no veto power that to give this organization a powerful army would be to fulfill the Communist/Bolshevik/Zionist agenda for creating a one world government that would then turn into mankind’s worst nightmare of a global totalitarian state.

If the UNO was truly reformed as Chavez and others wish then I believe we could work out the problems without force and without any “International” army and yes, then peace would be possible.

That is my contribution for the World Day of Peace, September 21, 2006.

Blessings and Peace and Love to all,

Arthur Topham
Pub/Ed
The Radical Press
http://www.radicalpress.com

and here it the crux of the issue.

4. all countries must agree on the international definitions of laws one, two and three.

perhaps a good way to accomplish this is to encourage the creation of the Western Continental Union and the Eastern World Union to join with the European Union in developing such a peace keeping reality.

Three laws, three unions, one agreement, representing the diversity of shared values.

KISS*IT - Keep It Simple, Safe and Internationally Together

BL*M