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KPFA: Phyllis Bennis on US at UN: Coalition of the Willing or Coalition of the Coerced?
Phyllis Bennis reviews U.S. strategy to get resolution approval in the U.N. Security Council
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On Wednesday the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) released a report entitled
"Coalition of the Willing
or Coalition of the Coerced?" The 13 page report is available
on their website.
IPS UN and Middle East expert Phyllis
Bennis spoke about the report with the KPFA
Morning Show staff today. The interview is attached in broadband and narrowband
versions. The tone of the interview is set at the start, with Bennis
noting:
"The U.S. is claiming that every country is free to make up its own minds, and that [the U.S. is] only trying to persuade other governments on the merits of the case. ... What's actually going is a huge campaign of bribes and pressures on every country on the council that has not yet declared itself in support of the U.S. position."
Bennis notes that the U.S. has even been attempting to set the terms of the
debate by showing indignation at the suggestion that bribes and coercion is
central to it's policy making strategy. An example can be seen with Ari
Fleischer's White House Press Briefing on February 25th. Fleischer was literally
laughed off the stage when he failed to counter the press corps view that
bribes and arm twisting is the norm. Fleischer can be seen sprinting off
the stage on CSPAN's most watched video
section (advance to the last two minutes) and an mp3 audio clip of the
conference is here.
News story here.
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Further context:
On Sunday, March 2, The Observer (weekend sister paper to The Guardian, one of the world's best English papers) broke a story proving that the U.S. has been using the NSA to wiretap telephones of U.N. Security Council diplomats.
Just another day in the machinations of the right-wing Bush Junta....
The full story, including the actual leaked memo, is found here:
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
It appears that some European intelligence agency worker with a conscience saw this memo and felt it was in the best interest of the world that it get leaked.
Daniel Ellsberg, America's most famous "leaker" (Pentagon Papers) has been going around the country speaking about his new book, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers," telling people that those in the know have the power to stop this war by leaking documents. As of yet, there hasn't been a single blockbuster leak. But there certainly have been damaging smaller ones.
On Sunday, March 2, The Observer (weekend sister paper to The Guardian, one of the world's best English papers) broke a story proving that the U.S. has been using the NSA to wiretap telephones of U.N. Security Council diplomats.
Just another day in the machinations of the right-wing Bush Junta....
The full story, including the actual leaked memo, is found here:
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
It appears that some European intelligence agency worker with a conscience saw this memo and felt it was in the best interest of the world that it get leaked.
Daniel Ellsberg, America's most famous "leaker" (Pentagon Papers) has been going around the country speaking about his new book, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers," telling people that those in the know have the power to stop this war by leaking documents. As of yet, there hasn't been a single blockbuster leak. But there certainly have been damaging smaller ones.
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