« North Korea Responds to Trump’s Fire and Fury ThreatNew Illegal US Sanctions on Venezuela »

UN Sides with Fascists in Venezuela

August 11th, 2017

Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)

The UN is more an appendage of US foreign policy than a world body upholding its charter principles - far from it.

Former Jordanian UN envoy Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein is a member of its royal family, the nation hostile to democracy, notorious for human rights abuses, notably lack of free expression, political imprisonments and use of torture.

In September 2014, he succeeded US imperial tool Navi Pillay as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a dismal choice - serving his imperial master like his predecessor since taking office.

On August 8, he disgracefully accused Venezuelan security forces of street violence - orchestrated by Washington, not them, part of a diabolical CIA plot to replace Bolivarian social democracy with fascist tyranny.

He falsely claimed “widespread and systematic use of excessive force and arbitrary detentions against demonstrators in Venezuela,” along with “patterns of other human rights violations, including violent house raids, torture and ill-treatment of those detained in connection with the protests.”

Interviews were conducted with anti-Bolivarian elements, wanting the Maduro government toppled. So-called “witnesses” irresponsibly blamed security forces for doing their job, using crowd control methods to quell violence, arresting and detaining street thugs - what all just societies do to protect their citizens.

Hussein saying “responsibility for the human rights violations we are recording lies at the highest levels of government” is a bald-faced lie.

Washington in cahoots with Venezuelan fascists turned streets into battlegrounds. Instead of blaming perpetrators, Hussein held defenders of law and order responsible along with Maduro’s government.

Anti-Bolivarian dark forces in Washington and Caracas bear full responsibility for months of street violence, resulting in scores of deaths and hundreds of injuries.

It won’t end as long as the Trump administration maintains pressure for regime change. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights supporting perpetrators and slamming defenders defiles the office he holds and mandate he’s sworn to uphold.

-###-

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

VISIT MY NEW WEB SITE: stephenlendman.org (Home - Stephen Lendman)

My newest book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

No feedback yet

Voices

Voices

  • By David Swanson, World BEYOND War Switzerland got that way through NEUTRALITY Remarks at Neutrality Colloquium: A Call to Action for Active Neutrality & World Peace, June 26-27, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. I grew up in a town in the United States that…
  • Fred Gransville I. The Fluoride Question For decades, fluoride has had an uncontested official story: it is a beneficial, even benevolent substance—vital to healthy teeth. In toothpaste tubes to water supplies, fluoride has been presented as a dental…
  • Tracy Turner #SCOTUScorruption #FascistAmerica #EndCitizensUnited Bush started it. Obama enabled it. Trump perfected it. And the Court? It never checked power—it built it. I. Opening Jab: The Judicial Illusion "They wear robes to appear impartial. But…
  • Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic Carl von Clausewitz The focal questions about war In dealing with both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types of war exist?; 3) Why do wars…
  • By Tracy Turner What begins as an assault on immigrants ends as an assault on the Constitution itself. The Constitution Is Not a Loophole Come the summer of 2025, the sitting president of America is pushing the limits of constitutional tolerance yet…
  • By Tracy Turner I. The Faustian Bargain “Kids can’t eat pronouns. Families can’t pay bills with gender-neutral bathrooms.” Somewhere between Occupy Wall Street and “Latinx Heritage Month,” the Democratic Party lost the plot—and with it, the nation. In…
  • Fred Gransville 1. Russian Summer Offensive Advances on Multiple Axes Cutting-edge drone warfare Russia is deploying "unjammable" fiber-optic–linked drones across Donbas, Sumy, and Kharkiv, allowing coordinated tactical advances. These UAVs have enabled…
  • Fred Gransville I. Introduction The Lungs of the Earth Are Being Stabbed from All Sides In June 2025, the Amazon and Orinoco basins—twin arteries of South America's ecological soul—are hemorrhaging under a coordinated assault. These are not isolated…
  • Fred Gransville How Politicians and Corporations Are Sacrificing the Arctic—And Our Future—For Profit "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a…
  • by Dr. Althea Mentes I. Introduction In the ever-evolving pharmacopeia of modern medicine, few substances have traveled from criminalized taboo to mainstream therapeutic darling as rapidly as cannabinoids. Once dismissed as the intoxicants of the…
July 2025
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 << <   > >>
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

  XML Feeds

Forums software
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted articles and information about environmental, political, human rights, economic, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. This news and information is displayed without profit for educational purposes, in accordance with, Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Thepeoplesvoice.org is a non-advocacy internet web site, edited by non-affiliated U.S. citizens. editor
ozlu Sozler GereksizGercek Hava Durumu Firma Rehberi Hava Durumu Firma Rehberi E-okul Veli Firma Rehberi