United Nations

Back in 2013, the catalyst used by the US to intervene in the Syrian conflict which started in the aftermath of the Arab Spring (which according to some was inspired by CIA intervention), was a YouTube clip allegedly showing a sarin gas attack by Assad troops on his own people in the town of Ghouta, which reportedly led to hundreds of casualties. Subsequently, the video was shown to have been a hoax, but by then it was too late as the US was actively involved in the proxy war, which in the summer of 2013 nearly escalated to a naval conflict between the US and Russia.

Submitted by Jesse Tremblay via PlanetFreeWill.com,

The New York Times has reported that “a panel of French judges has decided not to bring charges against soldiers accused of having sexually abused children while on a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic”.

Submitted by Rick Sterling via Strategic-Culture.org,

A former US ambassador to the UN has urged Donald Trump to punish the Obama administration for deliberately sabotaging relations with Israel. John Bolton says that the recent UN Security Council resolution on Israel was a deliberate ploy by Obama and others to “box Donald Trump in.” Sputniknews.com reports: “I just think it was a very bad idea,” Bolton said during an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.

Sarah Palin has called on the US President-elect Donald Trump to extricate Washington from the United Nations over the recent vote on Israel’s illegal construction of settlements in Palestine. The former republican governor said there were two ways the future president could remove the country from the UN. Press TV reports: “One is, I called for our next president, Donald Trump, to call for the unshackling of the political bands tying us to the UN,” she said.