Wat nodig is, is een onmiddellijk staakt-het-vuren. De Verenigde Naties falen het Handvest als ze vrede niet tot prioriteit maken en het hele systeem in dienst stellen van vrede. Alfred de Zayas over de oorlog in Oekraïne (vertaald en overgenomen van Counterpunch).
Read MoreAlfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18. He is the author of ten books including “Building a Just World Order”. De Zayas is also a returning guest to Potkaars. The last time we spoke was the day before Russia took its military action in Ukraïne in February. It is 26 September 2022 when we speak again while a referendum on secession is taking place in eastern Ukraïne regions. I re-invited mr. De Zayas, to learn his assessment on the validity of the referendum and of the actions by Ukraïne, Russia, the EU and the US under international law and treaties. We recorded this interview the day before the Nord Stream I and II pipelines were blown up in the Baltic sea. In this conversation Alfred de Zayas discusses the use of coercive measures as deployed by the US.
Read More“By and large the system functions or so I thought. But when I started scratching the surface of this case, That to me was profoundly shocking: to see how much dirt was coming to the surface”.
Nils Melzer in 2016 was appointed as the Special Rapporteur on Torture for the United nations. In 2019 he assessed that Julian Assange showed all signs of being a victim of psychological torture. Shortly after Melzer started his investigation, Assange was removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and transferred to Belmarsh prison where he remains to this day fighting extradition to the United States.
Bailey Lamon and Rico Brouwer talk to Melzer in this 90 minute interview for a chapter in their own upcoming book; ‘the Whistleblowers Book of Courage’. How can it be that the United Nations rapporteur on torture, appointed by the countries of the world to report on torture is now considered a whistle-blower for just doing his job?
Read MoreDe OPCW heeft het incident van 7 april 2018 in Douma Syrië onderzocht en stelde in haar rapport dat: "chloor, of een andere reactieve chloorhoudende chemische stof, waarschijnlijk is vrijgekomen". Volgens klokkenluiders is die conclusie: "zeer misleidend en niet door de feiten ondersteund".
Schrijver en journalist Peter Hitchens uit Londen heeft onlangs de OPCW-klokkenluiders bezocht en doet verslag.
..Somehow you can manage one WikiLeaks and one Julian Assange, but if you have ten thousand of these organisations and journalists popping up that use the internet so effectively to expose secret information, that obviously would no longer be manageable for these states and it could really change the way that world affairs are being conducted very fundamentally. And that’s what these states are afraid of. Interview with Nils Melzer, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture.
Read MoreFormer high-level official for the UN Andrew Macleod blew the whistle on a pedophilia network of massive proportions involving thousands of United Nations employees wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of innocent children. In this Potkaars interview Andrew explains what the response of the UN was to his reporting and how child rape and sexual abuse by aid-organisations employees should be addressed.
Read MoreInterview turned masterclass on history and international law. Alfred De Zayas is outspoken: ‘what shocks me in the case of Venezuela is not that a demented president wants to irrigate upon himself the right to determine “I want this person as president of Venezuela and I want this person as whatever” but the fact that the Dutch the French the Spaniards the Canadians have followed suit so you have here actually a revolt against international law carried out not by banana republics but is carried out by countries that claim to be committed to democracy rule of law and human rights’.
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