Thursday, January 01, 2004

Pope on New International Order Posted here Thursday, January 01, 2004 at 3:51:34 PM     Intersting call by the Pope for peace, this from his christmas message This represents a significant incentive for a reform which would enable the United Nations Organization to function effectively for the pursuit of its own stated ends, which remain valid: "humanity today is in a new and more difficult phase of its genuine development. It needs a greater degree of international ordering."(5) States must consider this objective as a clear moral and political obligation which calls for prudence and determination. Here I would repeat the words of encouragement which I spoke in 1995: "The United Nations Organization needs to rise more and more above the cold status of an administrative institution and to become a moral center where all the nations of the world feel at home and develop a shared awareness of being, as it were, a family of nations." for text ********

Two articles Posted here Thursday, January 01, 2004 at 10:06:02 AM     Been doing lots of reading. Books. More to be posted this weekend. In the meantime, very good, Very good article - a voice - not "objective" - in The London Review http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/print/papp01_.html   and the very interesting review of the history of the neocons and realists in the two Bush admins and more .   http://billmon.org/archives/000924.html ********