Team Crash Test Dummies
Got to tell you first, I aw a picture on Telegram of John Kerry from the US and Israeli PM Netenyahu titled ‘Crash Test Dummies go to Davos.’ It struck me as so funny; the World Economic Forum crowd meets next week, and the news will be in all the press. Maybe decisions made there will be relevant, maybe not; it strikes me as obvious the validity of the meet-up will be in who’s in attendance.
Betcha the numbers are reduced.
Anyhow, Pepe Escobar, I do like him, has a brilliant piece in The Cradle this morning: https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/18338 titled: BRICS Member South Africa Takes Zionism to Court.
Today, the International Court of Justice is meeting over Palestine: (from South Africa, over 3 hours long, begins at 11 mins, and just streamed 6 hours ago…I haven’t watched the whole thing, yet):
Escobar elucidates a lot on what’s going on in South Africa, the unfolding tragedy in Palestine and the nonsense of the zionism in Israel. With respect, I am going to write about Escobar’s view of the International Rules Based Order as they apply. I completely agree with him.
And, begin with my constant Chrystia Freeland speech citing: https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2017/06/address_by_ministerfreelandoncanadasforeignpolicypriorities.html.
Readers should note I have never listed what the International Rules are, just keep repeating that speech citation. Anyone who’s ever actually read it, should notice the rules aren’t actually defined, they are what the Americans say they are. American Hegemony, I have gone on about.
To quote Escobar on what’s going in Palestine:
It took an African nation, not an Arab or Muslim nation, but significantly a BRICS member, to try to break the iron chains deployed by Zionism via fear, financial might, and non-stop threats, enslaving not only Palestine but substantial swathes of the planet.
And
Whether Pretoria's current efforts succeed or not, this case is likely to be only the first of its kind filed in courts around the world in the months and even years ahead. The BRICS – of which South Africa is a crucial member state – are part of the new swell of international organizations challenging western hegemony and its ‘rules-based order.’ These rules mean nothing; nobody has even seen them.
In part, multipolarism has emerged to redress the decades-long shift away from the UN Charter and rush toward the lawlessness embodied in these illusory 'rules.' The nation-state system that underpins the global order cannot function without the international law that secures it. Without the law, we face war, war, and more war; the Hegemon's ideal universe of endless war, in fact.
South Africa's genocide case against Israel is blatantly necessary to reverse these flagrant violations of the international system, and will almost certainly be the first of many such litigations against both Israel and its allies to shift the world back to stability, security, and common sense.
The International Rules are just some oblique thing giving Americans dominance by virtue of the power of their dollar and its status as Reserve Currency. The USD has lost importance, think cracks, so everything American politicos dominate is also beginning to shatter.
The big deal is not the CAD relevance to the USD but to International Trade. And, the International Rules Based Order is NOT reference to the UN and International Law, but American dominance.
That’s over, and the politicos in the White House don’t like it.
Escobar is right, they will fight to keep it, but, like Israel, will fight unfairly breaking every International Law in the battle. Consequently, lose even more respect.
Canada should NOT be aligned with these guys; fighting dirty gives one a bad reputation. A very bad one in light of the stuff we have done on our own.
Song is very appropriate if we don’t change things.