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How Double-Standards at the UN Combine with Disproportionate Western Influence in World Lending Agencie to Subvert rather than Promote Democracy

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas is a Cuban-born American lawyer and writer, active in the field of human rights and international law joins Bringog Light Intp Drkness to discuss the insights he has developed over the past 40 years of working for the United Nations as an international law expert.

Mr. de Zayas has been in the UN system for more than four decades as a senior staff person and attorney with the High Commission on Human Rights including as United Nations Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (2012–2018)

Other UN positions include working as a consultant once he took retirement and also as a rapporteur for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is the leading United Nations entity in the field of human rights, with a unique mandate to promote and protect all human rights for all people.

Please join us tonight as we review his recent article Double-Standards at the UN Human Rights Council, published 5/17/22 in Counterpunch. Mr de Zayas details hpw the UN Human Rights Council essentially serves the interests of the Western developed countries’ elite and in doing so creates a second class status for the rect of the world’s majority populations when it comes to the promotion and protection of human rights. Our guest describes how blackmail and bullying are common practices, and the US has proven that it has sufficient “soft power” to control weaker countries. The leaders of these countries get to join the club if they abandon the illusion of sovereignty and service totheir majority population interests and are rewarded accordingly by being called “democratic”. Learn about the politics that drive UN outcomes and the reality, despite the false image, that only major powers can afford to have their own opinions and to vote accordingly.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 6/6/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

The Character of a Nation is Revealed by those that Fight its Battles

The anniversary month of the Odessa massacre (5/2/14) of 48 peaceful unarmed protestors, revealed the character of a coup government that came to power with US support . Arguably it was US and western intelligence calling the shots regarding the post Ukraine 2014 coup repression which was led by neo nazi militias led by Azov forces. Burned alive in Odessa Trade Union Building, beaten to death as they tried to escape. This revealed the character of the government we brought to power and which led to the taking up of arms in the south and eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass.

Yet this event got barely a mention in US mainstream media. In Mariupol in the east as well Ukraine tanks rolled into the city to suppress peaceful protests against the unconstitutional coup that had overthrown their duly elected government. Jeremy Kuzmarov editor of Covert Action Magazine joins BLID to discuss this and other misrepresented 'news' coverage of our US foreign policy outcomes that was marked by the Feb 2014 coup we promoted.

Jeremy reviews the content of his 5/13/22 article he published on what was originally presented with absolute certainty as a Russian massacre of hundreds in Bucha but has since shaped up to appear to be another false flag event in early April. However, the unproven massacre by Russian troops in Bucha was used to escalate U.S. military intervention. Mission accomplished.

Tonight's show reminds us that the character of a nation lies in the allies that help fight in our foreign policy interventions. Death squads in Central America during the 1960s - 1990s. The Mujaheddin in Afghanistan, al Qaeda like groups leading the fight on behalf of US foreign policy in Syria and now neo nazi groups have been brought to power by our US promoted coup. What appears to be the truth, is not the truth & this time thousands of Ukrainians are paying the ultimate price.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/30/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

The Character of a Nation is Revealed by those that Fight its Battles

The anniversary month of the Odessa massacre (5/2/14) of 48 peaceful unarmed protestors, revealed the character of a coup government that came to power with US support . Arguably it was US and western intelligence calling the shots regarding the post Ukraine 2014 coup repression which was led by neo nazi militias led by Azov forces. Burned alive in Odessa Trade Union Building, beaten to death as they tried to escape. This revealed the character of the government we brought to power and which led to the taking up of arms in the south and eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Donbass.

Yet this event got barely a mention in US mainstream media. In Mariupol in the east as well Ukraine tanks rolled into the city to suppress peaceful protests against the unconstitutional coup that had overthrown their duly elected government. Jeremy Kuzmarov editor of Covert Action Magazine joins BLID to discuss this and other misrepresented 'news' coverage of our US foreign policy outcomes that was marked by the Feb 2014 coup we promoted.

Jeremy reviews the content of his 5/13/22 article he published on what was originally presented with absolute certainty as a Russian massacre of hundreds in Bucha but has since shaped up to appear to be another false flag event in early April. However, the unproven massacre by Russian troops in Bucha was used to escalate U.S. military intervention. Mission accomplished.

Tonight's show reminds us that the character of a nation lies in the allies that help fight in our foreign policy interventions. Death squads in Central America during the 1960s - 1990s. The Mujaheddin in Afghanistan, al Qaeda like groups leading the fight on behalf of US foreign policy in Syria and now neo nazi groups have been brought to power by our US promoted coup. What appears to be the truth, is not the truth & this time thousands of Ukrainians are paying the ultimate price.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/30/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

Scott Ritter Former UN Weapons Inspector Challenges the One sided Ukraine Narrative Generated by our US government leaders such as Rep Jamie Raskin

We live in a great country that affords us the latitude to pursue understandings of our choice. But our choices are increasingly not our own. Are we so thoroughly indoctrinated, mostly outside of our conscious awareness, to adopt a world perspective that rationalizes the oppression we may one day be steamrolled by?

One does not have to agree that Russia’s choice to launch its ‘special operation’ into the Ukraine was justified to see the truth that the USA and NATO provoked the invasion. One does not have to agree that the Russian decision to launch its special operation was justified to see that it was the US led coup of 2014 that largely set all these events into motion resulting in installing a government with far right neo Nazi influences throughout the highest levels of Ukraine government and military.

William Scott Ritter a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer joins BLID tonight. He served with the UN implementing arms control treaties, with General Norman Schwarzkopf in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq, overseeing the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as a United Nations weapons inspector, from 1991 to 1998. He famously warned Congress and any one who paid attention that there were no WMD. This life experience led him to later became a critic of United States foreign policy and challenge many of the its public claims including those in Ukraine

Ritter provides shocking insights including the history of how the CIA nurtured neo Nazi interests in service of US foreign policy since WWII rather than seeking to exterminate it. He discusses the current military situation as well as Russia’s interest to avoid an invasion and promote the Minsk Treaty and more. Please join us in our pursuit of getting closer to the truth of the current Ukraine crisis.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/16/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

Scott Ritter Former UN Weapons Inspector Challenges the One sided Ukraine Narrative Generated by our US government leaders such as Rep Jamie Raskin

We live in a great country that affords us the latitude to pursue understandings of our choice. But our choices are increasingly not our own. Are we so thoroughly indoctrinated, mostly outside of our conscious awareness, to adopt a world perspective that rationalizes the oppression we may one day be steamrolled by?

One does not have to agree that Russia’s choice to launch its ‘special operation’ into the Ukraine was justified to see the truth that the USA and NATO provoked the invasion. One does not have to agree that the Russian decision to launch its special operation was justified to see that it was the US led coup of 2014 that largely set all these events into motion resulting in installing a government with far right neo Nazi influences throughout the highest levels of Ukraine government and military.

William Scott Ritter a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer joins BLID tonight. He served with the UN implementing arms control treaties, with General Norman Schwarzkopf in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq, overseeing the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as a United Nations weapons inspector, from 1991 to 1998. He famously warned Congress and any one who paid attention that there were no WMD. This life experience led him to later became a critic of United States foreign policy and challenge many of the its public claims including those in Ukraine

Ritter provides shocking insights including the history of how the CIA nurtured neo Nazi interests in service of US foreign policy since WWII rather than seeking to exterminate it. He discusses the current military situation as well as Russia’s interest to avoid an invasion and promote the Minsk Treaty and more. Please join us in our pursuit of getting closer to the truth of the current Ukraine crisis.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/16/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

Evidence Continues to Mount that the US Public are being Misled into Demonizing Russia as having no Cause for their 2/24/22 Military Response in the Ukraine; True or False?

Dr King taught us to try to see the world through the eyes of our adversaries as well as our friends. International Legal Expert Dan Kovalik and investigative journalist Mike Whitney join Bringing Light Into Darkness to help identify a host of misrepresentations and proof supporting a potentially valid concern that what is being presented to the US public is rationalizing yet another US NATO provoked conflict. Please join us tonight as we lay out the evidence of these claims that suggest the possibility that Ukrainians are being sacrificed for US-NATO geopolitical interests. The result pf which is a catastrophic effect for not just Ukrainians who bear the brunt, but likely for majority populations of Europe..

International law expert Dan Kovalik, author and University of Pittsburg Professor of Human Rights law, rejoins Bringing Light Into Darkness to discuss a host of International Law connected issues and specifically address these concerns.

Has yet another unjust War been largely provoked by the West led by the US? We will provide shocking insights for you to consider regarding the veracity of these concerns. Insights that get no evening news air time. If the US public does not start questioning instead of ideologically supporting this conflict will it continue a pattern of our foreign policy past?

Please join us in our honest pursuit to get at the truth and let us know if we in any way are misrepresenting any truth in the content we wish you to critically examine..

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/9/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

Evidence Continues to Mount that the US Public are being Misled into Demonizing Russia as having no Cause for their 2/24/22 Military Response in the Ukraine; True or False?

Dr King taught us to try to see the world through the eyes of our adversaries as well as our friends. International Legal Expert Dan Kovalik and investigative journalist Mike Whitney join Bringing Light Into Darkness to help identify a host of misrepresentations and proof supporting a potentially valid concern that what is being presented to the US public is rationalizing yet another US NATO provoked conflict. Please join us tonight as we lay out the evidence of these claims that suggest the possibility that Ukrainians are being sacrificed for US-NATO geopolitical interests. The result pf which is a catastrophic effect for not just Ukrainians who bear the brunt, but likely for majority populations of Europe..

International law expert Dan Kovalik, author and University of Pittsburg Professor of Human Rights law, rejoins Bringing Light Into Darkness to discuss a host of International Law connected issues and specifically address these concerns.

Has yet another unjust War been largely provoked by the West led by the US? We will provide shocking insights for you to consider regarding the veracity of these concerns. Insights that get no evening news air time. If the US public does not start questioning instead of ideologically supporting this conflict will it continue a pattern of our foreign policy past?

Please join us in our honest pursuit to get at the truth and let us know if we in any way are misrepresenting any truth in the content we wish you to critically examine..

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/9/2022 [email protected]

If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X

In 2014 Was Crimea really Invaded and then Illegally Annexed by Russia? Plus, Minsk Treaty Violations, 14 Thousand civilian deaths & Signs of an Impending Ukraine Slaughter in the Donbass all before the Russian Invasion

When you hear someone argue that Russia is unfairly being demonized what examples or proof for such an assertion would constitute that a such a claim might have merit? Tonight’s show gives a detailed analysis of a couple of such gross misrepresentations to the American public. Claims that sought to incriminate Russia, make Russia look like the evil aggressor if you will include that Russia aggressively and illegally annexed Crimea following the US February 2014 coup and that before they annexed Crimea thousands of Russian troops illegally invaded the Crimea ahead of that annexation. Two claims made by the US government and that were uncritically accepted and endlessly repeated since our main stream media and government pundits.

International law expert Alfredo de Zayas rejoins Bringing Light Into Darkness to discuss International Law and specifically address these concerns. Mr. De Zayas is an author, journalist and a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a United Nations Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18.

We conclude the show with an important update on additional misunderstood and underreported contradictions regarding the Ukraine Russia conflict as geopolitical expert and investigative journalist Mike Whitney brings us up to speed around the betrayal of the Minsk Agreement by the west and the UN as well as the acceleration of bombing attacks some 30-fold by the Ukraine Army in the Donbass just days before the 2/24/22 Russian invasion. Increasingly is evidence emerging that what was presented as an unprovoked invasion by Russia of Ukraine was in fact provoked by Ukraine with the full backing of the US?

Please join us in our honest pursuit to get at the truth.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/2/2022 [email protected]

In 2014 Was Crimea really Invaded and then Illegally Annexed by Russia? Plus, Minsk Treaty Violations, 14 Thousand civilian deaths & Signs of an Impending Ukraine Slaughter in the Donbass all before the Russian Invasion

When you hear someone argue that Russia is unfairly being demonized what examples or proof for such an assertion would constitute that a such a claim might have merit? Tonight’s show gives a detailed analysis of a couple of such gross misrepresentations to the American public. Claims that sought to incriminate Russia, make Russia look like the evil aggressor if you will include that Russia aggressively and illegally annexed Crimea following the US February 2014 coup and that before they annexed Crimea thousands of Russian troops illegally invaded the Crimea ahead of that annexation. Two claims made by the US government and that were uncritically accepted and endlessly repeated since our main stream media and government pundits.

International law expert Alfredo de Zayas rejoins Bringing Light Into Darkness to discuss International Law and specifically address these concerns. Mr. De Zayas is an author, journalist and a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a United Nations Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18.

We conclude the show with an important update on additional misunderstood and underreported contradictions regarding the Ukraine Russia conflict as geopolitical expert and investigative journalist Mike Whitney brings us up to speed around the betrayal of the Minsk Agreement by the west and the UN as well as the acceleration of bombing attacks some 30-fold by the Ukraine Army in the Donbass just days before the 2/24/22 Russian invasion. Increasingly is evidence emerging that what was presented as an unprovoked invasion by Russia of Ukraine was in fact provoked by Ukraine with the full backing of the US?

Please join us in our honest pursuit to get at the truth.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/2/2022 [email protected]

A Systemic Racism Primer Pt II on or about the 157th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Assassination; Plus an Important 4/23/22 Ukraine-NATO-Russia War Update

In part II of this Systemic Racism Primer presentation we document how racial differences in income and education are important disparities but institutional racism adds much more damage to the psychological and physical health of African Americans. In addition to the quality of life deficits that arguably constitute a second class standard of living for most African Americans even those with similar education and financial standings live shorter lives.

The science based concept of ‘weathering’ is documented to help explain some of the hidden features of the oppression of systemic racism that African American population endure in a cumulative manner throughout their lifetime that results in increased susceptibility to a large number of diseases and in considerably less life expectancy here in the 21st century.

We replay a fascinating speech by Dr David R Williams in which he describes how through science ‘racism’ can be measured and quantified just as self esteem can. He shares three scales he developed including the Everyday Discrimination Scale, that captures nine items that captures experiences of discrimination in which the dignity and the respect of second class citizens is chipped away on a daily basis. He goes on to highlight how through language implicit bias is sown resulting in unconscious bias which foments unfair treatment of African Americans even by well-intentioned persons, and how medical care iniquities and other forms of iniquities are generated by institutional biases such as residential segregation.

We conclude the show with an important update on the unfolding events in the Ukraine and the pending Russian offensive in southeastern Ukraine with geopolitical expert and investigative journalist Mike Whitney.

Don’t Be Late! and siempre fieles, Pgatos 4/25/2022 [email protected]