WayneMadsenReport has reported on the policy of the neo-cons in the Bush administration to destroy the effectiveness and influence of the United Nations. America's unconfirmed ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, his staff, working together with Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman and his staff, have instituted a climate of fear among UN staff, diplomatic missions, and media. WMR has now learned that a similar situation exists at the Commonwealth headquarters in London. The motive of British neo-cons is to weaken the Commonwealth of Nations, the last vestige of the British Empire, thus depriving the British monarchy of a major raison d'etre and dealing another blow to Prince Charles, a bitter foe of Tony Blair and his neo-con "New Labor" policies.
The Commonwealth Secretary General, Don McKinnon of New Zealand, a London-born New Zealander and member of the right-wing National Party under which he served as Defense Minister and Foreign Minister, was singled out for criticism in a May 31 report by a Commonwealth Investigative Panel headed up by Glenda Morean Philip, Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the UK. The report stated that there is a "climate of fear in the Commonwealth Secretariat" and that people will not speak out because of a "fear of retribution." The language used in the Commonwealth report is similar to the words spoken on strict background by employees of the United Nations, U.S. Defense Department, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, State Department, and other international organizations and government departments.
Under neo-con Don McKinnon, Commonwealth turned into a "Yes Massa" club doing the bidding of the English-speaking white countries and their corporations and bankers.
The Commonwealth is composed of 53 member states that are mostly former British colonies in Africa and the Caribbean. The organization is headquartered in Marlborough House in Pall Mall in central London and the head of the Commonwealth is Queen Elizabeth. The situation in the Commonwealth Secretariat worsened in 2002 when Zimbabwe had its membership suspended, largely as a result of pressure from the Bush and Blair administrations, which were attempting to oust Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. One of the harshest critics of the Commonwealth under McKinnon is Professor Victor O. Ayeni of Nigeria, the Commonwealth's director of the Governance and Institutional Development Division. Since Zimbabwe's suspension, a number of black African and Caribbean staff members have detected a strong whiff of racism in the air at the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth goes the way of the United Nations: Neo-cons are forcing a climate of fear and retribution -- "go along, get along, or be gone."
While the Commonwealth is used as an instrument to ensure the spread of neo-con policies in the English-speaking world, it is doing little to promote democracy. While kicking out Zimbabwe for its dictatorship, McKinnon has chosen Uganda as next year's site of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, thus rewarding that country's pro-American and pro-British dictator Yoweri Museveni. Museveni is a favorite of the neo-cons and their racialist philosophies, having once blamed Africans themselves for slavery.
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What is a "Neo-Con" to you? Seems to have a fairly flexible definition; or at least a flexible application.
An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s
U.S. political movement. It originated in the 1960s among conservatives and some liberals who were repelled by or disillusioned with what they viewed as the political and cultural trends of the time, including leftist political radicalism, lack of respect for authority and tradition, and hedonistic and immoral lifestyles. Neoconservatives generally advocate a free-market economy with minimum taxation and government economic regulation; strict limits on government-provided social-welfare programs; and a strong military supported by large defense budgets. Neoconservatives also believe that government policy should respect the importance of traditional institutions such as religion and the family. Unlike most conservatives of earlier generations, neoconservatives maintain that the United States should take an active role in world affairs, though they are generally suspicious of international institutions, such as the United Nations and the World Court, whose authority could intrude upon American sovereignty or limit the country's freedom to act in its own interests.
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