{"id":327559,"date":"2017-09-24T21:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sigmar-gabriels-un-address-german-great-power-ambitions-in-pacifist-garb\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T21:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:53:50","slug":"sigmar-gabriels-un-address-german-great-power-ambitions-in-pacifist-garb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/sigmar-gabriels-un-address-german-great-power-ambitions-in-pacifist-garb\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigmar Gabriel\u2019s UN address: German great power ambitions in pacifist garb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Sigmar Gabriel\u2019s UN address: German great power ambitions in pacifist garb<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Johannes Stern<br \/>\n    <br \/>23 September 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel underscored Germany\u2019s claim to great power status in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, just days prior to Sunday\u2019s federal election. After a flood of pacifist phrases, he concluded his remarks with an explicit call for greater German \u201cresponsibility\u201d in world affairs, including a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLadies and gentlemen, Germany is ready to assume additional responsibility,\u201d he declared to his international audience. \u201cThis is why my country is applying for a seat on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2019 to 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany, he added, has \u201ca clear course. Peace and security, global justice and human rights are inseparably bound together.\u201d Germany wants \u201cto cooperate in partnership with all members of the United Nations\u2014in Africa, Asia, America and Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phrases about \u201cpeace,\u201d \u201chuman rights\u201d and \u201cglobal justice\u201d are rhetorical window dressing for Germany\u2019s renewed turn to imperialist \u201cRealpolitik.\u201d Unlike the 1930s, when the German Reich left the League of Nations to rearm and prepare for war, today Berlin seeks to pursue its global imperialist ambitions within existing international organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as then, Germany identifies the United States as its chief rival. Gabriel did not once refer to US President Donald Trump. But his speech was a clear rejection of Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d strategy, to which Gabriel counterposes an ostensibly more \u201cpeaceful\u201d German policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf one looks around the world,\u201d Gabriel declared, \u201cit appears as though a world outlook has imposed itself that considers one\u2019s own&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/23\/gabr-s23.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sigmar Gabriel\u2019s UN address: German great power ambitions in pacifist garb By Johannes Stern 23 September 2017 Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel underscored Germany\u2019s claim to great power status in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, just days prior to Sunday\u2019s federal election. After a flood of pacifist phrases, he concluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}