{"id":340098,"date":"2017-12-18T23:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-north-korea-iran-some-facts-and-the-instinct-to-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-12-18T23:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:42:47","slug":"trump-north-korea-iran-some-facts-and-the-instinct-to-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-north-korea-iran-some-facts-and-the-instinct-to-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, North Korea, Iran: Some Facts and \u201cthe instinct to attack\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mahatma Gandi, 1869-1948<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the UN was established on 24th October 1945, little over five months after the end of World War 11, the organization\u2019s stated aims were to prevent further devastating conflicts. In spite of the fact that 193 out of the world\u2019s 195 nations are Member States, it has failed woefully.<\/p>\n<p>The US alone has been <a href=\"https:\/\/williamblum.org\/essays\/read\/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list\">involved<\/a>, since the UN\u2019s founding, in fifty-seven overt murderous meddlings, government overthrows, bloody invasions and\/or occupations. One article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii\/5492051\">estimates<\/a> that the US \u2013 supremely ironically base of the UN\u2019s great Headquarters \u2013 \u201cmost likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The writer asks: \u201cHow many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?\u201d He answers himself: \u201cPossibly 10,000.\u201d It is surely a reflection of desperation for peace and disgust at where humanity is being led, that the meticulously researched piece was shared over seventy seven thousand times on the one quoted site alone.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder the US government is so keen to crush and corral the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, addressing the UN General Assembly on the 19th September, made it chillingly clear that if he has his way he is headed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/12\/trump-north-korea-iran-some-facts-and-the-instinct-to-attack\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? \u2014 Mahatma Gandi, 1869-1948 When the UN was established on 24th October 1945, little over five months after the end of World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}