"The defiant UN starts fightback"

[McKenzie]

Difficult to tell exactly what is happening in gepolitics; spin, half-truths, media bias and so on all throw up a fog. However, there are subtle signs that nations are forming alliances to counter the neocon world view. The recent announcement of joint Chinese-Russian military exercises, China's recent trade deal with Venezuela, co-operation with Iran over satellite launches to name but three such developments. Now it seems the UN has sniffed the wind and sussed that the climate is right to reinvigorate itself.

Maybe, just maybe, the world is waking up to the danger posed by the current US administration and the UN feels it can capitalise on the disaffection.

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It is a sign of the frustration of the UN's right-wing critics that their best response to the investigation is to suggest that, as a supporter of the UN's humanitarian goals through America's UN Association, Volcker is tarnished. Instead, the ongoing UN investigation - despite five separate congressional probes - seems to have given it a bullish new confidence.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1406862,00.html