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Facts about US - Rogue
Nation
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/21duboff.cfm
1.
In December 2001, the United States officially withdrew from the
1972
Antiballistic Missile Treaty, gutting the landmark agreement-the
first time
in the nuclear era that the US renounced a major arms
control
accord.
2. 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention ratified by 144
nations
including the United States. In July 2001 the US walked out of a
London
conference to discuss a 1994 protocol designed to strengthen
the
Convention by providing for on-site inspections. At Geneva in
November
2001, US Undersecretary of State John Bolton stated that "the
protocol
is dead," at the same time accusing Iraq, Iran, North Korea,
Libya,
Sudan, and Syria of violating the Convention but offering no
specific
allegations or supporting evidence.
3. UN Agreement to Curb
the International Flow of Illicit Small Arms,
July 2001: the US was the only
nation to oppose it.
4. April 2001, the US was not reelected to the UN
Human Rights
Commission, after years of withholding dues to the UN
(including
current dues of $244 million)-and after having forced the UN to
lower
its share of the UN budget from 25 to 22 percent. (In the Human
Rights
Commission, the US stood virtually alone in opposing
resolutions
supporting lower-cost access to HIV/AIDS drugs, acknowledging a
basic
human right to adequate food, and calling for a moratorium on the
death
penalty.)
5. International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, to be
set up in The Hague
to try political leaders and military personnel charged
with war crimes
and crimes against humanity. Signed in Rome in July 1998, the
Treaty
was approved by 120 countries, with 7 opposed (including the
US).
In October 2001 Great Britain became the 42nd nation to sign.
In
December 2001 the US Senate again added an amendment to a
military
appropriations bill that would keep US military personnel from
obeying
the jurisdiction of the proposed ICC.
6. Land Mine Treaty,
banning land mines; signed in Ottawa in December
1997 by 122 nations. The
United States refused to sign, along with
Russia, China, India, Pakistan,
Iran, Iraq, Vietnam, Egypt, and Turkey.
President Clinton rejected the
Treaty, claiming that mines were needed
to protect South Korea against North
Korea's "overwhelming military
advantage." He stated that the US would
"eventually" comply, in 2006;
this was disavowed by President Bush in August
2001.
7. Kyoto Protocol of 1997, for controlling global warming:
declared
"dead" by President Bush in March 2001. In November 2001, the
Bush
administration shunned negotiations in Marrakech (Morocco) to
revise
the accord, mainly by watering it down in a vain attempt to gain
US
approval.
8. In May 2001, refused to meet with European Union
nations to discuss,
even at lower levels of government, economic espionage
and electronic
surveillance of phone calls, e-mail, and faxes (the US
"Echelon"
program),
9. Refused to participate in Organization for
Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD)-sponsored talks in Paris, May
2001, on ways to crack
down on off-shore and other tax and money-laundering
havens.
10. Refused to join 123 nations pledged to ban the use and
production
of anti-personnel bombs and mines, February 2001
11.
September 2001: withdrew from International Conference on Racism,
bringing
together 163 countries in Durban, South Africa
12. International Plan for
Cleaner Energy: G-8 group of industrial
nations (US, Canada, Japan, Russia,
Germany, France, Italy, UK), July
2001: the US was the only one to oppose
it.
13. Enforcing an illegal boycott of Cuba, now being made tighter.
In
the UN in October 2001, the General Assembly passed a resolution,
for
the tenth consecutive year, calling for an end to the US embargo, by
a
vote of 167 to 3 (the US, Israel, and the Marshall Islands
in
opposition).
14. Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty. Signed by
164 nations and
ratified by 89 including France, Great Britain, and Russia;
signed by
President Clinton in 1996 but rejected by the Senate in 1999. The
US is
one of 13 nonratifiers among countries that have nuclear weapons
or
nuclear power programs. In November 2001, the US forced a vote in
the
UN Committee on Disarmament and Security to demonstrate its
opposition
to the Test Ban Treaty.
15. In 1986 the International Court
of Justice (The Hague) ruled that
the US was in violation of international
law for "unlawful use of
force" in Nicaragua, through its actions and those
of its Contra proxy
army. The US refused to recognize the Court's
jurisdiction. A UN
resolution calling for compliance with the Court's
decision was
approved 94-2 (US and Israel voting no).
16. In 1984 the
US quit UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization) and
ceased its payments for UNESCO's budget, over the New
World Information and
Communication Order (NWICO) project designed to
lessen world media dependence
on the "big four" wire agencies (AP, UPI,
Agence France-Presse,
Reuters).
The US charged UNESCO with "curtailment of press freedom," as
well as
mismanagement and other faults, despite a 148-1 in vote in favor
of
NWICO in the UN. UNESCO terminated NWICO in 1989; the US
nonetheless
refused to rejoin. In 1995 the Clinton administration
proposed
rejoining; the move was blocked in Congress and Clinton did not
press
the issue. In February 2000 the US finally paid some of its arrears
to
the UN but excluded UNESCO, which the US has not rejoined.
17.
Optional Protocol, 1989, to the UN's International Covenant on
Civil and
Political Rights, aimed at abolition of the death penalty and
containing a
provision banning the execution of those under 18. The US
has neither signed
nor ratified and specifically exempts itself from
the latter provision,
making it one of five countries that still
execute juveniles (with Saudi
Arabia, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Iran, Nigeria). China abolished the
practice in 1997, Pakistan in 2000.
18. 1979 UN Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women. The only countries
that have signed but
not ratified are the US, Afghanistan, Sao Tome and
Principe.
19. The US has signed but not ratified the 1989 UN Convention
on the
Rights of the Child, which protects the economic and social rights
of
children. The only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has
no
functioning government.
20. UN International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights,
1966, covering a wide range of rights and
monitored by the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The US
signed in 1977 but has not
ratified.
21. UN Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide, 1948. The US finally
ratified in 1988, adding several
"reservations" to the effect that the US
Constitution and the "advice
and consent" of the Senate are required to judge
whether any "acts in
the course of armed conflict" constitute genocide. The
reservations are
rejected by Britain, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain,
Greece,
Mexico, Estonia, and others.
22. Is the status of "we're
number one!" Rogue overcome by generous
foreign aid to given less fortunate
countries? The three best aid
providers, measured by the foreign aid
percentage of their gross
domestic products, are Denmark (1.01%), Norway
(0.91%), and the
Netherlands (0.79), The three worst: USA (0.10%), UK
(0.23%),
Australia, Portugal, and Austria (all
0.26).
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