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The United Nations promised international cooperation on eliminating the major threats to peace and security and the most serious impediments to the protection of human rights and human dignity. Sixty years after the UN officially came into existence, 24 October 1945, the trail is one of broken promises. While important successes have marked some of its paths, the international machine has been hijacked and manipulated to subvert the very causes it was intended to promote. Most importantly, the UN serves as a tool to mask the intentions and the delicts of the anti-democratic forces which threaten civilization today. Even the root principles of its post-Holocaust foundations are inverted as the organization has become the largest global purveyor of modern forms of anti-semitism in the 21st century, in contrast to the Charter's "equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small." A number of factors have forced UN reform to move much higher up on the global agenda than ever before: the exposure of the billion-dollar UN-run Oil-for-food scam, peacekeeper-rapists, and paralysis in the face of genocide in Sudan.However, in an environment where there is little, if any, consensus on the most critical issues of our time, the real game is one of finger-pointing. The favorite scapegoat used to be America's former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. Undoubtedly, the "blame America first" will continue, but the record tells a different story.
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