Aaron Kliegman
As the United Nations marks its 75th anniversary this week, it’s worth recalling the organization’s purpose. For those who don’t remember, it’s spelled out in the first words of the UN Charter:
“We the people of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.”
In short, the UN was created to prevent World War III. Too many people wrongly think the UN has succeeded.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is a moderate, someone with a practical, bipartisan approach to politics. At least that’s what the media tells us.
This is what Klobuchar thinks about the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Trump’s intent to replace Ginsburg on the Supreme Court: “Literally, our democracy is at stake.”
In other words, the American experiment in self-government is on the brink of collapse. How our republic, the strongest and wealthiest country in history, was only being held up by a single 87-year-old woman, Klobuchar does not say.
Marxists had a problem: The working classes were a constant disappointment, never revolting how they were supposed to. In fact, the capitalist West was spreading rather than imploding. Maybe the proletariat never got the memo. Or maybe workers decided they liked money — and not capping human potential. Whatever the reason, history proved Marx wrong.
Therefore, those who sought the West’s decline had to look elsewhere: to culture, not economics. The result was cultural Marxism.
In July, Germany’s minister for economic affairs made a revealing comment. When asked about Berlin’s refusal to adopt a tougher policy toward China to defend human rights, Peter Altmaier said that applying more pressure would threaten his country’s economic interests.
“We have trade relations with many regions across the globe, including in many cases countries that have a different understanding of civil rights than we have in Germany,” Altmaier told Politico. “I have always been convinced and I still believe that change can be achieved through trade.”
Hitler may have been insane (at least strategically), but even he could be deterred. And indeed, he was, for a brief, instructive moment.
The year was 1934. Hitler had been chancellor of Germany for 18 months and coveted Austria, his birthplace. So, the Nazi Party instigated a putsch to annex the land.
Nazis assassinated the Austrian chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, attempting to seize power. In total, they killed more than 100 people and injured several hundred others.
One of the great tragedies of our time is that universities have become places to close minds, not to open them. Indeed, activism — specifically left-wing activism, in service of social justice — has replaced teaching and learning on most American campuses.
Students still learn, to be sure, but what they learn is information imparted by professors and administrators to pursue a particular agenda, not information to understand the world around them as it is.
Are we any different than our forebears who lived 50, 500, even 5,000 years ago?
“Of course!” say the rioters terrorizing American communities, from Portland, Ore. to Kenosha, Wisc. “We’re far superior to those racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, colonialist bigots.”
Hence the toppling of statues and the desecration of monuments.
But the woke mob is not alone — and has support in high places.
Democrats are in trouble, and they know it.
For months, Democrats and their allies in the media have been encouraging the riots in Portland, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Those who didn’t support the mayhem simply ignored the violence, refusing to condemn it.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) called for “unrest in the streets.” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) refused to condemn Antifa. Media outlets stretched the rules of syntax to their limit to avoid reporting on the arson, looting, and assault that has been so obvious.
Years from now, when all the requisite intelligence is declassified, someone will be able to write quite the book or movie about Yossi Cohen.
As the head of Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, Cohen has been busy, negotiating a diplomatic breakthrough with the UAE and masterminding the heist of some 100,000 Iranian files from a secret warehouse in Tehran.
No one knows more about what’s happening in the Middle East behind closed doors and around dark corners than Israel’s spymaster. When he speaks, we should listen.
Forget Vladimir Putin: To the American political left, Benjamin Netanyahu is public enemy No. 2, trailing only a certain billionaire from Queens.
Indeed, Democrats and progressives view Israel’s right-wing prime minister as a corrupt and racist authoritarian who is destroying liberal democracy.
This antipathy led many left-wing Americans, even Democratic presidential candidates, to campaign against Netanyahu before Israel’s parliamentary elections last April.
