UN prostitutes itself to dictators looking to end western sanctions

The United Nations General Assembly has barely paid attention to the war in Sudan — despite 150,000 killed, 15-million displaced and 25-million hungry — yet on Dec. 4, delegates are convening to inaugurate the “International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures,” which is UN-speak for condemning western sanctions on the world’s worst dictatorships.

Sponsored by a rogues gallery that includes China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, the UN’s new dystopian holiday is the culmination of a decade of propaganda at the world body.

In a bid to flip the script, authoritarian regimes have hijacked UN discussions on human rights with incessant speeches pointing to western sanctions — imposed in response to their gross abuses — as the root of all evil.

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