May I add a couple, Gerald. Philip Giraldi and Mike Whitney are very analytical writers who provide data from detailed research. Just once weekly, but detailed under the UNZ Report.

The greatest disillusionment for me, still rests with the failure of all Western (white) governments to attribute any crime to Netanyahu’s Israel. My own country included. The reasons for the support for Israel from Germany, France, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK, all seemingly suffering from an expanded desire to become even more rightwing than in the past, has continued to perplex me as it has so many others. How can they continue to ignore the crimes of the century? How can they also continue to fail to pass any of the responsibility for blatant ethnic cleansing of Palestine into the major discussion point at the United Nations?

The United Nations and its voting system was set up at the end of World War II by the victorious nations from that conflict. There is, perhaps, an argument to modify the United Nations voting system and make it more representative of the modern world. But there does not appear to be any move along these lines. It makes the UN as it is presently structured and almost useless structure. Its actions against the present ethnic cleansing in Palestine have achieve nothing, nor have their lack of action contributed to the saving of a single life.

Even with its faults, the United Nations is not a few people in an office – it is seen as the world community. It is the rest of the world – the 94% of the world’s population that is not from the USA. By damning and ignoring the United Nations, the USA is snubbing the majority of the world’s population. This will not make the USA more popular around the world.

As one commentator on American baseball in the UK noted: “Only the USA could have a World Series and not invite the rest of the world”. Now that is surely the political equivalent in the United Nations today.

We are all aware of the now feeble nature of the UN and the almost absolute control generated through the use of the US Veto in the Security Council.

The UN is well past its use-by-date.