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Alfred de Zayas: Building a Just International World Order

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Geopolitics & Empire

News, Politics, Government, History

4.2570 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Former UN Independent Expert and Rapporteur Dr. Alfred de Zayas discusses his new book “Building a Just World Order” which outlines 25 principles of international order. We look at the undue influence of the CFR, WEF, Bilderberg, and Trilateral Commission in attempting to promote world government outside the UN context. He examines American exceptionalism, the Summit for Democracy, and what true democracy means. He believes only 20% of UN rapporteurs are truly independent while the rest are careerists who tout the status quo. He applauds the work of rapporteur Nilz Melser, discusses the growing trend of authoritarian techno-Orwellianism, and what the Assange case means for us all. He believes the U.S. doesn’t really want to try Assange and rather wants him dead like Epstein. He also describes the corruption in the Humans Rights industry which will be the subject of his forthcoming book. We cover AMLO’s push to create a Latin American EU, undue influences in the WHO, and the false accusations of Chinese genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

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Show Notes

BOOK >>> Building a Just World Order (Clarity Press) https://www.claritypress.com/book-author/alfred-de-zayas

Websites

Website https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com
Website http://alfreddezayas.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/alfreddezayas
OHCHR Bio http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/AlfredDeZayas.aspx

About Alfred de Zayas

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas studied history and law at Harvard, where he obtained his J.D. He practiced corporate law with the New York law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett and is a retired member of the New York and Florida Bar. He obtained a doctorate in history for the University of Göttingen in Germany.

Mr. de Zayas has been visiting professor of law at numerous universities including the University of British Columbia in Canada, the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva, the DePaul University Law School (Chicago), the Human Rights Institute at the Irish National University (Galway)and the University of Trier (Germany). At present he teaches international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

In 2009 de Zayas was a member of the UN workshop that drafted a report on the human right to peace, which was subsequently discussed and further elaborated by the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council. He is also a signatory of the Declaración de Bilbao and Declaración de Santiago de Compostela on the Human Right to Peace. He served as a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue of mercenaries. De Zayas is an expert for civil and political rights and has published nine books on a variety of legal and historical issues, including “United Nations Human Rights Committee Case Law” (together with Jakob th. Möller, N.P. Engel 2009), and has been co-author and co-editor of numerous other books, including “International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms” (together with Gudmundur Alfredsson and Bertrand Ramcharan). His scholarly articles in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights and Macmillan Encyclopedia of Genocide, encompass the prohibition of aggression, universal jurisdiction, the right to the homeland, mass population transfers, minority rights, refugee law, repatriation, legal aspects of the Spanish Civil War, indefinite detention, Guantanamo and the right to peace. He is fluent in six languages and has published a book of Rilke translations with commentary (“Larenopfer”, Red Hen Press 2008) and is completing the translation of Hermann Hesse’s “Das Lied des Lebens”.

From 2002-2006 he was Secretary-General, from 2006-2010 President of PEN International, Centre Suisse romand. He was member of several advisory boards, including of the International Society of Human Rights (Frankfurt a.M.), Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen (Berlin), the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (Canada) and of the conseil scientifique of the Académie International de droit constitutionnel (Tunis). He has received several awards, most recently the “Educators Award 2011” of Canadians for Genocide Education.

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The Geopolitics and Empire Podcast is joined once again by my dear and former professor from

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my alma mater, the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

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He's a former senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,

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former UN independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order,

0:17.6

and much more, his new book is building a just world order from

0:22.4

Clarity Press, which I just finished reading and is very good. It's good to see you again. Professor

0:28.1

Desaias, how is Geneva? Well, Geneva is cloudy, foggy. My wife today, she just came back.

0:38.6

She was racketing in the mountains in the snow.

0:42.9

She sent me photos to make me envious.

0:46.3

Up in the mountains is just gorgeous, blue sky and sunny.

0:51.7

But here in Geneva is clammy is two degrees and you know feels like minus two

1:01.2

in any event we are preparing for the fourth advent and as I said have a concert tonight and I have another concert on Sunday and still two

1:17.9

rehearsals before the final. As a case may be, yes, I'm glad you mentioned my book because it is

1:27.1

gradually getting reviews and I'm hoping that the 25 principles of international order that I formulate, that they will be taken seriously, at least by some politicians and some senators and some parliamentarians.

1:45.0

And not only in the United States, I mean, I would very much welcome

1:51.0

AMLO, Lopez Obrador.

1:54.0

It would be great if Lopez Obrador were to get a copy of the book and some of his assistants would read it and

2:05.5

do him a executive summary and how to use it because I think the 25 principles of international

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order could be used by many heads of state. I did have a question about Amlo as well, and hopefully we can get to it.

2:24.3

And so let's get into your book and look at some of the troubles of our time.

2:29.3

In a recent interview, you said that you think many UN agencies are doing a good job.

2:33.3

And in your book, you say that it is difficult UN agencies are doing a good job. And in your book,

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