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The UN, on all fronts, is anti-American right down to its fiber, but we’ll start with the “the noise from down south.” Much of the anti-Americanism came from the small but pesky Latin American countries that have given way to a leftist government, with one lunatic after another in charge.

That noise was composed of the jacked rhetoric of overstimulated banana republic dictators and functioned not only as propaganda but as a diversion. The clownish leftist hyperbole drew the world’s attention away from the real power of that Latin American leftist bloc.

And the bloc, this coven of self-proclaimed enemies of the United States, found cohesion in the halls of the UN. As we’ll see, the Commie Cacophony reached painful decibels in one of the UN’s oldest groups: the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Attempt to Stifle the Press

Though the UNESCO’s stated purpose was to help developing nations with their education, society, and culture, their actual practices flew in the face of that raison d’etre.

During the early years of President Ronald Reagan’s administration, UNESCO tried to implement a plan that would require a license for all the world’s journalists—a license subject to revoke by some lording anti-American commission.

The notion, which carried the official title “New World Information and Communication Order,” called for a democratization of the world’s media and more egalitarian access to information.

The reality of the idea, however, drained the blood from the heads of those who believed in freedom of the press. Cloaked behind the fancy words was an attempt to create a global press through which Communist and Third World countries could air out their anti-American ramblings.

Brainchild of Communists

UNESCO was one of the UN’s oldest subsets, in fact it was almost as old as the UN itself. It was born on November 16, 1945, during the earliest days of the Cold War, the brainchild of communists like Alger Hiss.

UNESCO’s stated goals had initially to do with repairing the educational systems of war-torn nations. At one of the first UN meetings—when everything was still warm and fuzzy, propped up with the daydream of “world peace”—there were calls for a cultural and educational organization to embody a genuine culture of peace.

Holy MK-ULTRA!

MK-ULTRA was a CIA program’s code name for covert illegal human research, in other words: mind control, indoctrination, and brainwashing.

UNESCO was created to establish the “intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.” Its function was not only to fund educational programs around the world, buy books, and train teachers but to “build peace in the minds of men.”

Some background: At the time of its creation, UNESCO had thirty-seven Member States. The ill-fated League of Nations also had a suborganization dedicated to the intellectualizing of the world. It was called the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. Albert Einstein was a member.

Anti-American from the Start

The squawking from American leaders about UNESCO increased proportionately during the 1950s with America squawking about communism in general. It was a time of acute awareness and a time when the Red Menace was thought to be everywhere and artists were blackballed for being antifacsist. This too was a diversion, probably unintentional, that allowed the actual Red Menace to soak deeper into the American sponge.

In 1955 Lawrence Smith, a Wisconsin congressman, called UNESCO a “permanent international snake pit where Godless Communism is given a daily forum for hate, recrimination, psychological warfare against freedom, and unrelenting moral aggression against peace.”

So by the time we got to the part of history where banana republics were looking to solidify their common interests, this was not a case of an old friend who later stabbed us in the back. UNESCO was anti-American from the get-go.

Scientific World Humanism

The first director general appointed to UNESCO was Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous Huxley. He said in his acceptance speech, “The general philosophy of UNESCO should be a scientific world humanism, global in extent…It can stress the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world political organization…. Political unification in some sort of world government will be required to help the emergence of a single world culture.”

In other words, the UN was seeking to organize the world much as the Soviet Union had, at that time, organized Eastern Europe.

Reagan Pulls Out

In 1984, as president, Ronald Reagan cited blatant anti-Americanism and hostility to freedom for pulling the United States out of UNESCO. Another unspoken reason was that UNESCO’s budget was bloating at a fearsome rate, and Reagan, of course, was trying to cut spending.

A review to determine if the United States should rejoin UNESCO was conducted in 1990 by the State Department. The review concluded that the U.S. should remain out because the price tag for membership was too big considering the way UNESCO was known to mismanage their funds.

Abhorrent to the United States

Many causes the organization supported were abhorrent to the U.S. assistant secretary of state John R. Bolton—about whom you’ll be reading much more later—who agreed that the United States should stay out of UNESCO. It was the right thing to do, he said, noting that “little or no” reform had taken place since we withdrew and that giving UNESCO money would be foolish simply because of the poor choices they made when spending it.

The United States remained out of UNESCO until 2002 when George W. Bush put us back in. During the time the United States was out of UNESCO, no American dollars went to funding activities, which should have been okay because of the nature of those activities. Instead the United States now footed a quarter of the bill for everything UNESCO did.

Anti-American Award Show

Among the activities subsidized with United States funds was the presentation in Havana by Castro of the Jose Marti International Prize, named after a Cuban war hero who’d been killed fighting for independence from Spain. It was awarded every second year in an attempt to “promote and reward an activity of outstanding merit in accordance with the ideas and spirit of Cuban independence leader, thinker, and poet José Marti.”

The winner usually turned out to be an individual whose anti-American activities were considered beyond the call of duty. The first presentation marked the one hundredth anniversary of Marti’s death.

Castro awarded a bizarre sample of leaders, cronies, and lunatics. One year the prize went to Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, a Mexican socialist who was the former rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

In 2005, the winner was Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who was cited for his “contribution to Latin American and Caribbean unity and the preservation of the region’s culture and traditions.” One way he did this was by fighting American antidrug agents who sought to destroy his coca crop.

It was a big biannual to-do. Each time the award was presented, 200,000 people gathered in Havana’s Revolution Plaza to hear Castro and the recipient speak. Mostly Castro. The ceremony, hospitality, and even the afterparty went on the UN’s tab, with the United States paying a quarter on every buck.

So, if you remember nothing else about UNESCO, recall that they chose to finance an annual anti-American hullabaloo hosted by our archenemy, which was not just a great party but an opportunity for power-hungry anti-Americans to make friends, organize, and plot.

Why Did George W. Bush Reenter?

First Lady Laura Bush, during a visit to Paris, made the announcement that the United States was rejoining UNESCO. Mrs. Bush said that the United States promised to be a “full, active, and enthusiastic participant” in UNESCO.

The question remained, Why did Bush want to dive back into the pinko cesspool that was UNESCO? One educated guess is intelligence purposes. Why else use American tax dollars to finance an event that is intrinsically harmful to American interests?

If the move was to create an inside base for clandestine intelligence-gathering missions, that was one thing—and the result might have been worth the price of admission. The more common suspicion was that the United States rejoined UNESCO during the second Bush administration because it sought to answer back to critics of perceived American unilateralism.

If the United States wanted back inside UNESCO for intelligence purposes, did that mean an intelligence void was created by withdrawing from that organization for twenty years? Not necessarily.

Observer Staff

According to Nicholas Farnham writing for the Comparative Education Review in 1986, even after Reagan withdrew from UNESCO, the United States maintained an “observer staff” at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, which wasn’t much smaller than the staff that preceded it. The U.S. observer staff was one of three on hand from nonmembers during that time. The other two belonged to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Vatican.

UNESCO responded with weak comments to the legitimate criticisms coming out of the West. Concessions were always mealy and off point. Oh okay, perhaps UNESCO’s budget could be trimmed of fat here and there. Perhaps the number of divisions could be decreased to shrink ineffective and redundant efforts. But say something nice about the Free World? Wasn’t going to happen.

UNESCO did trim the fat. The organization reshuffled a tad. But as far as philosophy went, nothing changed. The UNESCO rejoined by Bush was very much in spirit like the one Reagan dumped.

UNESCO’s Inability to Change Its Stripes

In 2009 UNESCO demonstrated that its self-image had not changed much, as it described itself as a “standard setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues as a clearinghouse for the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge while helping Member States to build their human and institutional capacities in diverse fields.”

The organization, it said, was to halve the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015, achieve universal primary education in all countries, and implement a global initiative to preserve and protect environmental resources.

As of 2010 UNESCO had 193 Member States and 7 associate members. Headquarters was still in Paris but there were a handful of regional field offices and many regional offices around the world. And it still financed the propaganda efforts of an increasingly cohesive Latin American bloc.

Axis of the South

By 2006 Americans were focused on the War on Terrorism, basically the battle to prevent terrorists representing radical Islam from attacking the United States or its interests.

But the nations of Islam were not alone in their anti-Americanism. There was also an “Axis of the South”—a group of small Latin American countries, some of them with drug-reliant economies. The UN, of course, has given that axis an open forum to speak its collective anti-American, hatemongering mind.

The Islamic bloc and the Latin American bloc believed that any enemy of their enemy was a friend. They’d learned to hang together during UN votes, so as to maximize their anti-American influence.

Just more proof that, as of the twenty-first century, the UN was intrinsically anti-American. How else do you explain the granting of a forum during the annual meeting of the General Assembly to Hugo Chavez, who for years has been doing everything he could to disrupt U.S. attempts to halt the northerly flow of cocaine from Venezuela.

Chavez had Oil and Drugs at his back—and he was a powerful man. They say all the world’s power revolves around G.O.D., that is, gold, oil, and drugs. Chavez had two out of three, one of the reasons he was so secure, even when standing before the world and calling the leader of the Free World “the Devil.” In the twenty-first century, the commodities that the world’s power revolve around should be spelled G.O.D.A. A fourth item, the atom, needs to be added. The atom is only truly powerful when in the hands of someone willing to use it—use it as Truman had used it—to bring the wrath of God down on an enemy and not necessarily in retaliation for a blow in kind, but rather because it brings sudden victory.

The Drug Trade Half Trillion

Next to the illegal-arms industry, the drug trade is the largest illegal industry in the world. More than a half a trillion dollars are spent on drugs each year. The profits end up in the pockets of a few drug barons, and any representative of that country strolling UN halls answers to them. Most of the people depend on the drug trade for the food they eat and the shelter over their heads. The country of Peru, for example, earns a half billion dollars a year in drug profits.

Because of their enormous wealth, the barons are among the world’s most powerful people, controlling the government of the country they live in. They bribe politicians and judges so that they can operate unhindered by law enforcement.

Dangerous Business

Manuel de Dios Unanue from New York City was a journalist who liked tough subjects, and wrote a series of articles about the methods of one baron’s “Cali Cartel” in 1992. Soon thereafter he was shot dead inside a New York City restaurant.

Besides the threat of retaliatory murder, another difficulty U.S. agents had in attacking the drug barons came in the form of resistance from the highest levels, which brings us back to Hugo Chavez. In August 2005, he called the United States hypocritical when it came to the War on Drugs and said American agents were in the country not to stop drug trafficking but to spy.

The United States, he pointed out, was the world’s largest consumer of drugs, and yet it did little to reduce the number of drug users inside America. While DEA and FBI agents were busy in Venezuela, he noted that they ignored the drug barons who were living inside the United States.

Clearly, the president did not have the right attitude to maximize the war on drugs within his country. Criticisms of Chavez’s words were few from official U.S. sources. Remember, he had coke and oil at his back. Venezuela was a major supplier of oil to the United States.

Chavez’s job when he came to New York in 2006 was to make George W. Bush look bad in the eyes of the world. But there was a flaw in the plan. Trouble was the world was a sophisticated place and Chavez was not a sophisticated man.

Chavez Calls Bush the D-Word

Famously, Chavez called Bush “the Devil” at the UN in September 2006. The name calling said more about Chavez than Bush. Chavez’s insults to Bush were sometimes personal and below the belt. During another speech that week in New York, he called Bush “an alcoholic and a sick man.”

Any political advantage Chavez and his anti-American allies might have sought backfired as even Bush’s political enemies at home fought to be first to condemn the Venezuelan lunatic.

For example, Charles Rangel, a Democrat from New York, said, “Even though many American people are critical of our president, we resent the fact that he would come to the United States and criticize President Bush.”

Raucous Carnivals, Shrill Displays

Chavez wasn’t the only anti-American lunatic to speak before the 2006 General Assembly. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran also spoke, using the opportunity once again to call the Holocaust a hoax and to assail the “hegemonic powers for their exclusionist policies on international decision-making mechanisms, including the Security Council.”

David Usbourne wrote in a British periodical that lunatic dictators “hijacked [2006’s] UN General Assembly and turned it into a raucous carnival of anti-Americanism. It perhaps will not hurt Mr. Bush’s domestic standing, but for American diplomacy abroad it was, at the very least, unsettling.”

About the UN-sponsored hatemongering, Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation added, “It has been one of the shrillest displays of anti-Americanism in recent years. This is a huge public diplomacy challenge, but also a strategic threat.” Gardiner said the Chavez Devil quote was “the strongest attack from any foreign leader on U.S. soil in decades.”

Ducks in a Row

In the days before the 2006 General Assembly convened, the axis of the South could be heard getting its anti-American ducks in a row. The so-called Non-Aligned Movement met in Havana, Cuba, where Cuba’s vice president, Carlos Lage Dávila criticized “the worldwide dictatorship by the United States.”

One thing crystallized during those days: America’s enemies didn’t always have a lot in common—Venezuela and Cuba were very different places from Iran and Yemen—but their common hatred proved to be a strong bond.

World leaders previously reluctant to speak up on anti-American, anti-Western issues were emboldened by the tone of the 2006 meetings. President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, a man who might have previously held his tongue, freely spoke against UN efforts to deploy a blue-helmet peacekeeping force in Darfur.

Evo Morales of Bolivia joined the fray and Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan created an anti-American stir when he announced that “the United States threatened to bomb his country into the Stone Age” if he did not join the war against terror.

Coca Kooks and Shoe Bangers

There were incidents during the UN meetings that reminded historians of the infamous scene during the height of the Cold War when Soviet Union premier Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on a table as a form of anti-American protest.

Forty-five years later, a Bolivian leader used a coca leaf as a visual aid, waving it angrily as he spoke about U.S. attempts to destroy Bolivian coca crops.

Chavez was relentlessly ambitious and had a history of using the UN to boost his own power. He used the organization as a tool by which to move his wild South American chess pieces closer to endgame and the toppling of the Stars and Stripes. In 2006 Chavez also came with props, waving an anti-American book as he spoke, recommending that everyone read it.

Attempts to undermine Bush’s support inside the United States might have fallen on deaf ears, but these dictators with their crude comments did successfully malign the Security Council as a “relic” of World War II, composed of nations that felt “entitled to world dictatorship.”

Plans in Haiti

In 2010 Chavez still had a big mouth and was quick with the verbal barb at his enemies, but had he lost his hunger for power? Was he now content to be baron number one in Venezuela?

There was a clear indication that the answer was no. In the days following the deadly earthquake that tore apart Haiti, even as death estimates ran in the hundreds of thousands, Chavez was already spinning the story to his benefit, with an eye toward increased leftist power in Haiti.

The earthquake had caused a power vacuum—one the socialists, the UN, and the U.S. military were all eager to fill. Chavez used his own Venezuelan TV show, called Hello, President to launch his leftist scheme.

Chavez told his people that Venezuela was a country with a large heart and—with Haitians in trouble—wanted to help in any way it could. But that large-hearted effort was being stifled, stymied, and thwarted by the Americans who got there first. The Yankees, as he called them, had clogged up all of Haiti’s ports so that Venezuelan ships, crammed to the brim with relief aid, were not being allowed to dock so they could not unload. It was an example of a typical American power grab, he exclaimed.

But the intrepid Venezuelan humanitarian effort did not give up easily. The ships simply moved to a Dominican Republic port where they were allowed to dock. From there the food and medicine were transported over the land to the Haitian disaster area.

He said that he had great plans for the rebuilding of Haiti. He personally planned to take a leadership role in making Haiti a thriving place. He would team up with Cuba and all the other like-minded governments in the region to build hospitals and schools in Haiti and set up agricultural programs. He was a progressive thinker. He wanted the world to know that and sought to perpetuate the humanitarian effort by installing a system through which Haitians could feed themselves forever.

The left-leaning leaders of Latin America were working with a regional trade group called the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) to fix Haiti. ALBA was looking for contributions, Chavez noted.

Before finishing his little chat with the nation, Chavez got in one last slam at the Yankees, claiming that the Pentagon was using the earthquake as an excuse to occupy Haiti. He called the disaster area a “battlefield.” Chavez promised he would not allow “the gringo empire to take over Haiti.”

Most of this was a crock, although it was confirmed that Venezuela did contribute some food and oil to Haiti. Chavez hungered for power, there could be no question about that, but the sort of power he sought needed a bite that an appearance on the Hello, President TV show couldn’t muster. He knew that, even with the UN on his side, he’d been rendered weak in Haiti, and he wanted to make sure his people knew that he was still a strong man and that they should never forget who the good guys and the bad guys were.