Perpetual War -- Unending Terror.

A photographic history of the United Nations 

The United Nations, we have been told, is the world's "last, best hope for peace." Peaceful resolution of conflicts and harmony among nations are noble aspirations shared by all decent people. The UN, though, has been an utter failure as a vehicle to bring about world peace. Hundreds of wars have afflicted humanity since the world body's founding in 1945. Inter-state warfare, guerrilla insurrections, and terrorism continue to claim their bloody toll: Civilian casualties; hideous atrocities; and even genocides. Nevertheless, the UN persists in its claim to represent a world in which humanity is spared "the scourge of war."

As the following overview will illustrate, the goal of the UN is not peace, but rather the creation of an international socialist regime. To achieve this goal, the UN and its supporters work tirelessly under the banner of world peace to equip the world body with totalitarian powers. As you will see, this will not pave the way for a peaceful world, but only allow for more violence, more terror, and more oppression.

The first attempt to create an international body based on the principle of "collective Security' came in the aftermath of World War I. President Woodrow Wilson (center) championed the creation of the League of Nations. But as political cartoons of the era indicate (top left/top right), America was not yet ready to abandon its sovereignty and destroy the Constitution -- which was the asking price of "global peace" under the League. The failure of the internationalist principle to prevent World War II demonstrated the inherent flaw of the "collective security" concept. But as World War II drew to a close and a victorious America celebrated the defeat of the totalitarian Axis powers, a war-weary public was receptive to the promise of "global peace" put forth by the newly formed United Nations Organization. The UN's founding conference in San Francisco (far right) laid the foundation for a global body that could enforce the principles of international socialism in the name of "peace." As America signed on the do tted line (right), a key architect of the UN stood in the background -- State Department official Alger Hiss, who was secretary-general of the UN's founding conference and a co-author of the UN Charter. It was later revealed that Hiss was a traitor -- an agent in the employ of the totalitarian Soviet regime.

The "Cold War' between the capitalist West and the Communist Soviet Bloc dominated the early decades of the UN. Communist powers such as Soviet Russia, China, and Cuba exported revolution and expanded their domination over satellite nations without opposition from the UN. In fact, the UN General Assembly readily extended membership to Soviet-dominated puppet states, and the General Assembly hall resounded with support for Communist insurgencies worldwide. Former UN Secretary-General U Thant praised founding Soviet dictator V.I. Lenin in 1970, saying that Lenin's "ideals of peace and peaceful coexistence ... are in line with the aims of the UN charter." Lenin's concept of "peace" was world socialism, secured through terror and subversion.

Lenin's successor, Josef Stalin (top left), who hailed the UN as "a serious instrument for preservation of peace and international security," ruled a criminal state that killed tens of millions of its subjects and imprisoned tens of millions more in the gulag prison camp system. Millions of Chinese were slaughtered by the Communist regime headed by Mao Tse-tung (top center). Like every Communist dictatorship, Mao's regime eliminated political opposition by publicly torturing and executing civilian dissidents (bottom right). In 1971, the UN General Assembly evicted the government of Free China from its ranks, replacing it with a delegate from Mao's regime. Pro-Communist UN delegates cheered as the Free Chinese delegate was ushered out of General Assembly Hall.

Yuri Andropov (top right), longtime head of the Soviet KGB, the world's most ruthless secret police agency, found that the United Nations offered an ideal staging base for Soviet espionage, subversion, and terrorism. By the early 1980s, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Charles Lichenstein warned Congress that the world body's New York Headquarters had become a "sanctuary" for Soviet-bloc spies, with an estimated 800 to 1,200 Communist and client-state nationals actively engaged in espionage against America. As intelligence specialists Ray S. Cline and Yonah Alexander document in their book Terrorism as State-Sponsored Covert Warfare, Andropov was the chief architect of the international terrorist network that extended throughout the Communist world. During the Cold War era, Cuba, Syria, Romania, Bulgaria, and other Soviet Bloc state sponsors of terrorism were UN member states in good standing, and regularly used the General Assembly as a forum to denounce the United States and the capitalist West.

Middle Eastern terrorist states, all of which are oppressive dictatorships, have also found a comfortable home in the United Nations. Yasser Arafat (top left, conferring with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro) heads the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which includes American diplomats, Israeli civilians, and moderate Palestinian Arabs among its targeted victims. During the 1980s, the Soviet-sponsored regime of Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein (top right) conducted chemical warfare against its own population without provoking the UN's disapproval. Libyan ruler Muammar Qaddafi (bottom right) has never drawn UN censure for his diplomatic and military support for terrorism, which has included offering weapons and a safe haven to the terrorists who massacred Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The Iranian regime currently headed by Mohammad Khatami (bottom left) is another UN-approved terrorist state. All of these regimes have ratified numerous UN conventions outlawing crimes against humanity, yet none has been held accountable for violating them.

Tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen died during the Korean War (above right), a conflict waged under UN authority. Nearly one million Koreans were killed in the war as well (above left). Americans fought and bled to halt the expansion of Communism while the UN continued to include Communist States within its ranks. The Vietnam War (right), which claimed the lives of 50,000 Americans, was another no-win war fought under the banner of the UN's South East Asia Treaty Organization. The 1991 UN-led Gulf War (below) was supposedly fought to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's aggression. Hussein's oppressive regime was allowed to remain in power, and UN-imposed sanctions have taken the lives of countless Iraqi civilians -- including children -- who have died from starvation and disease.

The UN's plan for "global peace" calls for the organization to have a standing army of "peacekeepers" to prevent armed conflict and mass slaughter. But a UN "peacekeeping" mission failed to stop the 1994 Rwandan genocide (top right), despite detailed advance warnings from the UN's on-site military commander. The UN did nothing to prevent the Cambodian genocide (inset); in fact, the Communist leaders who conducted that genocide were never condemned by the General Assembly. And UN "peacekeepers" have committed atrocities themselves in Somalia, where they tortured and killed Shidane Arone (below), and elsewhere. Rather than bringing peace, UN military missions have become exercises in oppression as "peacekeepers" resort to police state measures to control civilian unrest (bottom right).

If the world seeks the true peace that can only come from the triumph of freedom and justice, it must start by dismantling the United Nations.