Context needed in stories on the UN

Re Three stories on the United Nations, Sept. 21 While coverage of the UN is rare and commendable, the three stories on this page omit significant context.

The one on the “apocalyptic” threat of superbugs leaves out the role of the industrial and pharmaceutical companies in controlling the global food and antibiotic complex and of the many negligent regulatory bodies that have long known about irresponsible and dangerous antibiotic use.

Another story is about Barack Obama pushing for “better global co-operation.” Yet the U.S. leads in deporting and incarcerating refugees and in expanding nuclear weapons production and threat of first-strike use of these weapons of mass destruction (i.e. human extinction).

While Obama is “unabashed” in citing the Russian threat, there is no word about America’s 1,000 overseas military bases, its military domination of space, and U.S./NATO encirclement of Russia and China.

In the third article, Justin Trudeau admirably calls for “diversity and in- clusiveness.” Yet within the UN, Canada is shamefully and dangerously one of the few non-nuclear-weapons countries to oppose a ban on nuclear weapons.

This all looks like runaway immorality and disregard for the majority in a world where 60 per cent of the population lives in extreme poverty, according to the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

Nuclear weapons, military expansion and the agro-pharmaceutical-industrial complex are certainly not good for the world population.

The UN and elected leaders fail vis-àvis the majority world. Judith Deutsch, Toronto