UN General Assembly
2008

fallout for global polarization is symptomatic of, and underscores, the extremely fragile security environment that prevails in our troubled world today. To add to that gloomy mix, the world is also witnessing volatile and speculative fluctuations in the price of fuel oil, an unprecedented hike in food prices and a recent spate of insolvency of financial corporations that in combination are driving the global economy towards recession. Rapid climatic changes resulting from progressive environmental degradation and the resulting spell of more frequent floods and droughts, as well as pandemics that are affecting millions of people, complete the grid of the immense challenges that our global community is facing today. These multifaceted problems stem from multiple causes. At the same time, it cannot be denied that many of those problems have been exacerbated, if not instigated, by the misguided and domineering policies of the United States Government. Indeed, the fingerprints of the sole super-Power are discernible in most of the conflict situations that are raging in many parts of our globe, with the deleterious economic, financial and humanitarian ramifications that they